Quotes About Music

At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing.

People love me when I do selfie videos, so I know they like me in music videos as well. Otherwise, I would have just been a playback singer.

Michael Jackson was one of popular culture's greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global.

I learned how to make videos, I learned how to make music, I learned English from the Internet. It's such a great platform, too, to release your stuff.

I believe that music videos give us an opportunity as actors to play a different character.

As a kid, I'd watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, 'Coming next... Pixie Lott.' That's so strange that I can't even begin to make sense of it.

First of all, you needed a budget to do the video. The record companies would pick and choose who got videos.

At 13, I loved how so many of my peers sang and played acoustic guitar, so I started recording videos with covers of famous songs and posting them online.

I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies.

I think Bollywood stars should stay away from independent music videos because this is our most personal and direct way of connecting with our listeners.

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.

As a singer, I always try to keep my music videos clean.

One of my favorite things about sketch comedy is doing parodies and music videos.

I think people thought we were sort of right-wing or something, which we certainly are not. I think they got the wrong idea from the videos, that we were some kind of neo-fascist band. I heard a lot of that.

With most of the songs and music that I've composed, irrespective of the myriad videos made, I was always careful not to overly define the experience, leaving room for people to internalize things for themselves, making their experience more integral.

There was a time when stars were made out of music videos but today singers rely on actors to make their singles hit. I find that sad.

Young singers are much better educated musically, much better informed, through discs and videos, than I was.

If it wasn't for 2 Live Crew videos wouldn't look like they do and rappers wouldn't sound like they do.

There's not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing.

I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken.

I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.

I've always been a fan of instructional videos. The bass-player ones are insane. The music on them is fascinating. It's not something you hear on CDs or would really ever play in bands. You listen to it and are like, 'What is happening?' It's this blizzard of notes in weird time signatures, and they're trying to teach you that.