Music Quotes

I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.

I can't re-define music every week!

Well I was always a hustler... I ran numbers; I wasn't a stick up kid, but I was a fence for them. I used to sell weed; and was kicked out of Music and Art for that.

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.

A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music.

Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do.

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life.

Because of the wealth of fine music spread through the film, working on it held all the fun and excitement of attending a great concert.

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

To say that an artist sells out means that an artist is making a conscious choice to compromise his music, to to weaken his music for the sake of commercial gain.

I really believe in finding new ways to distribute my music.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.

Digital downloading of music has affected us all in adverse ways.

I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music.

The thing is, there are so many different ways to make music these days with virtual instruments, software applications, physical instruments, and computer programs.

I think there are so many ways to become interested in music. I believe signs of sustained interest gives a sense of the right time. Music, if thought of as a language, would perhaps indicate that as early as possible is not so bad. I do believe that a really nurturing first teacher that makes the child love something is crucial.

Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music.

They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers.

When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again.