Quotes About Music

I was an eBay addict before my first album hit big. I wanted to go on this tour of the world, so I started selling everything on eBay.

I want to sell music. That's all I'm interested in selling.

Playing music was something I wanted to do since I was 11 years old, so when we went on tour and started selling records, it was an incredible, strange dream.

If people really like your music but you're not selling so many records, I don't think it really matters.

The traditional model for selling an album isn't the only way of doing things.

Nobody sells records any more, and the only way you can actually do anything is to go out and play live.

A great script might come my way, and I could be in the middle of music. So, it's a huge choice that I have to make - if I'm going to go do a movie or if I'm going to turn it down - because it could be an opportunity that could send my career through the roof, and you never know.

There's never been a song that I just wrote and tried to send to an artist.

People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressing room or in my car.

I made a quote-unquote 'album' for my senior project of high school. As soon as I finished making it I realized it wasn't the kind of music I wanted to make.

Michael Hutchence is an incredible frontman and a huge influence on me. I really love 'Mystify' and 'New Sensation.'

We've always had a sense of humor - look at our name.

Some of the best rock shows I ever saw were those appealing to all your senses.

Engineering was the safe and sensible choice, but music was what I loved and wanted to do.

Maybe I'm too sensitive to the struggle, but I think a lot of people that listen to music are trying to escape.

I'm such an emotional and sensitive person, so it only makes sense that my songs are as well.

I have to respect her family, and until they come and say, 'We're ready to do an Aaliyah album,' then I don't really want to come and try to get into that because that's very sensitive.

I try and approach other music with sensitivity. And, if it's music I don't know, I try and work with other people who are well-versed it in, so that it's done sensitively.

The first time I heard rock'n'roll on a big sound system would have been at a fairground at the seaside. That's a hell of a sensory experience right there.

I typed up a long email with different band name ideas and sent it to Stephanie, and they all started with 'the'.

My dad has learned all of the songs that I've sent him. He put it on his computer, on his jukebox, on his phone.

As far as k. d. lang is concerned, she grew up devouring my music. She sent me a song when she was 8 years old, and she says I never wrote back.

When I read a review, 90% of the review is about my lifestyle, and the last two sentences are about the record.

Writing is looking for music between sentences.