Quotes About Music

It's the faster bands that made me want to play guitar, bands like The Jam.

Nobody wants to experience sad events but people like to listen to sad songs. That's the beauty of music.

I'm the only member of the team that seeks to do pop music. I want to do music that anyone can like and enjoy.

When I die I intend to take my music with me. I don't know what's out there, but I want to make sure it's in my key.

I never wanted to play guitar when I was younger. I wanted to be a drummer because everybody plays guitar, and I didn't want to do what everybody else wanted to do.

I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.

If you're in a bar and a certain song comes on and the vibe is just different, it evokes the kinds of things that you want to feel, and if music can do that it's a very special thing.

Listening to Evanescence makes me want to break up with a girl in real time as a giant antique hourglass falls to the floor in slow motion.

I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Newspapers and magazines didn't want pictures of musicians behaving badly back then. Now, because of the Internet, that's all the media wants.

Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves.

Music was my friend when I was a teenager, and I would inhabit and take comfort in lyrics. That's how I want to write.

As a personality, I'm not one that likes to be center stage. It's not about me, it's about the music. I just want people to listen.

There's homophobia in every corner and pocket of this world but at the core you just love someone and want to make mixed tapes for them.

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

Everything that I am or will ever be is in the music. If you want to know me, just listen.

Records used to be documents, but now record companies want product.

My Mother set me on the right track, Marty Robbins made me want to write songs, and Jesus Christ did the rest.

Some of my biggest moments have been in jam sessions, but I don't want to talk about them. There were always other people involved.

Nobody wants to hear Metallica at lunchtime.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I learned drumming as a second instrument because I didn't want to sing. Sometimes I would quite like to be left in the back, in the darkness by myself.

I'm trying to get music ideas that come and keep them alive. It's like carrying water in your hands. I want to keep it all, and sometimes by the time you get to the studio you have nothing.

In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.