Quotes About Music

We all battling different things. Me? I'm just able to channel that through my music.

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Man, y'know, I'm a music guy. I like a lot of different things. It depends on the time of the day and the situation.

As far as doing TV, I do think there's a big audience out there that could enjoy classical music, but they don't know how to find it, and sometimes by doing different things... crossover things probably make up about 5% of what I do.

At every sound check, I try to practice on the stage that we're gonna play on that night, 'cause every stage is different. Whether it's concrete or whether it's plywood or whether it's Plexiglas, it all requires different things. You can't dance on concrete as well as you can dance on Plexiglas.

I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.

I get things out of my system through my songs, but, because they can be about so many different things, it takes me a while to get through them emotionally.

It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.

I've got different drum machines that I use for different things, but I think the older ones are always the best when it comes down to getting that 808 bass.

I listen to a lot of different things. I'll be listening to prog rock, then the next couple of hours - Indian.

I write all different types of music, which can be a blessing and a curse.

Music's supposed to be entertaining. But there are different types of entertainment.

Like when I hear a beat, it might make you feel a way, but then it might make me feel a completely different way.

Everyone communicates with music in a different way. With some people, if there's not sheet music, they're not playing it.

I love collaborations because they take your music in a different way.

I may sing the same songs for over 40 years now but I always sing them in different ways in order to keep the excitement and passion alive.

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

Some people go to the gym and some people have different ways that they express themselves, and I do all mine through my music.

That's the whole part about being a deejay: You've got to make sure you are prepared. At the end of the day, you do have your genre - house music, dance music - but there are many different ways of playing that.

I think acoustic performances and full, live performances are always cool in different ways.

When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.

I'm a big fan of Lily Allen's music, but I'm not a fan of her personality. I differentiate the two.

After working with Ligeti I began to hear Brahms and Beethoven differently.

I do get a bit of a sense, just from e-mails some people send me, just a little sense of how people in different countries seem to respond differently to certain lines in a song.