Quotes About Music

I think that, just like the art scene and the music scene is exploding in LA - I mean, let's face it: if you want to be an artist you cannot live in New York anymore because it is too expensive…

Sometimes you sing songs about the way you want to feel more than the way you actually do feel.

I'm not planning what I listen to, except when I think the music can guide me to some emotional place I want to be reminded of.

For me, music is sort of the art that I can't incorporate into my person the way I want to.

I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs.

Some of my influences are black gospel artists so I definitely want to do a soul-gospel type thing.

I have to go back to vinyl every once in awhile, even if my kids don't want to hear it. I'm much more likely to be listening to Wilco or the Avett Brothers.

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path.

Jazz is not the format where I want to stay, but it really is a starting point for me.

I don't fake my music. If I want to be known for anything it's for creating honest music. Noting is fake or will ever be fake about the lyrics and pain in my music. My music I live it.

The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside.

I make music as good as possible, but I do reference cultural icons, because I want my music to be a time capsule of 2007.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock...whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.

I'm an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can't.

I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.

I became this guy that does drum programming, and I don't want to be that guy anymore. I don't want to sit in front of my computer for 18 hours programming 16 bars of music.

If there's a certain song that I want to reach a certain person or certain type of person, that's when I play it for people.

I've never really played golf. With the sax, I learned technique well enough so that it feels like part of my body, and I just express myself. That's where I want to get in golf.

You're not going out there to make a living out of it by selling records. You want acclaim and you want to know people are listening.

I guess now I view music as my career. I want to do it forever, regardless of whether or not it's my means of living.