Quotes About Music

I'm an old-timer in the business from the sense that when you do something that you feel good about there might be another person out there who feels the same way, or a hundred or a couple million.

I had all these songs lying around. They had all these woman characters, and I thought the idea of the Woman King would be a good way to tie them all together.

There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.

I never was a very good singer.

I think that there's a lot of good will that exists between musicians and the people that support them and listen to them.

Yes, I co-wrote a song on the album called "Good Friend To Me" with Annie Roboff and Bekka Bramlett.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

A good movie with bad music can kill a great dramatic scene.

There are some good people in it, but the orchestra as a whole is equivalent to a gang bent on destruction.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

I think people relate to the music because I have a sense of empathy, and I think I have a good understanding about relationships, and I talk about them in a real, honest way

Hip-hop and R&B are especially fertile bases of collaboration. It always makes good records and good music.

Me and music are not good friends, so I do my best to augment the music part [of my films] and come up with something worth watching.

Sly Stone doesn't make good albums: only good records. His style is so infinite and revolves around so many crucial aspects that it has only come together perfectly on a handful of his singles.

50 Words of Snow just didn't seem to have the complications that quite a lot of albums have. It felt to me like it had this very good flow of energy.

I felt like going out on the road and mixing it with music - which is something young people are always really interested in - would be a good way to proselytize. It was like feminist evangelism.

People have always had these weird things about how you have to be really good looking to be a singer.

I just don't think I'm a very good singer.

I didn't know music could make me feel good, I guess.

There's a ton of good art and music and writing out there offline among a ton of trash, and the same goes with what's online.

What I like to do is just make good music, good movies, hopefully perform a good show full of energy and just have some fun.

Success alone brings expectations. I think that people expect a certain thing from Lloyd - that's music that makes them feel good about their day, even when they're havin' a bad one.

Aligning my music with something that feels morally and politically passionate to me feels good.