Quotes About Music

You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.

The Doobie Brothers' 'What a Fool Believes' makes me want to move. And I still haven't gotten over the Macarena. Who has?

Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement "Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music.

I picked and co-wrote the songs that if I was a guy who would be spending my hard-earned money buying an album I would want to hear.

yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music

It's nice to really have the freedom to write what I want.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

For me as a solo artist, I never want to be a nostalgia act.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

It's weird, man. I've had a weird life, and I don't want to end up on the dole. I'm fed up with the plumbing. And I think it would be good to be a little pop star again.

A lot of times I wind up playing songs like (Alice in Chains') "Down in a Hole" that make me scream at the top of my lungs if I want to get frustration out from a bad day.

Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.

Hey, little dolly with the blue jeans on, I want to ramrod with you, honey, 'til half past dawn.

With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

A lot of people said to me, 'Enough with the guest vocalists for a while. We want to hear the Mexican play the guitar!'

As a dancer, I love music that makes me want to move.

I've realized that I have a lot of different loves, and I want to pursue writing, but I can never divorce myself from music.

I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

A lot of people would have loved me to keep singing... You come to a point where you have sung, more or less... your whole repertoire and you want to get down to the job of living.

One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out

If certain songs become popular enough to the point where I'll be playing them the rest of my life, I don't want them all to dwell on the same down moment that I'll have to keep reliving.

I really wish I could sing so I could front a band, because that would be a dream come true, totally. I want to sing. Can't do it though.

We're putting a lot of pressure on ourselves for this second album and so we want to make it as great as we possibly can.