Quotes About Music

See, 'Bad and Boujee' was really a ladies' record. It made all of them want to stand up a little more and feel a little better about themselves.

God has allowed me through the BSB to minister in a positive way, encouraging people to stand up for what they believe.

We're losing the whole point: music is not to impress people, music has to stand up on its own and guitar solos are nothing to do with it.

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

I don't know if I have enough guts to do a whole standard jazz record.

Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard repertoire 30 years from now.

Music is my number one, it's my life, it's my everything. I'm enjoying challenging myself; I want to raise the bar and set a new standard for Australian pop artists.

'Hallelujah' is going to be a standard that our grandkids, our great-great grandkids will learn to sing in church. It's one of those really, really special songs.

I've grown up on Bob Dylan and all that, but there was a certain standard set up by people before 1955.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

I've been working on something, just some jazz, relaxed stuff. It will be standard, just piano and voice. It started out as a fun project for me though, I'm still not sure about releasing it.

In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.

I miss the standard of the New York Philharmonic's playing very much. It has certainly been a high point in my life.

Most people in the U.K. discovered me playing a standard on Parkinson. In America, it was on VH1 singing an original called 'All At Sea,' which is a contemporary pop song. So the people that know me there tend to think of me in the singer/songwriter category.

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.

It's rather nice to think that a song such as 'What Kind of Fool Am I?' is a standard that will be around for many, many years.

I've just always been around great songwriters. To me, they were the standard.

Somebody approached me about working with Michael Jackson, and I did say no because I like working with new artists or people that I've worked with in the past. I can develop them from the ground up. There's no set standard that I have to live up to or anything like that.

The selections on 'Daily Practice' are all what I consider standard rock songs that have been absolutely essential to keeping me alive.

I look back at Ella Fitzgerald and Sarah Vaughan, and especially Betty Carter, whom I admire the most, and I say, OK, they set a standard of excellence. I listen to them not for what they are doing, but to study where they are coming from because, for me, jazz is life experience.

I'm definitely someone who's really picky about who I work with and how I want things to go, because I have a high standard of integrity for my music. I want it to be genuine.

I think there's something that feels so good about a 1-4-5 chord progression. It's a very standard chord progression, and it just feels good to the ears.