Quotes About Music

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.

I took piano lessons when I was 6. I didn't want to go on with it. I don't remember being moved by a piece of music.

The lesson there is that there's no hiding the sound of a band that is bored with its own music. Whatever it takes to create the sound of excitement, that's what you want to do.

I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

I do write my own music, and I also have been doing a lot of non-Beatle covers, just singing whatever I want to sing, the way I want to sing. But it can be hard to find the time to do that.

As much as I remember, I just thought, I want to sing a song that starts normal and ends crazy.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.

I think that to a great degree, reggae companies have become very corporate and so maybe some don't have that freedom to say whatever they want to say.

I'm not stupid enough to want to be famous. But I would like to be able to earn a living playing music.

The listener has a responsibility that not everyone wants to take, especially if you are putting on the new Top 40 record.

When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

When I hear that high-pitched sound of all those people screaming together, it's like, I want to get on stage right now. It's the most amazing feeling.

I think I'd like to see CDs disappear. Too much plastic crap lying around. If I want some music these days, I'm gonna either get as MP3s or on vinyl.

You play the one song that people want to hear the most every night, and for every audience that's a special thing. And usually that translates back to you.

For a long time I was trying to be poppier and younger. I didn't want to be on public radio or do any of that stuff for older people. Then I realized that that is exactly what I listen to.

Because some stories end, but old stories go on, and you gotta dance to the music if you want to stay ahead

I focus a lot on my voice because I want it to be an instrument as well. I want my voice to add color.

We always try to encourage more songs sung by Kim, because there are always requests for it. I certainly don't want to ball hog all the singing.

I think that most people who write about music just want to fill some paper. They're not really interested in getting to the heart of something. Otherwise, they wouldn't write what they write.

Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

Maybe when it comes to my music, or my performances, I'm a little more aggressive because I want everything to be perfect. But not in normal, day-to-day life.