Quotes About Music

But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.

I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.

I find that music makes people just sit and listen, firstly. Then, they seem to interpret their own emotions with the music and it makes them ponder their own life a lot. And then they start to question: Am I happy in my work? Am I happy in my relationships? What am I striving for?

Listen to the Beatles' 'Things We Said Today.' Ringo Starr does not play a fill in the entire song. It doesn't need it. 'A Day In the Life' has gorgeous fills, but there, the song needs it. When I play on any record, I'm striving to get where Ringo is. You play what doesn't take you out of the song.

I just think that with music, it's kind of like life, and so the people you work with, you generally develop a relationship. You don't have to try to explain things. You just know. It's like you're in the band together and striving for the same goal.

I'm not striving for fame, that's for sure. I don't particularly like the idea of celebrity. I would like to be successful with my music, so I realise that there's a balance to be made there.

Forget about musical credibility. I think, unless you're Radiohead or whatever, it's pointless striving for that. What I would like is some respect.

Striving to make music that empowers people as opposed to making them feel like they're being beaten down every single day is so important.

Take 'The Stroke,' for instance. Plenty of people saw sexual connotations in that song but to me it was about what goes on in the business world.

We discovered there were three very specific ways of being in the Strokes. One was in the studio, one was in the face of the media and the other was playing shows.

I'm very grateful for being in this band, but there are only five people who know what it's like to be in the Strokes. I'm part of 'them,' but I can see people trying to separate me out from the band's reputation.

The Strokes, you bond when you're 18, and you're friends. The feeling's different. When all of us get into a room, we feel like the same people from before. We weren't anybody; we were just hanging out. It's hard to understand if you're not in a band. You're one-fifth.

I always want to make Strokes records and play Strokes shows.

I think the best post-breakup album is The Strokes' first album. It's just fun.

The Strokes are one of my favorite bands... And there's this band called Future Islands that I love.

I fell in love with The Strokes when I was 20, and I'm 34 now and still listen to them religiously.

The Strokes will never get anywhere after that first record.

I just stroll in right before the recording goes on.

There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me.

You can look at Lil Uzi and know he has a strong opinion about his aesthetic.

In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music.

I do always the music before the lyrics. The story or an idea for the lyrics appears during the composing process normally, but some other times I already have a strong idea of the story I would like to sing before any music comes to my mind.

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

I've made my kids strong-willed and strong-minded where they know music from reality.