Quotes About Music

Genuine music, to me, is the one which has no purpose. It should be as natural and as purposeless as the flow of the river.

My purpose in performing is to communicate the joy I experience in living.

I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don't mind that sense of duty.

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

I wouldn't call myself a synaesthete in the sense that Nabokov was. But I'll talk about a sound as being cold blue or dark brown. For descriptive purposes, yes, I often see colors when I'm listening to music and think, 'Oh, there's not enough sort of yellowy stuff in here, or not enough white.'

This is one of the major purposes of soul and jazz music; to state what you feel.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

I really wanted to pursue music, but all those other girls are doing it and it is annoying.

Music was something I had put aside to make movies. Somehow I earlier felt there was only so much creative energy allotted to your life and only that much time to pursue your creativity. But I was wrong.

I never wanted to impress anyone nor had to complete my education just so that my parents could allow me to pursue music.

After my day at the Uni winded up, I used to go and perform gigs - I used to look forward to playing in front of an audience. It was when people came to me and gave me positive feedback that I got the confidence to pursue this as a dream.

After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'

There was absolutely no pressure from the family. It was my choice to pursue a career in music. I always wanted to do music, which has been close to heart. In fact, I was dead sure about it.

Coming back to America to pursue music is a dream.

It is important for children to learn, whether they want to pursue music or any other field.

When I was 11, I decided that music was what I wanted to pursue as a career.

Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three.

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.

Because everybody always encouraged me to sing, I assumed that I wasn't bad at it. It felt like it was obvious what I was going to pursue. I thought I was good for as long as I can remember.

I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.

Music is definitely something that I'd like to pursue. It's probably, I mean, the acting and music are the two biggest things in my life.

Music has been a huge passion of mine ever since I started playing the piano at age 3. Going to concerts, performing on my own, and listening to my favorite artists growing up confirmed that love for music and made me want to pursue it as a career.

When I was 15, my mom and I packed everything up and moved to Nashville so I could pursue my dream in music.

I listen to so much music every day, so that's such a big part of my life. To be able to pursue that and put out my own stuff is definitely a goal. I don't want to put something out that I'm not proud of because I think it's so easy to say, 'I'm an actress/musician.'