Quotes About Music

I have such a personal life history with R&B - it's the first music I remember hearing, and it feels like a family tradition.

One of my favorites is one called 'Rory's Radio' that I wrote about my brother Jeff's best friend growing up - his name was Rory Dunigan. I dedicated my first record to my brother, who got killed in a car accident in 1999, and I really didn't have any songs on the first album about him, nothing on a personal note.

Any composer needs opportunities, but now these chances are based on personal relationships, and not on talent alone. For that, you must keep calling directors and keep them happy. So, PR plays a major part now, more than talent or success.

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.

I am working on music and telling my personal story and sharing my talent on stage.

Your story, background, the music you listen to, the emotions you feel, your lifestyle, goals - all of this is your personal style.

I'm not a big fan of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's just a personal thing, not an ego thing.

I think that the best part of music is when it comes from a real place and has an ability to kind of connect on a much larger scale. It no longer is a personal thing, it becomes everyone else's thing as well.

I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

I really don't do concept stuff very well. If I'm sitting thinking about what kind of song I want to write, within a few minutes, I'm kind of bored. It's just a personal thing for me.

Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

The thing is that, they all had real strong personalities and real distinct identities, and I don't find most of the groups that are coming out now really do.

You can tell a lot about your cooks' personalities by their music collection. I personally have such an eclectic collection, partly due to the combining of music libraries with girlfriends past.

Due to irresolvable personality conflicts as well as musical differences, I am permanently leaving the band Audioslave. I wish the other three members nothing but the best in all of their future endeavours.

I'm a chameleon. That's my personality in the band.

The music is the thing. I am not writing for critics; I don't want to become a personality.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

Honestly, I want to make more music for the women. I rather have a show full of girls, but I still gotta talk about what I be personally going through, what I've gone through, and what the homies go through.

The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.

I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.