Quotes About Music

I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool.

I feel like everybody that saw my videos was like, 'Oh this dude's about to rap.' They just played my videos, and I feel like I shocked a lot of people.

I don't watch a whole lot of television, to be honest, but I do miss music videos.

Actually, it's the beauty of independent music that the artist can feature in his own videos and be the face of it. It is unlike Bollywood movies, where one does playback singing.

Friends came on the road, came on tour, came in my music videos; I got in the studio with them. I'm a really loyal person, and I don't have a really large group of friends, but the people I hang out with I really, really care about, and they continue to be a part of my life.

I was a rapper who was 13 or 14 years old at one point, and it was a dream. I used to see videos of other rappers around the world, and I used to hope that I could be like that one day.

I think music videos in particular and film in general - it's really good at communicating tone and feeling.

Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there's so much potential in music videos.

The videos are definitely as important as the music.

I think before, in the '80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the fans learning who you were and your music.

I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something.

Regularly in music videos, I'll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I'm having to make concessions to meet in the middle.

I'm obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos.

I miss the videos that are short films, back when MTV played videos all day.

I began my career as a recording artist, and eventually I started directing my own music videos.

I'm certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don't do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos.

You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.

Vocally, I had never taken a lesson when I put out my videos. It was just a lot of fun. I had watched my dad play guitar, so I just sort of did the same thing.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!

Before we had Fergie, it was me, will.i.am, and apl, and we were showcasing our dance moves in our videos.

I drop videos off the cuff... I don't stop.

My true memory has been tainted by old home videos of my sister and I, ages 3 and 5 respectively, singing karaoke to Britney Spears' 'Lucky' in our living room, and tape recordings of my parents trying to elicit songs out of our throats at a similar or younger age.

I couldn't get gigs because you need to be 18 in most venues. So I started doing videos. I wasn't thinking about getting a record deal, I just wanted to know if people thought I was good.