Music Quotes

Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying.

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the '70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the '80s, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the '90s. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'

Country music is about new love and it's about old love.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear.

Being honest is my job. That's what music is for me.

I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.

Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good.

As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion.

I don't really listen to music.

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music.

It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that's what makes them extraordinary.

Rock music is niche.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band.

I've never turned my back on country music.