Quotes About Music

Only Freddie Mercury could do Freddie Mercury. He was absolutely brilliant - I loved him to pieces, and I had a great deal of respect for him.

Freddie Mercury wrote songs that were real and true.

You can't beat Freddie Mercury. He was a mad man in the best sense possible.

Freddie Mercury inspired me when I was young.

I always see my music for its rewards rather than its awards. But I always thought if there was one award I'd want to win, it would be the Mercury.

I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.

People have been telling me for years that I sound like Freddie Mercury.

Freddie Mercury made a lot of sense to me even though I didn't understand the lyrics.

Music is an essential part of any film, but when it comes to Mercury' it actually became a medium of communication.

My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.

Even before we had a band, the merging of music and movies just seemed so perfect.

Gone are the days when the merit of a song was measured by the success of the movie.

I really have a lot of respect for music, the art form of music. It's my whole life. I don't care about any of that other stuff. And I have always felt that way. I'll build a career on my own merits, my own hard work and nothing else.

I first fell in love with music when I was five years old because of 'Annie.' And then 'The Little Mermaid' really made me want to start singing. And then the fierce, amazing women of the '90s - Alanis Morrissette, Courtney Love, Tori Amos, Ani Difranco, Paula Cole, Patty Griffin - made me want to start writing.

Meryl's Donna embodied the spirit of ABBA and 'Mamma Mia!' in the first film.

My mother never saw any of my films until she was in her late 80s, and that was 'Music of the Heart' with Meryl Streep.

Play the pentatonic blues scale, just for fret- and pick-hand dexterity and to mesh them both together.

If I had a walk-up song in 2019, it would be 'Baby Shark.' It's haunting. It's mesmerizing. It's catchy.

It's quite fun to mess with the human voice. It's quite special in the sense that the voice is the #1 instrument that we can connect with; it doesn't sound too alien. I think that's the key is to find the line between sounding human and sounding robotic. That's an area that I like to explore a lot.

I'm not going to play lead guitar in a concert hall full of people, because I'm going to mess up a lot.

Music industry's a fragmented mess.

I'm very conscious that I want the dance audience to respond and respect what I'm doing, so I'm always very true to the music and I honour the music in the way I see it - I don't mess around with the music.

He was like a real dad, you know. We used to sit down with guitars and mess around.