Music Quotes

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'The View,' and I've heard nice things about being able to do that. I really haven't felt any negativity toward me or my music.

I like all kinds of music. I listen to Abigail Washburn, the Punch Brothers, and Marc Johnson, the great clawhammer player. I also listen a lot to Sirius Radio, there's a lot of bluegrass there.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I happened to come along in the music business when there was no trend.

I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun.

A country is made not by policy alone, but by its music, its entertainment shows, all of it.

Music is the language of the heart, and conservatives always screw it up.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged.

I loved the last album, and it was one hundred percent me. But this is like me two years later, who understands a little bit more about music and understands a little bit more about making an album. I wrote a lot more.

But the idea of taking things and mixing them together is what I do in my music. I take hip-hop, R&B, pop, dance, funk and soul and mix it all together to get my own sound.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Music is like a huge release of tension.

I don't play the kind of music that works in a football stadium.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

It's a real wrenching thing to go from being a private person to being a public person, especially when you're being autobiographical. But it's what everyone wants - to get everyone's attention, to have your music make a living for you, to be validated in that way.

Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.

Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark.

I love live music and I love to see people's faces when I'm performing.

Singing really is acting. In a lot of ways, it's much more personal. I love music, and being able to work on that is amazing.

As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.

Music is the soundtrack to the crappy movie that is my life.

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

I believe music should reflect yourself in some way and not just yourself at the given time. I feel that when you die or when you're going, someone's supposed to listen to that music and know everything about you. And I just try to get that across.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.