Quotes About Music

Napster was a black market for music. Ninety-nine per cent of the music that people were downloading was illegal because they didn't have the rights for it.

One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

We were concerned with having good songs, not just songs that go two hundred miles per hour.

I don't sit down to write a song, per se.

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

I don't practice per se. I learned to play on my own, taught myself how to play. I've never really had a lesson, and I don't read music. So all the stuff that I do doesn't come from the normal set of disciplines that they teach you where you sit down and run through scales for a particular number of minutes a day.

Every project might only sell like 30 to 50,000, but I mean, I'm getting seven, eight dollars every CD. I make more money per record than an artist on a major label - I can definitely say that.

I don't really admire musicianship per se - as is obvious from my own playing.

I'd say 99 per cent of the time I write on my own, just with my guitar, and then it's trying to figure out what it needs in a production sense.

I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.

It's a dog-eat-dog world when it comes to music and how people perceive it.

We always talk about our kids being a great way to judge whether it's a hit song because there's something very basic about the way they perceive the music that I think needs to be there if it's gonna be a hit.

Everything I do is collaborative. It's just my way. I'm really very interested in how the other musicians perceive the song.

People perceive opera and classical as elitist - I disagree. I've always tried to mix the two, make it more accessible.

Making music is an emotional thing. And when you're on a video shoot with 50 people there, you have to somehow, in a non-emotional way, say what you want and not feel guilty for it. And that takes growing up and that takes... not caring how people perceive you as much. And it just takes experience, I think.

I'm very grateful that anyone takes the time to read what I write, coming from people perceive to be exclusively a musical background and having no traditional schooling in writing.

Your understanding of music depends on your capacity to perceive it.

I've learned a lot about myself through my music and the way people perceive it, and the goal is for the success not to change me.

We were perceived as a post-grunge band.

I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household.

Sometimes a break-up song is perceived as that because that's what the person who's hearing it needs.