Quotes About Music

I sing 'Beirut' for what the city is for me, but I am also singing as an exile.

I like to go out for dinner in Belfast with my friends, I like to work on the house. I like working on music.

Always really good audiences in Belgium.

I don't want to fit in. I want to make music that can reach out to people of all different ages and backgrounds and beliefs and turn us into one, groovin, 'Goodtimenation.'

When I was a kid, award shows were super-interesting for me. But when I started making music, it was kind of hard to watch because I believed in what I was doing and yet knew I didn't really have a shot.

Drummers don't write - or at least, that's what everybody believes.

Now I am at the point people are believing in my music, I couldn't live with myself if I didn't talk about what I believe in.

Bell Biv Devoe, back in the day, we used to look up to them. They had incredible style back then, so we wanted to be like them.

I think I've been lucky to work with so many lovely people. But there's Joshua Bell, who's the world's greatest violinist. We worked together live and once, for his record, but I really would want to work with him on one of my records.

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in.

I think belly dancing is very sensuous.

I do belong on stage.

I try and take it for what it is, and I'm very at peace with the fact that when I'm done with the songs, they don't belong to me anymore. They belong to the listeners.

I don't ever view myself as a straight country act, and I don't think the straight country acts view me as a straight country act, either - but I certainly belong to them.

I see how people look at me, all around the world. They see something because of the race I belong to. I have to understand that and put it into my music.

I belong to this family: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's family. Since my childhood I have always wanted to sing and learn music. Whenever I saw Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan play, I felt inspired to be like him.

It was always my belief that rock and roll belonged in the hands of the people, not rock stars.

I moved to the States from London when I was 12 years old. My father was in a band and wanted to tour, so we moved here, but it wasn't until I moved to Williamsburg and had my son that I felt like I finally belonged.

Where I come from, music is not a business. Sharing music is a business, but music is not a business. It comes from the people and belongs to the people.

Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human eloquence, from all those sublime phrases, to take refuge in nature, apparently so inarticulate, or in the wordlessness of long , grinding labor, of sound sleep, of true music, or of a human understanding rendered speechless by emotion!

She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

Songs are the soul of movement! - MLK Jr.

A small thing, but in a dissonant world, every moment of harmony counts--and if we share music, we might just shout in anger a little less and sing in unity more. Or so we can hope.