Quotes About Music

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

I used to like to set different film clips to classical music, not even my own songs, but make little movies.

Reading is more of a left-brain process, and listening to music is a right-brain function.

Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy.

Music, among those who were styled the chosen people, was a religious art.

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

I like a lot of metal music. So that's really what I listen to a lot. Or I listen to a lot of kind of off the cuff, like I love artists like Santigold, or Gold Frapp. Yeah. Pelican. Yeah.

We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.

I think Sean Parker damaged the music business with Napster.

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.

The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love.

I think that if everybody changed and tried to make their music political, it'd be kind of a bummer.

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child

It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

He wakes into music the green forest-bowers.