Quotes About Music

My family was always musically inclined.

Chick Corea was a great influence on me, musically, as I was growing up.

I think it's important for fans to know that but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too.

You know, I'm really not that competent at describing things musically.

Reuniting with my brothers musically has been really incredible.

Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

Writing a song to be a single is hard, and I don't like to focus on that because you can get caught up in making something just terrible, which is really easy to do if you're focused on making it a single. It's more fun when you focus on what excites you musically.

I'm a huge Cure fan. I love the Cure. The scales being tipped to when they weren't on a major label compared to when they were seems pretty meaningless. I had the good fortune of having them go before me and seeing their careers, musically at least, lose something. Like a novel written by a dead hand.

It seems like everything I do musically I tend to lose a few fans and gain a few fans, and it all kind of evens out.

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men.

When you spend two to three years working on an album that I feel very happy with the end result, there is nothing I would change. Musically, I have achieved what I set out to do.

I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.

I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.

I always communicate musically. I want my band not only to learn the form and feel of the song by ear, like I do, but also have the freedom to contribute.

My dad has actually really influenced me musically. I have a weird love for '80s and '90s music. A lot of people are like, 'Are you serious? It's so lame.' But my dad always plays that in the car whenever we're together.

I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.

I always have to just be myself. Anything else, I'm not happy, and it comes out musically.

Once I write something, I never try to write that same style again, because I get very schizophrenic musically.

Everything musically, for me, there's two kinds of music. There's Prince and Jimi Hendrix and then Miles Davis and everything filters through that.

Twenty-fourteen is all about growth musically and new agendas.

Reggeton has changed very much, musically. It has evolved. The artists have also evolved.

Whether lyrically or musically, it reaches in there and grabs your soul. That's the stuff I gravitate toward.