Music Quotes

I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

I write music with an exclamation point!

Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

Motown was about music for all people - white and black, blue and green, cops and the robbers. I was reluctant to have our music alienate anyone.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.

Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.

I wrote 'Love Foolish,' and when I heard the music for the first time, it felt like this was a song that Twice hadn't done before. I thought the song and music had a very mature tone, so I wrote the lyrics to match. I was inspired by the music directly.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I had a band with David Gates. There was just a lot of opportunity at that time. But I left for Los Angeles the week after I graduated high school, and I actually left to try to get into the advertising business. That was really why I went out to L.A. My music career was almost an accident.

Music is science more than art, and it is the main code of the universe.

I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.