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Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Every time the industry gets powerful, and corporate thinking dominates what the music is, then the music really pales.

Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.

Folk music is not for a select group of people who feel that maybe he taught them about this music and that it belongs to them. It doesn't belong only to them. It belongs to everyone who's interested in the blueprints of good songwriting.

Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

For me, music is always the language which permits one to converse with the Beyond.

For me music is so passionate. I have to give it my all every time I go onstage.

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.

For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

From Ennio [Morricone] I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.

Goes the song, "we change, we change." But the music is still mine.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

Good music is very close to primitive language.

Good music is wine turned to sound

Great music is in the ear of the beholder.

Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

For better or for worse, music is the language of memory. It is also the language of love.

Great music is great music, period.

However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

How we absorb music is unique. I know what I do. When I'm listening to music, I tend to find myself in a song. That's what really makes you connect is if you feel what that song is saying.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.

I could quite happily just make music because it conjures up a whole visual world for me in my mind.

I do like people who are popular across the years and stuff like that, but I'm not a big pop music fan. I don't listen to the radio unless it's KCRW, like Booka Shade. Yeah, like weird music is what I'm really into right now. But I like anything really. There's just so much. I buy new music almost every day, so there's so much coming in that I don't even have time to listen to something more that twice.

I didn't want to play music because the whole family did it. I wanted to work in a cubicle. I saw Office Space as a young tween and missed the point of the movie. I was like, "This looks good!".

I don't really see huge barriers between any styles of music. My definition of music is "organizing sound and silence into emotion," and that's a very broad definition.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.

I am not the Beatles. I'm me. Paul isn't the Beatles...The Beatles are the Beatles. Separately, they are separate.

I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music.

I felt a kinship with country music, because country has lyrics that tell stories

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

If I go to a nightclub, even if the music is good, if the sound system is not, I don't stay.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

If I'll be sexualized, it wouldn't be because I was wearing sexy clothes, because I look like a baby. But music is an inherently sexual thing. If something sexual is going to be expressed, it's going to be in my music.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.