Quotes About Music

I've gotten to work with amazing people. I would say usually we get to a point before we get into the studio where there isn't that sense of anxiety or nervousness of who they are because I don't think it would be as productive in the studio if that was the case. But maybe meeting someone like Neil Young for the first time made me anxious.

I'm definitely responsible for coming in with some basic chord changes, or ideas. Everybody in the band looks to me to come up with the basic seed, so it's not very productive to come in with nothing.

Ideas are really what interest me in producing a band, if I can bring something productive to the project.

I dedicated most of my life to basketball, and that was my plan until my junior year of college when I got ill and was bed-ridden for eight months. In those months, I wanted to be productive, and I taught myself how to produce music on my computer. When I went back to school, I started taking all my classes in music and DJing a lot.

I'm a really big fan of hip-hop, and I can listen to it before the game, but I'm not that into a lot of profane music.

I have chosen music as a profession for myself. I have never felt any kind of burden or pressure on being a part of this industry.

My profession is called record production.

I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

I didn't think at all as a young child that music would be my profession. It was just something that one did along with going to Brownies or going to church or going to school or anything else that one did in sort of one's very young life.

The Beach Boys was a family hobby that we turned into a profession. We're very blessed.

Music is a conversation between the audience and me, and I love that about my profession.

I didn't really want anyone to know that I wanted to write music or make songs because, in a way, I didn't necessarily know if I wanted to do it for a profession. I wanted to do it to express myself.

Even in high school, music was just a really fun thing on the side. I don't think I grasped the fact that it could be a profession.

My older brother and myself always played together in bands, but we never knew we would be professional musicians.

We write songs that hit different people at different ages where they live.

I wanted to put a song out there to let people know who I was and, at the same time, help me set apart from a lot of different people in country radio.

Everyone has their own opinion about what should be on the radio and I think there's room for all different people.

I work on music with different people, and I work on music on my own. That's my life.

I sang a lot of low stuff on songs like 'Secrets' and 'Rockin',' almost like Toni Braxton. On 'Secrets,' I'm a different person.

There's something about music that makes me feel like a different person, that feels like an escape.

I think that a lot of people are going so wrong by analysing music too much and learning from a totally different perspective from the way I learned. I mean, I just learned by listening to people. People I learned from learned by listening to people.

Music comes from a whole different place. It tells the story of your life and it's probably the closest thing I have to a religion.

The songs always tell you something, but always for different reasons.

I love songs with, like, six or seven or eight different things going on at once, and that's just me.