Quotes About Artistry

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me

The soul of our music, The Monkees' music, lies somewhere inbetween the 1 1/2 , the 2 1/2, the 3 3/4 and th giant C-major chord on the piano!

Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling.

I was very drawn to music of all types, from Beethoven to Jimi Hendrix. There were musicians and composers who obviously were expressing a vision that was beyond the mundane.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

I'm in a band, and we play music. And that's sort of my way of still being a rock star.

There's a thin line between interesting music and self-indulgence. We crossed it on the Passengers record.

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music.

I have an intense desire to constantly make music, and I don't feel that way about anything else.

I love interpreting other people's music.

I see artists as a great battalion moving through paint, words, music towards cosmological interpretation.

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

My friends joke that I'm dead until I get onstage. I'm dead right now as you're speaking to me.

I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

You're not going to hear me singing songs about Wall Street because I don't know anything about that.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

I wanted to be famous for my music and my talent, and I always wished I could cut it out when I left the stage.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.