Quotes About Music

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.

Social topics may hit too close to home for people, but then again, if you pull a heartstring, then that's what country music is. It's not just songs about getting drunk and leaving your girl.

There is the music that we make, and the music that makes us.

I learnt that music cost something, and that's a good thing. Also, that I should exercise, because I didn't and I got very sick.

The key is always the actual art itself, the actual music. There are all these myths out here that like, if you do this little trick, if you use this little strategy, it'll do it for you.

I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead.

Once you're in a particular country, and you're surrounded by musicians who are so adept at traditional music, you suddenly realize how much there is to explore and digest and learn and experience.

The Music was like Electric Sugar

My music is all about an idealistic human personality. I have 19th-century ideals.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland.

I have lost my credibility as a hit maker because of these side excursions into other branches of music; by not being consistent. Consistency seems to be all-important.

You know, I think when people fly the nest a little too soon, as far as getting involved in movies, anything beyond the music can make it suffer, I just want to make sure that I'm not that guy.

If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let's dance.

When you can write music that endures, bravo. Until then, keep quiet and study the work of those who can.

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start.

You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.