Quotes About Music

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171).

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I love inspirational R&B, like Mary J. Blige and Jennifer Hudson. I want to do that. That kind of music stays with you.

The first music I was ever exposed to was Irish folk music, like the Clancy Brothers. My father plays that and Christmas songs.

I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and I love snow. I love the music and the lights and all of it.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into.

I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.