Quotes About Music

That's what I do: I'm a singer. I have many arrangers, but I usually conduct for myself.

There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.

Conducting is way over my head.

I really want to get better at conducting.

It's a dream to be its conductor. Sometimes I think, 'My God, I can't believe it.' It's a dream which came true.

My mother played piano at home; she came from a musical family. Her father, who I never met, was a conductor and composer.

Composers are not all good conductors.

I've always been accused of moving around too much when I play concertos. Sometimes, conductors ask me which of us is leading.

If I was running a British School of classical music I'd employ Tai Chi teachers to help the conductors at the end of their lessons.

I played with the best conductors of the world.

I feel confident that the work I've put in will make people see me as a music artist before anything else.

I feel more confident about what we're doing as a band and what we're trying to do as a band and the way we're looking at it as a band.

I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.

I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

I don't like confrontation; I just like to sing.

I always wanted to create my own musical world. That takes time and must be earned, and it does mean sometimes confronting the expectations of the audience.

That's what I look for in music anyway: I want someone to confuse me to the point where I look inwards rather than at what they're doing.

I think a lot of artists get confused when people like their music; they think that means people know and like them. I'm sure there's an element of truth to that, but to me, the music I make is what I'm most proud of. I prefer to focus on that and for people to focus on the music, too.

People find it confusing I'm in a band, even though music was my main thing before acting.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

Moving to Dubai at age 9 and then the Congo, they were two completely opposite countries. But that brought me to music and taught me things that I never would have learned otherwise. And it was always about the rhythm in those two countries - that's why I love them.

I don't think HBO would want to do anything in conjunction with Sub Pop but I never asked either.

There's no meaning to life without music. Everybody has their own connect with music.

If my music has power, I don't have to hashtag anything. If it has to connect with someone, it will. That has been my experience.