Quotes About Music

Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

The thing is, I would need the right producer [for dance-music album ], right? "Calling all dance music producers! I'm available.

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me

The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.

I really love jazz, but I will never be a jazz musician as much as I dream. But, I think that the jazz music I love is there in my music.

I'm very open, I love music and I love people so you need to know what's going on.

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

What motivates it is life. Life is everything. Life influences my music and brings it forth. Life is always changing, so I'm always hearing new music.

At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.

I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

I've been a Michael Jackson fan ever since I can remember listening to music. I love his music.

I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.

What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

The music industry was invented, like, 100 years ago. I'm talking about the goddess Matangi, who invented music 5,000 years ago. She was the only thing that inspired me.

Because I am a storyteller I live by words. Perhaps music is a purer art form. It may be that when we communicate with life on another planet, it will be through music, not through language or words.

I love music and I guess I have less expectations or pressure to kind of put on myself because the music hasn't been some huge sensation.