Quotes About Music

I love 'Guitar Hero' because I love music, but I have no musical ability whatsoever. So I love a game that makes you feel like you're a rock star.

I have a really hard time connecting to music that doesn't feel like I'm somehow solving a puzzle that applies to my life.

By the time I was a senior in high school, I was constantly with my headphones, just making music all the time. People were calling me a "musician", and I found that so weird.

I only write when listening to the music.

Music is indivisible. The dualism of feeling and thinking must be resolved to a state of unity in which one thinks with the heart and feels with the brain.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

I needed music today. And like always it was there for me.

I studied classical percussion for ten years. At one point I was thinking about going to the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, but then I realized it's actually not what I wanted to do.

A songwriter's heart is pure when they have the desire to keep digging deeper into music. And invariably, when you dig deeper it always leads you into the past.

Reggae is music of love. It has joy and pain, but it feels good.

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Music has always been a huge part of my life and when I was a kid I was always throwing myself into whatever I could music-related - even if it was a little embarrassing!

Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.

I was listening to a lot of Norwegian black metal and death metal. There's a great history to Norwegian black metal. That music is very dark and violent, but it's also beautiful.

You make music to move people and you don't get to pick who you move. You just don't. It's exclusionary and elitist and I just never felt that way about music, of all things. The great unifier.

I had a real stage school voice and I could do loud things, but it's not about being loud, it's about sensitivity and subtlety in music. You can do so much more with a quiet voice than with a belter.

I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.

I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.

I'd rather kill myself than work in the music industry today.

I think no matter what kind of music you play, there will be moments when you feel like it's all been done before.

There's only so much you can do with a male voice in dance music.

I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.