Quotes About Music

To make a film, the final big collaborator that you have is the composer.

I listen to a lot of music. One of my favorite songs is 'Final Song' by M. It's something that I listen to before a lot of competitions.

I always do very detailed demos. I feel that it's better to show the director a demo that sounds as close to the final thing as possible with samples. It takes time to create, but I feel that it's better to get the director on board very early on in terms of the sounds that I have in my head.

Showrunning is when you're the constant creative voice in the show. For a year-and-a-half, you are working on the scripts, you're fine-tuning them, you're the final say on the edit, the music and the cast.

I run around so much that I finally reasoned that composing is the one musical endeavour which you can do anywhere, anytime.

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

I just have to sell enough records to continue financing making more records.

When I was younger, I worked for several years composing music for commercials, but I was very happy to give that up. I didn't really like it, it was a way of financing my bands.

I'm going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That's the one place I can be free. But the reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.

Country seems to be finding a bigger audience. Certainly an audience out of the general country scene is finding me.

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too.

I like clever lyrics, funny lyrics, dumb lyrics. I can never put my finger on what I like about them.

Dad had a way of defining himself. He couldn't put his finger on whether it was rock 'n' roll or country.

I'm going to build an empire. I'm always writing for someone else. I want to be someone who has her fingerprints all over the pop charts.

I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.

I like to tinkle at my piano when I'm working out a new song - I just put my fingers down and see what comes out.

I can count on less than five fingers the things I can do well, so I'm just going to stick to those. It's crazy; it's literally all I've ever wanted to do in life is sing and play and get out there and rock.

We're giving RCA another record, and that should finish them.

To do the Ozzfest again would be great. I'd like to finish with a final Sabbath album. You always feel that it is still a challenge.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

The fans are very, very loyal. They're always saying, 'When is the next album?' They know when I finish in the studio it's got to be a few years before the next album.