Quotes About Music

You can do a lot to shape the feeling of a song by the way you record it.

Those American '90s bands shaped us.

If anything, there is something quite musical in Shakespeare's heightened use of language and the way he shapes his speech.

When you think about your heroes, it absolutely shapes how you play and who you are.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

The first time I shared my music and style with my mom, she said, 'Boy, you look like you came right out of the 1950s.'

When I grew up, there was a monoculture. Everybody listened to the same music on the radio. I miss monoculture. I think it's good for people to have a shared experience.

Although music comes from a very personal place, talent is meant to be shared.

Just sharing music with each other - that's cool. It's the selling that becomes the problem.

I think maybe one day I'll go back to music. I don't know. I don't know if sometimes you lose a passion or you don't lose it, it becomes more personal and less about sharing it with everyone.

I think music sharing of any kind is great.

When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.

At first it was kind of hard, because I had become used to just my phone screen in front of me. But sharing your songs with an audience is incredible.

Even as a little kid, I just loved to make my own music. So I loved singing, and I loved sharing it because it was a way to connect to people.

Yes, sharing super-personal experiences is scary, but I can only get up on stage and perform it if I really connect with the music.

I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.

At the end of the day, I earn a living by creating music and not sharing it with anyone because I am my own master. I know my worth.

With my songs and music, it's a way of sharing things with people that really have to do with me.

By sheer luck, we did our first tour of America as a headlining act.

I really don't have any shelf music.

I think hip-hop always shifts culture.

Being an accompanist is very selfless in many ways because you're really just trying to elevate the singer and help them shine, ultimately.

Basically I feel like my role is to find great songs with the artists, for the artists, and have them shine.

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.