Quotes About Music

I look up to Andrea Boccelli and Sarah Brightman. The best part about 'America's Got Talent' was performing with her!

I've been playing music since I was 12. I love performing live.

I'm from the Bronx, so I am looking forward to performing before my homies. I'll keep it live in the house.

My mom actually had a band called Six Pack - even though there were seven of them - who went around Chicago performing popular songs. Her voice was like Gladys Knight mixed with Aretha Franklin.

I like performing live more than anything. I get a little bit afraid in the studio.

I always loved performing and being on stage.

I missed singing. I missed performing in a nightclub.

I've always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That's what keeps me going.

I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.

I'm not going to play gigs as Jamie xx. I'm just going to DJ. I'm not comfortable performing my songs on a stage. It's not something I think I'm particularly good at.

When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.

Usually, when we're performing 'What About Your Friends' or 'Waterfalls' comes on, they all know the dance. It's like a sea of TLC dancers in the audience! It's so beautiful to see. I just love it so much.

I just get so hype - I love performing. I love performing whether someone's there or someone isn't there.

When I was younger, I used to love the idea of writing songs and performing them live. But that was all I thought about. I didn't think about people getting to know my face.

I started performing in college, but I wasn't writing a lot.

Once I was done making my album 'Cry Baby,' I knew I wanted to make a vintage-inspired baby bottle perfume.

Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system.

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect.

My thing is music, period.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

When you are a real artist who is serious about your craft, you love good music. Period.

Melody is the single most important thing to any song, period. I don't care what anybody says, it trumps everything. Not because that's my opinion but because I think it's actually indisputable fact. The human brain retains melody easier than it retains words. It's that simple.

My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.

For me, my favourite music was things like The Bee Gees, ABBA and 'The White Album.' The 70s is the period that I love more than anything.