Quotes About Music

Every day I have a new idea or new outlook for my music, a new goal for my music and it's because I'm growing as a woman, as a human being as well. At the same time as I'm growing as an artist in the industry, I'm growing as a human.

Any musical output is emotional.

Acting is just another facet and it will not affect my output as a music director.

At the end of the day, I'm just trying to write a song that I like, that I'm not afraid to turn loose on the world. I do read a lot. I know a lot of people who read more, but I do try to keep a book in my hand most of the time, and I think that informs any kind of output that I'm going to have.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.

Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.

We've never been outrageous on stage.

I really love when music artists like Lady Gaga or Michael Jackson wear outrageous things. Obviously, if I wore something like that I'd look like an idiot, but I really respect fashion.

I saw the Dead in '73 at Nassau Coliseum, and that same year, I saw them at the crazy, big Watkins Glen festival. It was just outrageous. It was amazing to see the reciprocity between them and their audience.

Music was everything. Now it is just not as important as it used to be. When I was growing up, where everyone was trying to outdo each other by being more outrageous and sounding more different, now there is a homogeneous sameness to it all.

Some of the newer bands I like include Queensryche and Marillion, and I was glad when Yes reformed. Also, Kingdom Come; I was laughing when I first heard it and going 'This is outrageous,' but it's a really album. I went to see them play and enjoyed it.

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.

The National's favorite experiences as musicians are when we are collaborating with people a little outside of our world as a band.

I think when I do things outside of music, I am always thinking of different things that are eventually one way or another going to come back to my music. I have to make sure it is all cohesive, as that's important to me as an artist and a person.

I want to save duets and collaborations for outside of the album. With the albums, I like it just being me.

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

In YBN, we all have our own lanes. We're not necessarily a group. We're more of a collective - it's like a movement. It's like a brotherhood outside of music and everything has been organic.

In the end, for me, music is such an internal thing that to let the outside world influence would be against my modus operandi.

To be honest, I've found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven't been made to feel like an outsider.

I felt like hip-hop was my music, it was like my outsider music... but then my mom started answering our phone, 'Yo, what's up.' She was hearing me talk to my friends. I was like, 'No, mom, don't cop the hip-hop talk.'

I grew up listening to hip hop and embracing black culture, probably because it was 'outsider art.'

I always felt like an outsider of the industry, and now I feel quite comfortable as an independent artist.

To the outsider or the fans, they don't understand that if you're independent and sell 30,000 or 50,000 records independently, that's amazing for you.