Quotes About Music

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

I recently did a piece for the Boston Pops and John Williams, and I hope that it's as well a composed piece as I've ever done for any other medium or occasion.

I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

I hope that just what I sing about and how I relate to my audience is as much of a political statement as I need to make.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

I am happy to be able to be part of this Rock'n'Blues Fest as the first tour since the amputation of my right leg. I hope this gives me a leg up on the new year!

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.

I hope people get genuine joy from our music.

Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.

I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy.

When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy too. Not sexy happy but apple pie happy.

I hope there are some audiophiles still out there.

I'd say that music is my wife, acting's my mistress – I like 'em both, so I hope I don't have to choose.

Just like a Led Zeppelin album stands up today, we hope our album stands up in 10 or 20 years.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.

My hope is that no matter your mood there is [on a Joyride albom] a song on there that speaks to you.

I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don't want my songs to make people sad. It's very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.