Quotes About Music

Music is a right, but only for those who deserve it!

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on.

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds.

Music has been my everything since day one. It's been my shoulder to cry on, my rock and my best friend.

Electronic music right now is in its comfort zone, and it's not moving one inch.

There are no natural barriers. It's all music. It's either hip or it ain't.

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

I have a weird life because I live on songwriting royalties, which are a strange income. Sometimes it rains, sometimes it doesn't.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.

If everyone in the music business were brutally honest about what their intentions were then you could sort things out, but it's all smoke and mirrors.

The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences

For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it.

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

I tried practicing for a few weeks and ended up playing too fast.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

The whole thing of being in music is not to control it but to be swept away by it. If you're swept away by it you can't wait to do it again and the same magical moments always come.