Quotes About Artistry

My music lives because of real players.

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

I love acting with all my heart and I love music with all my heart.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

I love a little more driving rock and roll vibe and that kind of music has always spoke to me. I guess it just rubs off when I'm writing music.

I respect country music because I feel like it's more about the talent and the songwriting.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.

Music is my personal addiction. So much of everything I've done has only been to open more doors for the music itself. It all gets back to the fact that I am, first of all, a songwriter and a singer.

I turn on the radio now and I don't have anything against a lot of sequenced and programmed and electronic music, a lot of it is dope and it's the future. It's what popular music has evolved to.

I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

I think my music is born out of the music that I personally like to listen to. I love amazing singer-songwriters and diverse artists but it's important to know your strengths.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

I just want my music to measure up to. Part of it's just thinking about my place in history and how this music is going to be perceived, if it's listened to 30, 40 years from now.

These are not necessarily our agendas, but we feel a part of what a performer is, and what a performer has to say is more than just words and music.

With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.

You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.