Quotes About Music

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way.

Once the Mass is restored to its rightful place, we will again see choirs being developed.

I have always known that it comes from deep within myself. I always knew what sound I wanted, and how I wanted to play. I knew everything, it just had to be developed.

I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.

It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.

My identity started developing through the songs I was writing.

I started to music when I was about 19 years old. Most people that do music, they get training, or they develop themselves before they let their music out. For myself, I was actually developing myself and putting my music out at the same time.

In the back of my mind, when we were developing 'Next to Normal,' I always heard Alice Ripley.

The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.

I've never seen the devil create music.

Rock n' roll is the Devil's music.

When I was around ten, I decided I would devote myself and my life to music.

I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.

I've dedicated more than 15 years to this theater and television thing; I want to spend the next 10, 15 years or so devoted to music.

When the public doesn't understand me, it's a battle. So when I choose words, I choose them for their musicality, rhythm, and sense, and I choose the right dialect to express that.

I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

When I act, I hear it like music. In my head, I hear the dialogue like music.

When the song is part of the action and working as dialogue, even two minutes is way too long.

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.

Diana Ross... she's the bomb.

Music is a diary. Sometimes people make music as if no one's going to hear it, as if they can just be completely honest. Things are a lot more acceptable said in a song than it would be in person. Art excuses a lot of things.

My debut album is just a diary from a lonely 21-year-old. That's what it is.