Music Quotes and Sayings

I didn't think I liked country music. Then I got into Garth Brooks.

Country • Country Music • Garth • Music • Think

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and gives our lives to it.

Band • Lifetime Musicians • Like • Lives • Music • Musicians • Our • Proud

Good music makes you feel something.

Feel • Good • Good Music • Makes • Music • Something • You

I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.

Country • Electronic Music Either • Ever • Making • Music • Stop • Want

I'm no different than any other human being. I play music for a living, and we're very blessed.

Blessed • Different • Human • Living • Music • Play

I've been making some more electronic music, which I really enjoy doing.

Been • Doing • Electronic Music • Enjoy • Making • More • Music

I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.

About • Because • Care • Much • Music • Opinionated • Songs

We've gone further on this album, where we have a Big Band song, kind of a Sinatra-type song; we have a couple songs that have electronic music on them. We've got a couple rock songs, maybe a little heavier than what we've done. So the title 'Jekyll & Hyde' really covers the breadth of the record.

Album • Band • Big Band Song Kind • Breadth • Couple Rock Songs • Done • Kind • Little Heavier • Music • Record • Rock • Sinatratype • Song • Title Jekyll Amp Hyde

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.

Country • Country Music • Great • Home • Me • Music • Song

The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

Band • Chemistry • Creating • Living • Music • Translates • You • Your

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work – what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.

Lot • Love • Music • People • Something • Time • Us • Work • World

I was a music fan first way before I started creating it, so I still get giddy when I get to be around people that I respect so much.

Creating • Music • Music Fan First Way • People • Respect • Way

Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.

Difference • Gift • Help • Incredible Gift • Make A Difference • Music • Us

My brother's 21 years older than me, so I grew up doing more adult things. Like listening to old music.

Adult Things • Brother • Doing • Listening • Me • Music • Old music • Up • Years Older

All my siblings being all different ages meant I got exposed to music that was 20-30 years older than me. And that was a big influence.

Big • Different Ages Meant • Got • Influence • Me • Music • Siblings • Years

Maybe some people that only listen to electronic music will pick up my record and get turned on to some of the story songs, some of the more country-type stuff.

Electronic Music • Music • People • Record • Some People • Story • Turned • Will

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

Back • Listen • Loud • Loud Music • Love • Music • Part • Play • Record • Thing

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

Joseph Henry T Bone Burnett

Bloody • Civil War • Civil War Music • Full • Hatred • Me • Music • Thing • Vitriol • War • You

Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

O'Shea Jackson Jr

Film • First Love • Love • Me • Music • You

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

Art • Country • High Regard • Language • Loser • Music • Otherwise • Success

My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

Art • Artist • Good • Music • Question • Who

It was interesting to find how dominating American vision is all over the world. I think there's something to be said about the world's mindset and its economics and all of that, and I think it affects the way we see ourselves and it affects music.

Dominating American Vision • Economics • Interesting • Mindset • Music • Something • Think • Vision • World

I have moments of darkness, of anger, and moments of rage. They do creep up at the most inopportune times. Not to recognize that in my music would give people a sense of sainthood that I don't necessarily have or even want to have.

Anger • Creep • Darkness • Inopportune • Moments • Music • People • Rage • Recognize • Sainthood • Sense • Times

I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

Doing • Important • Labels • Lot • Many • Me • Music • Music Whether • Often • People • Recognized • Something • Song • Times • Work

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

More • Music • Music Consciously • Musician • Own • Planet • Stigmas • Undervalued Positions • Younger

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

Enjoy • Games • Movies Music • Music • Now • People • Television • Video • Video Games

We always focus on the quality of music because as long as the content is good, then the interest will be there.

Content • Focus • Good • Interest • Long • Music • Quality • Will

Every Chanel show I've been to is very conceptual. Even down to the music and smells, the whole thing is connected.

Conceptual • Connected • Down • Every Chanel • Music • Show • Smells • Thing • Whole

When I create a song, I immediately think about what I'm going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I'm going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it's a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

Almost • Connection • Look • Me • Music • Music Video Treatment • Obvious • Outfit • Package • Single • Song • Stage • Think • Tool

When I don't look cool enough or when I cannot make good music anymore, I will retire.

Cool • Enough • Good • Good Music • Look • Music • Will

Whether it's music or fashion, the older I get, I realize what's comfortable lasts longer.

Comfortable • Fashion • Lasts • Music • Older • Realize

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

Being • Come • Excessive • Music • Realize • Realize Ways • Without

Korean people, including me, want to go faster and faster – in music, in fashion, in art, too.

Art • Fashion • Faster • Me • Music • People • Want

I wasn't trying to be famous when I started making music. I mean, that wasn't the first thing I wanted.

Famous • First • First Thing • Mean • Music • Trying

I just listened to regular commercial music from Korea. I would just follow the choreographed dance routines. I didn't have any ambitions of pursuing rapping. I liked dancing, so I did that.

Ambitions • Choreographed Dance • Commercial • Dance • Dancing • Did • Follow • Just • Korea • Music • Pursuing • Rapping • Regular • Routines

There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.

Access Rap Music • Hiphop Collective • Korea • Mom • Music • People • Place • Real Place • School • Summer School Program • Taught • Time

As a musician myself, I wouldn't be confident if I received some other composers' song, because I choose to express myself through the music that I make.

Choose • Composers • Confident • Music • Musician • Myself • Song

We make our own music, and the songs appeal to the public well, and the public likes them.

Likes • Music • Our • Own • Public • Songs • Well

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

Call • Just • Kpop • Music • Music Kpop • Never • Obviously • Our • Thought

I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me 'Enter the 36th Chambers.' It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it's hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos.

Different Albums • Find • Friend • Hard • Harder • Homegrown • Look • Me • Music • PreInternet • Th Chambers • Videos

It would be better to be recognized first for music, but people go with what they like. If I'm here because I'm recognized more so as a style icon, then, if I'm smart enough, I will use this opportunity to share more insight about my music.

Better • Enough • Icon • Music • Opportunity • People • Recognized • Recognized First • Smart • Style

The stage is our pulpit, and you can use all of that energy and that music and the lights and the colors and the sound. But you know, you've got to be careful.

Careful • Colors • Energy • Know • Lights • Music • Pulpit • Stage • You

The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.

Art • Balance • Between • Business • Commercialism • Crazy • Fine • Game • Guns • Line • Me • Music • Pressures • Purist • Somebody • Tightrope

Coming up, the music of my era was very conscious. I grew up on Public Enemy, and it was popular culture to be aware. People were wearing Malcolm X T-shirts and Malcolm X hats. It was a very cool thing to know who Malcolm X was. It was all in the lyrics. It was trendy to be conscious and aware.

Aware • Conscious • Cool • Cool Thing • Culture • Hats • Know • Lyrics • Malcolm • Music • People • Popular • Public • Trendy • Tshirts

I was a singing disc jockey who heard every type of music there was – and loved it all.

Every Type • Heard • Loved • Music • Singing • Singing Disc Jockey • Type • Who

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop – I can't think of any music I don't like.

Jazz • Jazz Rock • Like • Music • Rock • Roll • Think

I don't care for the music when they're talking bad about women because I think women are God's greatest gift to the planet – I just like music.

Bad • Care • Gift • God • Music • Think • Women

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

Blues • Kind • Music • Nobody • Old • Something • Years

I liked blues from the time my mother used to take me to church. I started to listen to gospel music, so I liked that. But I had an aunt at that time, my mother's aunt who bought records by people like Lonnie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and a few others.

Blind • Johnson • Listen • Lonnie • Me • Mother • Music • People • Records • Time