Quotes About Music

The best way to refine an interpretation is by getting out and performing.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

The best way to use the auto-tune is not to! And that's what I do: I do not use auto-tune!

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

The best way to compliment an emcee is to say his lyrics. That's how you say, "Hello."

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

The best musicians are not the best players, they're the best listeners.

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I've ever had.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

The best practice you can get is on the bandstand, but in between gigs I feel I have to stay in shape.

The devil should not be allowed to keep all the best tunes for himself.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I've never even heard of them?

I've just always sung - just always sung. My voice has always been my best friend.

If I stopped writing and being at my piano, I wouldn't know how to live. It's your best friend.