Quotes About Music

It was and still is the greatest highlight of my career, being a member of the Opry.

Every time I go to the Opry is a special moment.

I didn't want to go out on dates on Friday and Saturday night, because I wanted to go to the Opry with my dad. I learned a lot being in the heart of the music business and made some of my best friends there.

The Opry takes dedication and it takes love. It takes love.

That's where I fell in love with country music, there at the Opry with Dad by my side.

People always ask me: Is it the music? Is it the masks? No, it's all of it. It's Slipknot. It's the optics, it's the masks, it's the music, it's the performance, it's the records.

We really had boundless optimism about the place of music in the culture - and in the world.

We had the idea as women that we could walk into music and be good at it and be as good as any man and have a career in it without being taken advantage of. So basically, those things came true. The obstacle course was just more difficult than we ever anticipated. We were optimistic and very naive.

I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself.

On 'Overpowered,' there was a nostalgia for disco and early house music. But I'm a modernist and futurist as well. I do believe - and this is going to sound really pretentious, I know - that humanity will figure it out, so I'm optimistic about the future.

I didn't think I could play in a band. It just wasn't an option - all band members were men, and bandleaders were men.

I started playing guitar, like, when I was 17 or so, but where I'm from, you just don't hear about people moving to Nashville and making it. It was such a foreign thing to me. I never knew music was an option for me.

A lot of people like mainstream country because they're not given another option of country music to like that's modern.

It's cool to hear my songs on the radio. But for me, that's just a way to get more people to have the option of choosing my music.

There is power in music, certainly when an audience starts to show up and you have the option to send good messages.

I'm open to making any kind of music, or maybe making no music ever again. That's also an option, always. Who knows what'll happen.

The world is changing, and the way we consume music is obviously changing. I was one of the biggest CD advocates you will find, but when Apple music and digital options came out, like for everyone else, it was more conducive to my lifestyle.

I have too many options when it comes to guitars.

It probably would be impossible for me to make music and not make it sound like Burzum. This is the music I make and the only music I am able to make, so I have no other options musically.

I like having a big band because it gives you more options. They can always not play and I can do the quiet stuff, but when we want to do the big arrangements, we can.

I have been given something really, really special and really unique, and it is not just in and of itself having learned from my father, who is the greatest exponent of this musical style. But it is an oral tradition that is only generally passed on in that manner, and so without the people who continue to... learn it and perform it, it dies.

I find myself listening to Blood Orange and Janelle Monae and artists like that.

Crazy Arms' is one of those songs that can get crushed beneath its own weight. It's kind of like 'Orange Blossom Special' or 'Rocky Top' or 'Crazy.' But when you go back to the original interpretation, you hear it in a new way.

The Righteous Brothers got so heavy because of the dramatic hit records like 'Lovin' Feelin.' Bobby and I just felt like we were a couple of Orange County guys who were just having a great time singing rock n' roll, and then, boy, it became something else.