Music Quotes

I came into this music business at 26 years old. I was a fully developed man at that point. At that age, I didn't have anything to prove.

If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions.

My music is touching people in whatever spaces they need to be touched in.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

I think it's such a powerful thing: Words and melodies, and you put them together. I couldn't really picture a world without music. It would be quite boring.

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times.

I am amused with the love people are showing for my songs. I am really happy to see my fans enjoying my music and loving the music I make.

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Most of the time, I'm making music. There'll be moments of my life where I feel like I gotta to take a break and come back to the music. It's hard to explain, but you need to get a break from it and then come back to it. It's like you gotta lose something to appreciate it.

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Music makes me cry.

Good Punjabi music before a match pumps me up. It gives me a kick.

It's so refreshing to just play straight-ahead music with lots of twists.

I think it's important to add a personal aspect to your music - that's what makes it authentic at the end of the day.

Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

There was a time when the music fell silent. Both within me and around me.

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

Music keeps you eternally young. It just does.