Quotes About Music

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

Somebody said to me once that Chvrches was an emo band in disguise, but nobody had figured it out yet, and I thought, 'You're not wrong!'

So I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

I used to study 'Hunky Dory' - and be mad that I hadn't figured out anything that cool!

I've finally figured out how to make a Rodney Crowell record, and that's let it be, leave the mistakes.

Once I realized music was working, I was getting money off of shows and I figured that I could find success through music.

When I started working on the sounds and music of 'Breaking the Rules,' I figured that I am really good at it so I was happy.

I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.

I feel like the first record was really finding my feet, figuring out what music I wanted to make... Now that I've done that, I feel like I've got a much clearer idea of what I want to sound like and what I want to discover. It's exciting.

I had been in a band in college. You kind of need to make a choice between going the music route or going the acting route. I chose acting, figuring I could always do the music on my own.

I'm interested in figuring out what freedom songs would sound like in 2016.

I bought a book with guitar tabs and forced myself to learn. I would go to school and then come home and sit in my room for hours figuring out the songs.

I think everyone goes through it in university, figuring out whether or not they're doing the right course. I guess I'm the same, but in music.

We were really into what Cliff Martinez did with 'Drive;' we were into what Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were doing with David Fincher. When I read about how they worked with David Fincher, they're composing hours and hours of music and then he's working and figuring it out.

People aren't going to support an artist just because they have an audio file. They have to feel a real connection.

I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.

Listening to John Bonham is just a sheer celebration of his playing - it can't help but fill you with so much joy.

It may never happen, but I'd love to make a movie and not be rushed or concerned about shooting too much film. Probably a fantasy, but it would be nice. It would also be cool to fill a movie with all my favorite songs, but music is so damn expensive. We can't all be Cameron Crowe.

I try to fill the stage with my confidence in music. Obviously, this is to offer the fans with the best music.

I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

The world I was born into was one filled with music.

I'm a lazy guy. I can't focus for too long. I'd rather hear a record that has no filler.