Quotes About Music

I'm not trying to keep up or adapt. I'm allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Madonna is interesting. She changed music. She definitely did. She gave me an opportunity that no one else would give me, so I am very grateful to her.

I love the music, but being on the road ain't a piece of cake, but it is real rewarding. You've got to - all those people can't come to my house, so I've got to go out on the road and play for them.

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Music has always been transnational.

I'm not an '80s fan. I'm more '70s New York pre-punk kind of thing and I guess I grew up with '90s grunge, post-punk pop music.

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Music will always be my greatest passion.

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I'm enamored with the art world. Anytime you look at anything that's considered artistic, there's a commercial world around it: the ballet, opera, any kind of music. It can't exist without it.

I always wanted to be a spontaneous composer.

There were no guarantees that country music, whose roots were in the South, were ready for Charley Pride.

Before music there was silence and the duet format allows you to build from the silence in a very special way.

I never liked living in Montreal. And I don't really like the music scene there. It was never my cup of tea, and I never felt like I ever fit in.

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

I was raised in a Christian household and heard a lot of praise music, so that's what helps me get to an emotional place.

After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

All my life I have studies the peculiar powers of music. It has a force of its own that few would deny.

Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other.