Quotes About Music

My music is not always about getting my ideas heard, it's about letting other people feel empowered to have their ideas heard by example.

A lot of the music that I really love, and a lot of my favourite music and a lot of my favourite things and a lot of my favourite people, these can be experienced on many levels.

Leona Lewis made some really nice albums.

I was making more electronic and synth-based music, and when I changed my name, it helped me grow and liberate myself a little bit.

Singing was a liberating experience for me.

I usually license my stuff to a label. Make the album, license it to a big label and get it back after four years.

I've never lied on a record.

I will keep working on my own music because my heart lies there.

Every day, the approach to life changes. And that's what music is all about to me.

The music we do is weaved together through stories and life experiences. When people come to hear us, I hope they are are uplifted and that we give them a lot to take home.

All of my music is based off my life experiences.

The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'

You know the way you tell your life story to a friend? I just told mine to a piano.

Brahms is life-changing every time. And though I love him, I can't say that about Mompou.

Slipknot's not about who's in the band. It's a lifeblood. It's a force. It's about a connection between a bunch of people.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I see music as a lifetime affair.

I feel that in order to learn as much about music as I would like to learn, I would need more than one lifetime.

I want to make music to lift the people.

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back.

There's nothing better than lifting somebody's spirit with music.

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place.

In real life, I'm far more lighthearted than I come across on the records.

That connectivity with the audience that I get to enjoy, that's my church. It's not one of ego or anything like, 'I'm on the stage and the lights.' It's just this connectivity, and it's always been that way for me.