Quotes About Music

I'm a good music provider, and I'm fine with that. I'm a quality music manufacturer.

It is true that independent music is risky, but the amount of freedom of expression it provides an artist overpowers this risk.

I can't write a line without music - it provides just the right amount of distraction to keep me focused. Clearly, I still miss the noisy roommates.

I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.

I think that the pivotal point of me in terms of the choral stuff is that I was involved in this provincial choir at 16 or 17. We went and played in churches and convention centres. The music we got to do was so inspiring for me.

Kenny G, I have to be grateful to him for proving that the instrument can be played all different kinds of ways.

While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends only on who's listening.

The MC that we love are usually the ones that we consider be kinda heartless, like 50 Cent. That's pretty much the prowess and power of an MC. That's what sells.

I was really only around country music on the radio, and I think because I grew up so close to Atlanta, and R&B was such a big part of that culture, by proximity I think a lot of that music influenced me without knowing it.

Music in the U.K. is not racialised in the same way as it is in the U.S. In the U.S.. it's more rigid and conservative. And white people in the U.K. have more close proximity with black people and people of colour in general.

What's so powerful about the Psalms are, as well as they're being gospel and songs of praise, they are also the blues.

Rock 'n' roll is good for the soul, for the well being, for the psyche, for your everything. I love it.

Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music. Remember, he was a chocolate, cherubic-faced genius with an African American halo. He had an Afro halo. He was a kid who was capable of embodying all of the high possibilities and the deep griefs that besieged the African American psyche.

I think that there's certain music that instead of saying a lot of different things that are on my psyche, I just say, 'I've aged out.' Because that is the best way of putting it, because a lot of things I simply don't understand and will not understand and can't see any intrinsic value in.

Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.

I really feel that I've been unjustly exorcised from the story of psychedelic music.

I'm into heavy duty, psychedelic, foreign music. That's what I like listening to.

I've always felt that all the music I've made is psychedelic, including Throbbing Gristle.

'Pagan Day' was Alex Fergusson's idea. It was him that encouraged me to start making music again and start Psychic TV.

KISS Psycho Circus is my current favorite. I'm not ashamed to say that I prefer the mindless fun of blasting hordes of creatures to exploration or adventure games.

Duncan Sheik and I are trucking along on 'American Psycho,' which is sort of the anti-Superman, you know? But it's a lot of fun, too, in a much, much darker way, obviously.

The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations to achieve that result.

If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting.

I feel music-making is more like a psychological game; each film has its own colour that needs to be identified and addressed.