Quotes About Music

I'm into sounds, man.

There's certain little sounds that I just like to hear.

I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.

Electronic music used pure sounds, completely calibrated. You had to think digitally, as it were, in a way that allowed you to extend serial ideas into other parameters through technology.

Obviously, a bass sounds like a bass and a guitar sounds like a guitar, but the way you play the guitar reflects your personality.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

The radio makes hideous sounds.

I'd always been fascinated by death, which sounds so morbid. Especially being a woman trying to make music, I think there's a sense that you're never young enough, or your career is going to end soon.

Music is about people for me. It's not about sounds. It's about people; it's about putting people into challenging situations. And for me, challenges are opportunities.

That's why so much of the music today sounds so much alike, because there's no in-between. So it's kind of nice to still turn some buttons every now and then.

It sounds a cliche but when I'm on stage I'm at my most relaxed, I feel most like myself. When I have the music and the costumes and everyone else around me, that's when I feel most free.

There's always room for your hard-core country songs, and that will always shine through, and I'll always have those on my albums. And then I'll have fun stuff that gets people up and dancing that some people may want to say, 'Well that sounds real pop-y!' but I don't really think it does, I just think it's what's going on.

I enjoy working with complicated equipment. A lot of my things started just with a rhythm box, but I feed it through so many things that what comes out sounds very complex and rich.

Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.

You can get so many sounds out of one record. Every record can be used in some way.

For me, it doesn't matter how difficult something is, it doesn't matter how impressive it is, it's what sounds best that really counts.

Hip Nip just sounds groovy. A drummer laid it on me.

I think Stills has been playing better than ever. I know a lot of it sounds self-serving, but he truly has.

All rock musicians are deaf... Or insensitive to mellow sounds.

With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song... somebody will come in with a hook and a lot of times they come out with something that sounds a little crafty.