Quotes About Music

When I did 'Hand Cannot Erase,' I didn't have a specific singer in mind.

I used music and reading to erase my world, so basically I read for up to 16 hours a day for 23 years.

One of the people I heard early on in his career was Eric Church. I liked him and his music.

We need musicians! We need them healthy - we need to dance and we need to escape - and none of that is possible when musicians themselves need support.

You can't live in Austin and escape the music.

I think music is like little films, and it's nice to listen to music and really escape.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

We're in entertainment. We're supposed to be making music that communicates with people, but ultimately, it's supposed to be something that people can enjoy. Sometimes you just want to escape for an hour and a half.

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

When you come home and dad's making music, sister's making music and my mum is also very musical - you can't escape it.

Music is escapism, it's entertainment.

I know the music I hear and what I want. But sometimes I have to let that go and not try to be so esoteric.

Busking is the essence of what I do. It's made everything possible.

Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

I feel electronica is spoiling the essence of music.

We always start with the music even though people assume that the lyrics are the essence.

Music - which I could never listen to while writing before I had children - became essential to my process.

Music is essentially an emotional language, so you want to feel something from the relationships and build music based on those feelings.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially.

I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.

People can't look down on grime anymore, it's an established British genre.

You can have all personality in the world, the looks, etc., but if you don't have the songs, it doesn't close the deal.

I made records for people who would buy them. No color, no ethnic, no political - I don't want that, never did.

My ethos is musical freedom: to create whatever I want.