Quotes About Music

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

I really wanna work with Kanye West. He's one of the few people I haven't got to work with yet that I really wanted to.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one.

I function as a channel from which music emerges from the chaos of noise.

You can work on the saxophone alone, but ultimately you must perform with others.

Learning to play is mostly about learning to hear, and learning to really listen deeply to sound in a musical way is a lifetime's worth of work.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I deny that either singers or conductors can "create" or work creatively - this, as I have always said, is a conception that leads to the abyss.

The simplest things in music are the ones that count. The simplest thing are, of course, also the most difficult to achieve and take years of work.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Music is the journey. You never arrive in music; the work is never over.

Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music.

I'm a big fan of TIËSTO, and SWEDISH HOUSE MAFIA are awesome. I absolutely want to work with them.

It used to be that Nashville would work to develop promising artists.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.

Music is so powerful, it needs to be used for some kind of redeeming work. To lift peoples spirits, to lift their souls.

Lessons didn't really work out for me, so I went to the old school, listening to records and learning what I wanted to learn.

I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.