Music Quotes

Music is a huge part of my life, I enjoy every genre of music from jazz to country, and I even get down with a bit of hip hop.

A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music.

Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

My parents were both high-school music teachers.

My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

Very few opera singers in history have been able to cross into popular music.

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.

As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.

Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.

In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.

Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.

Part of me is probably more conservative than people realise. I like my old string quartets, I don't like music that's trippy for trippy's sake.

In 2008, I was more just thinking about using the touchscreen for writing the songs. From there I started thinking about how I visualised music.

Being a musician is very easy. My house is full of musical instruments. There's a lot of music, always.

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world.

The music business doesn't interest me anymore.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I always thought martial arts was the most modern choreography we could have right now, and I always wanted to put it to music.

Me, I've concentrated on music pretty much to the exclusion of other things.

The music is all. People should die for it. People are dying for everything else, so why not the music?

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.

I don't think anybody is anybody else's moral compass. Maybe listening to my music is not the best idea if you live a very constricted life. Or maybe it is.

I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at.

I was a pretty insecure kid, didn't have a lot of friends, and was picked on a lot, and music gave me confidence.

I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else.