Quotes About Music

As a kid, I dreamed of being nominated for a Grammy.

I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.

I got an email saying we were nominated for a Grammy, and I instantly thought it was a joke. So I started Googling the nominees, and there we were!

I want to be nominated for Grammys.

Getting a Grammy nomination for 'Brooklyn' meant a lot, especially because, as an album, it was one that was very personal to me but also one that I self-produced and had gone outside the label.

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.

Of all the artists on Death Row, none of them went bankrupt.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

No, I see it as meaning very little at the moment because none of the groups are about anything.

The modern stuff, I can take it or leave it. I like its danceability, but the DJs talk a lot of nonsense.

I liked singing, but I didn't like all the politics and nonsense that went with it.

Music is my life. I love doing it, so I just do it nonstop all day. And with dancing, I wanted to put on a show for people. I don't want to just be sitting there doing nothing, so that's when I started to dance.

I started playing guitar when I was nine and just fell in love with that - I've been playing nonstop ever since.

We've done shows - we'll be in Dublin, and it will be nonstop pandemonium to the point where you think the crowd is going to implode, because they're making so much noise and they're so excited.

It's nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment.

I do spend time trying to find good melodies, and I try to remember them when I do discover them. But also it's mostly intuitive; I noodle around with the line until it sounds and feels right.

I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.

The rise of the iPod meant that digital music became the norm, It's sad, but you can still find the real stuff out there if you look for it!

As much as we all love playing live, it's not normal to be on the road all the time, to have no home.

If you want break it down, rock and roll is about saying what you can't say in normal life to girls, so you have to say it in songs.

I look forward the day that I could work on my farm, create music, write books, and be with the wife and kids around the clock - and live a normal life.

Most musicians are normal people who want to hang out and are really down to earth.

I am a very normal person who likes to meet people, read, watch movies, and listen to music.