Music Quotes

"I still dabble in different types of music, but I'm sticking to my Country roots."

"What's missing from pop music is danger."

"I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star."

"Live music is the cure for what ails ya."

"What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings."

"The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space."

"My life so common it disappears and sometimes even music cannot substitute for tears."

"What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it."

"The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed."

"Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle."

"I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America."

"I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that."

"Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."

"Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words."

"I'm a little bit of a control freak when it comes to my music, unfortunately."

"People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to."

"One of my goals from really early on was that if I was ever fortunate enough to be successful in music, I would want to stay the same person and the same songwriter."

"I think music is something that can, and should, be used to get you into different things because eventually what goes up must come down - we're not going to be the number one group in the world forever - so you have to have something else to fall back on."

"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."

"We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only."

"All I try to do is to write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it."

"My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."

"I was very camera shy. People like hot girls, so I put my music to hot girls and it just became a trend. The whole 'enigmatic artist' thing, I just ran with it. No one could find pictures of me."

"When you're playing country music, you have to tell the truth."

"I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings."

"I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today."

"I felt like I had a really bad case of writer's block... Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing."

"For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift."

"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken."

"Unless I am both capable of and willing to reopen the wound every time I write a song, if I choose to not look inside myself to write music, I'm really not worth being called an artist at all."

"Country music is my life."

"I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?"

"One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance."

"A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting."

"Philosophy is the highest music."

"I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?"

"Even in high school, I went through a lot of relationship issues, and that's at the center of my music."

"I'm all for a good slow song and I love all different kinds of music."

"Pop music has been exhausted. The innocence has been exhausted. I think we've lost the ability to be blown away by music."

"Music is a safe kind of high."

"I don't really believe in the type of pressure that people are wanting to put on the type of music that I make."

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

"You make your music, then you try to find whatever audience is out there for it."

"The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head."

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth."

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings."

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining."

"I listen to music all day every day. I can't not listen to music. It's kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it's what I love, and it's all I care about, so I'm good with it."

"Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now."

"My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball."