Quotes About Music

The goal is ecstasy, but I don't want to make some sort of saccharine pop music. I want to make something that's completely uncompromising: the best possible music ever made.

Neil Young is the prime example, the grand goal, if you will. He's still shredding, and he never lost his credibility.

The goal is always to make a nice tableau painting with the voice. The more color I can find, the more shadow I can find - the goal is always to make more nuance and colors.

One of my real goals was to hear someone whistling a song I'd written.

Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody.

That's kind of my goal: to build a new row of meaningful tones.

I don't ever really list things that I want to do. The only two things that I've ever wanted to do are be in a rock band and be a wrestler. Those were my two goals.

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

I don't want to shove the Bible down someone's throat with my music. That's not my goal.

I grew up a fat kid in a small town in Minnesota who was a tomboy and happened to play a mean violin. My goal was to be a famous concert artist some day.

When you're young, the goal is to have a hit. You get a little older and the goal becomes to get to make another record.

My goal is that when the last song is over, and you're walking back to the parking lot, you're already on your phone searching to find the next show.

I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

The only goal right now that I can have, the only thing I can offer right now, is the need to get good at music, do something with quality.

I don't want to sound presumptuous, but I've made it my goal to revolutionize pop music. The last revolution was launched by Madonna 25 years ago

My #1 goal is to become a successful singer and share my gift with the world.

Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.

God bless Merle Haggard. He did all the things that Johnny Cash was supposed to have done.

I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.

I remember being handed a score composed by Mozart at the age of eleven. What could I say? I felt like de Kooning, who was asked to comment on a certain abstract painting, and answered in hte negative. He was then told it was the work of a celebrated monk.