Quotes About Music

I don't really care what type of beat it is. As long as it appeals to my ear, I'm gonna do a song to it.

An ear sense for music is the secret.

My earliest memory of music has to be watching my mother play the santoor.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.

Music was the thing that caught my soul's attention from the earliest I can ever remember.

I was in early on with 'Yeezus.'

I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.

I'm in L.A., I'm in my early 20s, and I'm like, 'There are so many pretty girls here! Let's Marvin Gaye and get it on!'

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

I suppose I was lucky to be born in a time where I was in my early '20s in the '80s. It was just a happening time to be around.

I was inspired to be a singer/songwriter from an early age.

There's a whole generation out there who don't know that I was a pop singer in the early days.

It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

I didn't learn music because I wanted to become famous or earn a lot of money. It was to follow my father's advice and learn as much as I could about music.

We really earned our keep by going door to door, going to every town, playing in every club.

With Sleater-Kinney, we have a lot of earnest fans, and we were an earnest band.

The only thing you create music with is your own creativity and your own ears. And it takes a lot of time to develop your own ears. It's really important, before you go to the studio, to realize yourself: What do I want to hear? What do I want to create?

You know, your ears record. You might can sing a song once you hear it.

Western music is alien to my ears.

My songs never really reach the ears of white America.

Usually, whenever my mom would come over I would try and put on music that I thought she would like just to make her feel more at ease.

Most bands that don't want to become big at all, they don't play. If you don't want to be known, if you don't want to make it, don't play. That's the easiest way not to do it.

I was never super comfortable playing music in front of people anyway. Now I enjoy it, but it wasn't the easiest thing to get past.