Quotes About Music

The world's music is at our fingertips, so if we like music, we kind of owe it to ourselves to check in with all of that.

James Brown died owing me $50,000. But I loved James Brown.

The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'

Gone are the days when Virgin Records was owned by Richard Branson, a fan of music. Now they're all owned by some guy who bought it off some guy who bought it off some guy who wants a return on his investment.

Record covers still inspire me in terms of clothes, some bands just look sharp. But I still wear stuff I owned when I was 16.

We owned the mixtape game, and every mixtape we put out was like an album.

People told me that Miley's '23' wasn't hip-hop. Let me tell you, she went in and owned that track.

I grew up singing in church. My family owned funeral homes so I would sing for the occasional funeral, as well.

'Under My Skin' was the first CD I ever owned.

The first guitar I ever owned was a Kay SG copy. That cost like $35. Man, that was a terrible guitar.

I'm an acoustic guitar owner - in the sense that I own them, and they sit at my house, and I never play them.

When I first played at the Apollo, the owner didn't even know who Sharon Jones was. The Apollo had never seen so many white people coming uptown.

There was a lot of freedom, so bands in those days did not have to play for the public. They played for club owners that enjoyed music. You know, what happened - there was a lot of clubs that had bebop music or different forms of music. It was great for musicians.

When you find new genres of music, you take ownership of them.

I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.

I love the concept of albums, and I love owning albums.

The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.

I think the rock audience still likes to have a physical product. The demand for owning a physical copy is still there.

I'm still dancing - my mum owns a dance company - but I felt like there was more freedom in the music industry. You can take your vision and really bring it to life no matter what, because it's just you.

No one listens to CDs anymore. Who even owns a CD? I used to bring my CDs to shows, and it was, like, a guarantee that everyone would buy one. Nope! Not anymore.

The business of music. You know, it's an oxymoron in a sense. It's like the two things. Although we both need each other, they really don't go together.

My hours get kinda backwards. Most of the time, we're basing out of one town, flying out, doing the show, then flying back. And it's a pace that no one would believe, really. Unless you've done it, you really can't understand what it is. And if you're not really experienced and know how to do it, you will fall.