Quotes About Music

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

I really liked the Seattle movement.

I mean, the shoe - there is a music to it, there is attitude, there is sound, it's a movement. Clothes - it's a different story. There are a million things I'd rather do before designing clothes: directing, landscaping.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

I love movement. I love moshing.

We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.

Early music in all kinds of movements is always a mixture of innocence and ambition.

It's fine with me if people want to applaud between movements of a concerto. It doesn't bother me - it's part of performance experience.

Give me anything that moves my heart, that gives me goosebumps.

Me personally, I think all the barriers that are put up between genres are so easily broken. People just love music that moves them.

A song isn't finished until it's played live, and then it moves on.

In the beginning, we might have been focused on totally just music and being famous, just wanting to have fame and make hot music, but as we got older, we had to understand that this is a business and that our moves need to be calculated.

I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.

It's hard to explain music when it goes in your gut and makes left and right and turns and moves you and resonates with you.

Just the words and melody - that's what moves your emotions.

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

I've listened to a lot of outside stuff and just haven't really heard anything that moves me. I don't know if I'm getting old and crotchety or what.

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

If it's got the feeling, if the music moves you or not, it doesn't matter what the genre is to me.

I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.

I love having a major label behind me. Independent was really great to start off, as and I made some really big moves and gained a lot of fans.

I'm just grateful. I'm grateful for my family, my wife, and our health. I'm grateful to be in a band of brothers that I love so, so, so much. I'm grateful that this magical combination of dudes makes music that people like and moves them.

The most important thing I can say is to make music that moves you. Don't try and chase what's on the radio or what you think people want to hear.

That's exactly why I came into music in the first place: to be inspired by what I hear to make it something else, to make it my own. That's how culture, creativity, moves, isn't it?