Quotes About Music

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

I remember writing 'All I Want Is You' and hoping it would get me out of trouble. I haven't stopped writing songs or getting into trouble since.

Being a mathematical genius doesn't do you any favors as far as having something to say in music. You see every style as equal, and you want complicated music to devour.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

I love 'Last Friday Night' by Katy Perry almost as much as 'Karma Police', and if you want to straddle that line, you have to take the slings and arrows.

I still have my eyes on the prize: I want to be that old lady onstage shaking her hips and singing her greatest hits.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

What made me want to become a recording artist; I was the first artist that was repeatedly asked by a label to record with them. That label was Def Jam Records.

I pretty much draw the line when people want you to do original music for commercials.

I don't feel like we're setting ourselves up to be exclusive. I don't want to set up an attitude where we're telling people 'You can't listen to our music if you don't have a college degree.

I had piano lessons when I was younger, but I quit because I didn't want to sit and learn the scales.

If there's ever a kid out there that can't afford to buy the music, I still want them to hear it, and hopefully they'll go to the show, or buy a T-shirt from the band. That's the idea.

I believe that vinyl will outlast CDs. There's no reason for it, but it stays around because there are still people that want them.

Music becomes very personal. When you marry a message you want to send out into the world with good music, all of a sudden you have a very potent way of delivering your message.

I think people just want to hear good songs and I just want to keep getting better as a writer so that I can deliver good songs.

I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

The music, I think, is just as important as the lyrics; it portrays the emotion of the song. I play the kind of music that I want to listen to.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to do a big radio country album.

For every Foo Fighters record, we've had two or three beautiful, acoustic-based songs, but they never usually make their way to the record, because we want to make rock records.

Usually, when Nirvana made music, there wasn't a lot of conversation. We wanted everything to be surreal. We didn't want to have some contrived composition.