Quotes About Music

My parents were bookish, very musical, but otherwise uninvolved in the arts or the academic world.

So I think we got together as the Academy to give ourselves that sort of responsibility and to play well.

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

I really hope to give to other people who are listening to my music the same thing that it's done for me, which is make me feel more free and more accepting of myself.

The industry has always been accepting of gay artists, but a particular thing for me is to see gay artists of color.

I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible.

U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

I've always sort of felt that, for me, everything's so much more about the music than the accolades.

When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.

I'm not trying to become a pop artist, and I'm not trying to make sure I stay a country artist. I'm just trying to make sure I make the best music I can, according to my way.

I just became accustomed to being all the members of the band. That was something that was really exciting to me.

There were country songs I connected to when there was pain, when I saw things my family were going through. It was my way of acknowledging I wasn't OK: music tapped on the door; I could work out these emotions by singing.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

I was just a punk-rock kid who never played acoustic guitar.

I started on acoustic guitar after I heard Leadbelly and Big Bill Broonzy.

And I only really like to play the acoustic guitar.

All the songs I've written, if they don't sound good on acoustic guitar, they won't sound good at 11.

My parents always wanted me to do music because they thought it was such a great extracurricular activity but we never thought it was going to be something that would be my career.

I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.

With some electronica acts, you see them live, but you're not really sure what they're doing.

The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.

Bieber has taste and pull, which is as important to making quality pop as actual talent.

My actual taste in music is pretty bad, I think.

Three weeks into being in Hollywood, I was playing with Slash through an ad in the paper.