Quotes About Music

We think accolades are nice, awards are great, but we make music for the people.

My mother was this force of nature when it came to both communication with people and the whole of learning music. She's a champion.

Performing live is difficult. But nobody's forcing us to do it.

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game.

I've been blessed from the very beginning with the large gay audience, and I'm flattered. They always have the best taste anyways and are at the forefront of fashion, music, and style. So I'm really happy about that and very flattered. It's a good following to have because it means you're doing something right.

I feel so lucky that I feel the music is at the forefront of Audioslave, and the songs are the most important thing.

We still play Foreigner songs. I play the songs that I was involved in writing.

American rock was, and still is to some extent, a closed shop. REO Speedwagon, Toto, Boston, Foreigner all those bands, and I wouldn't be able to tell which from which.

My first band, we wanted to be like Foreigner and Journey.

First and foremost I am a drummer. After that, I'm other things... But I didn't play drums to make money.

I've been blessed enough to have my eyes open because of music, first and foremost.

The inspiration behind 'Tardy for the Party' was first and foremost my daughter Brielle. She co-wrote the original lyrics when she was nine years old.

The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.

Poetry, first and foremost, is the lyric. It's the music.

The music has always been the first and foremost element in our career.

I am a singer, first and foremost, but the medium happens to be the cello.

That's how I want to be with stuff: I always want to be in country music, first and foremost, forever.

We've never been ashamed of the fact we are, first and foremost, a pop band.

If we're going to go really deep, we're all trying to live forever. My music is my way of doing that.

I understand what songs like 'Mr Brightside' mean to people. They will last forever.

Nothing is ever a barometer. Nothing is ever for sure except that this band has been around forever.

I'm an auditory learner, and if you put something into a song, I'll remember it forever.

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.