Quotes About Music

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later.

Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the 'given' material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control.

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

People in the music business say don't make too many records because they'll compete against one another.

It's called the music business. We've all gone into it 'cause we love the music, and a lot of people end up with nothing at the end of the day, after they've done all of this great music, 'cause they never learned any of the business side.

I love the music business, but I have no ambition to keep on playing.

I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change.

Miley Cyrus, like all of us, needs to be loved. We all come from complicated parents... I understand her, and I love her, and I think things will be different with her. But you know, in the music business, sometimes you have to shock a little.

There are a lot of things that are part of the music business that I'm very bad at. Organization, being on time - the stuff you need in order to function in the regular world.

The Philadelphia/New York world of the music business is a tough place to be.

For me, a lot of my fondest memories of being in the music business were being in the studio with The Doobs and being part of that organization and being a part of that music.

I've always felt like the Forrest Gump of the music business. I've been fortunate to work with a lot of great people.

I got very bored with the music business.

I suppose we don't know that much about how the music business operates in the U.K., but from what I've heard, it's a pretty big deal.

I think probably my main advice to new artists is if you want to be in the music business, you need to be dang serious about it because it's a rough business.

People are people, and I get a bit annoyed that the music business only focuses in on the big metropolises. I find that people that don't live in big cities are just as likely to enjoy music as people that do live in big cities.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

No, I mean we'd all definitely involved in the music business someway or another, because we're all living with it, and in it, and also we've got all sorts of things we would like to do.

My family wasn't in the music business, but they loved music.

A lot of people in the music business are a bit doom and gloom, People say it's probably easier to write sad songs than it is to write happy ones, so that's maybe why. I just wanted to be a bit positive about things rather than always being negative.

It's important to know the ins and outs of the music business, but you can also dive too deeply into it and forget that you're really here to make music.

The music business, a lot of times, has a big finesse mentality to it.

Our goal is to continue to be a global consolidator of the live music business.

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.