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Quotes About Music

The best feeling I ever get is when I finish a song, and it exists, and it didn't exist before, and now it's there, and it makes me feel a certain way.
~ Conor Oberst
Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.
~ Cass McCombs
I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'
~ John Oates
It took us three months to finish the arrangement of 'Thunderstruck.'
~ Luka Sulic
When you finish a song, your first thought is going to be, 'Is this song a hit?' I hate that we think that way, because it kind of takes a little bit of the meaning out of the songs that are being written, but you're definitely going to think, 'Can this song be put on the radio?'
~ Thomas Rhett
I enjoy being in New York. I have so many fans here that sing all my songs from start to finish.
~ Yandel
We started out to finish groups like U2 - that was what it was all about.
~ Ian Brown
A lot of people don't even listen to albums start to finish, but I do - for sure.
~ K. Flay
I kind of tend to write a lot of songs, so it's never too hard for me to finish an album; it's more about just getting enough songs that I really love.
~ Soccer Mommy
I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.
~ Bill Bruford
I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished.
~ Tracy Chapman
We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.
~ Jeff Ament
When I finished school, I didn't continue to go to university, because I decided I wanted to do music.
~ Oliver Sim
With Sugarland, it never felt like we were finished telling our story.
~ Kristian Bush
My thing about demos is that you usually prefer them to the finished thing.
~ Johnny Flynn
I never know when a record is finished until it's almost finished.
~ Kevin Parker
We will always make music, but Die Antwoord is... finite.
~ Watkin Tudor Jones
I've loved music always, and my music fire was lit by Elvis Presley, really, and all that was happening back then.
~ David Lynch
I'd never have left Hawkwind if I hadn't been fired.
~ Lemmy
We need all those divisions of country music, firing on all cylinders.
~ Marty Stuart
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
~ Lou Reed
My first job was with The O'Jays playing drums.
~ Jeffrey Osborne
Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
~ O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
Music was my first love, but it was difficult for me. It's something that I really love, but I didn't feel that I was so good at it. I can sing well, but I'm not a great singer. When I sing, I don't feel I'm expressing all the emotions.
~ Lea Seydoux