Quotes About Music

When something really hits me, it makes me want to either jump off something really high or lie down and be buried. I want people to get hit and caught by my music.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that has ever happened, and vice versa.

I grew up in a Hollywood family with money, so money is not the reason I make music. I'm as Hollywood as it gets. Not internally but externally - that's my bloodline.

Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.

I liked Bach played the way people expect Chopin to be played, and vice versa.

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead.

The muse of music isn't just from Greek mythology, but living in people like the Beatles, Chuck Berry, Anita Baker, Aretha Franklin.

I feel like my music stands for the ultimate statement of irreverence.

I've grown up with my parents' music tastes, listening to Fleetwood Mac and the Rolling Stones.

My family, my fans and yes, romance is always there in one way or another. Life is full of these emotions and I have always found pleasure in incorporating them into my music.

Because I cannot sleep I make music at night.

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

Videos have to go hand in hand with your music, so that's why, ultimately, they should be created by the artist. And if they're not, it doesn't really add up to me.

We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

Sounds of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain awaken'd flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass

I hate that sense of entitlement or the sense of business crawling into playing music.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.

For me, being transparent about every aspect of my life is what makes my music relatable and how I'm able to be an individual amongst the mass amounts of other artists.

Whenever I visit a city, I like to see what classical music concerts are on offer.