Quotes About Music

I've got an odometer on my voice that has out-odometered an odometer on an automobile.

I think I have automobile skills and musical background.

My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.

Bjork has this kind of abstraction and formalism that you associate with art music or avant-garde music.

The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

I feel like Roc Nation is a home. It's more than just about music with them. They create different avenues for you to make money.

On an average day, I spend 12 hours listening to music. Very little writing.

I think there's no way of avoiding the South African or African influence from coming into my music, just because I spent 19 years of my life there. Being a kid, my early musical experiences were there.

Music must awaken people to do their duty as citizens and act.

In 1975 I had the award for the top male artist, the award for top single, the award for top album.

When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.

I like to watch movies - I just saw the documentary about Amy Winehouse, which was very good and emotional.

The band and I really enjoy working for people who enjoy the music. I haven't made a bazillion dollars doing this. I do it because I love it. I did it for free and will do it for free in the morning.

The New York Dolls are the only band that we grew up on that we haven't played with.

Every once in a while, I find something that I'm interested in just because of the singing, like the Goo Goo Dolls.

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.

When we come on the radio, people will go, 'That's Old Dominion,' 'cause it's a sound that can only be made by whatever the five of us make together.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

We don't care about our audiences that much. We just go out and play.

I really don't care at all what people call me as long as they're listening to the music and talking about it. They can call me a space-jazz flautist. I don't care at all.

I just think if the song's good, sing it. I don't care who's doing it. I don't care if it's a country act. I don't care if it's a rock act. If the song's good, sing it.

Listen - and I don't care who knows it - I'm a Belieber!

I had faith that music would be able to take me somewhere. I didn't know where. I just was like, 'Keep having faith, and any doors that open, I'll walk through them and see what happens from there.'