Quotes About Music

I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music.

For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.

I owe Elvis my career, and the entire music business owes him it's lifeline.

I want to help promote Korean music around the world.

I am passionate about music - and people think because I go to places where I can enjoy music I have to be partying. It isn't true.

Lots of the bands [in New Orleans] couldn't read too much music. So they used a fiddle to play the lead - a fiddle player could read - and that was to give them some protection.

It's a melting pot, southern Africa. You find these cultural collisions that result in art and music, and it's pretty amazing.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Music soothes my savage beast. I got a beast in me running wild.

Growing up in a multicultural family, I never really felt that I was different - even though I was from most of the kids in my school. Especially with music, I try to just approach it as an equal.

There's a kind of ear music . . . a rhythmic synchronicity which creates a kind of heartbeat on the page.

Secular music was not allowed in our household.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

The music of the far-away summer flutters around the Autumn seeking its former nest.

I have to feel connected before I record and the song has to spark something inside me. Very few songs do that. I guess it's a good process because I love all of my music.

I didn't really want to give up music.

If you're alive, you have all the experience necessary to understand classical music.

Pop is the most competitive form of music there is. You are always fighting to be adopted and accepted by the masses, and it's always shifting.

A musician has to find a way to make his music mean something special - spiritually or however you can

Radio and TV can still push a band, but things need to be shaken up. There is the Internet, but mostly what I see there is little kids on YouTube playing music.

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music.