Quotes About Music

I don't want to be singing my diary.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

A lot of music is like a diary for me.

If you take the duality of things - like sunny-sounding music with weird lyrics on it - it makes this dichotomy. I've never had that because when I make music, I make major chords, happy-sounding stuff, and my lyrics are positive.

For 'Drive,' we needed the songs to dictate emotions and really bring you into the mind of The Driver; he's a unique and complicated guy, so the music itself had to be unique and complicated.

I just let the emotion dictate what the arrangement is.

We can't be dictated to by radio. Radio needs to play what we send them.

The first time I played was in Buenos Aires - was in 1983. The dictatorship was in position.

Lzzy Hale could sing me the dictionary, and I would swoon. She is so amazingly talented, and her voice is absolutely delicious.

When I die, I'd like to come back as a cello.

My Chemical Romance is done. But it can never die.

Celtic music will always be around, even if with the mainstream crowds it dies out.

I think music is one of the clearest ways to connect between people of all differences.

I've had my differences with Massive Attack, but you can't deny what they've done. They've changed the face of music. They should make up an award for them even if there ain't one.

Music is emotion; it's a beautiful thing that connects people despite their age or differences or cultural differences and anything. We are still the same, and we can love the same things.

Kesha and I made a lot of songs together and it was often good but there were creative differences at times.

We have some fans that come to almost all of our shows, and they will travel to different countries to see us - that's pretty amazing.

What I did with Slash and the Conspirators was a very different kind of music. Genre-wise, it is a step in a different direction.

I like writing all different kinds of songs. I've wanted to run the gamut of artists.

I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music.

I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.

To just get in front of different kinds of audiences is important for me. I do think it's important for music to be a big family. Whether it's country or not.

To me, it makes more sense to write different songs and to play different kinds of music and to find your own voice. But no matter what, get out and play for people. Get out and learn, and do everything that you can, you know?

Three-6 Mafia, we were always doing different kinds of things, and we like rock music, we like whatever - not saying they was rock, but they had a little rock-n-roll with some of their music, a little rock with it.