Top 100 New Music Quotes
#1. I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.
Alan Palomo
#2. I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I'm on iTunes constantly just buying new music!
Austin Butler
#3. My love is new music, I tend to go and see a lot of bands, while [co-producer] Mark Cooper spends his time reading the press. It's often the new acts that strike a chord, because they aren't seen on other shows.
Jools Holland
#4. I've always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it's good.
Eddie Trunk
#5. In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication.
Yoko Ono
#7. It's not about me - it's like, "How can I help you?" And when you give like that, you receive so much. It was an incredible experience, but it also gave me that bug: I wanted new music so badly.
Gwen Stefani
#8. I'm inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art.
Alicia Keys
#9. Sometimes it's hard to listen to new music and get motivated, because it's elementary to me - no disrespect to new artists, because that's where we started, too. But it's like they're way back there in first grade, and I'm in college.
DJ Quik
#10. I feel like you should be confident in whatever you do, and a lot of my new music [that's coming out] I want people to judge more so than the music I've put out recently, because I feel like it's really changed a lot.
Big Sean
#11. The fearsome critic and not-very-tough composer Virgil Thomson once drew up a set of rules for hearing an unfamiliar work; the last of those is the question I take with me to every new-music event: "Is this just a good piece of clockwork, or does it actually tell time?
Aaron Copland
#12. At first people thought I was really arrogant and a snob about music because I'm so intense about my production and sound, and because they knew I didn't like new music so much.
Lenny Kravitz
#13. And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.
James Young
#14. You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.
George Clinton
#15. I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.
CC Sabathia
#16. The difference is that they [Europeans] don't have that culture about hip-hop as a lifestyle, a way of life; for them it's more of the new trend, the new music that you have to like.
K-Maro
#17. For me the only way I can thank God for his ever-present creation is to offer him a new music impressed of a beauty which nobody had previously understood ... the music we play is one long prayer, a message coming from God
Albert Ayler
#18. A woman's past need not predict her future. She can dance to new music if she chooses. Her own music. To hear the tune, she must only stop talking. To herself, I mean. We're always trying to persuade ourselves of things." I
Lisa Wingate
#19. YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.
Jake Bugg
#20. I'm coming up with new music, I'm in the best shape of my life, I'm real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I'm just following the energy. That's how I sum that up.
Doug E. Fresh
#21. I love every type of listening format, from MP3s to CDs to vinyl. There's something special about each one. It's a sign of the times. I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!
Brendon Urie
#22. My hope is to continue to make new music and go with the flow. I think I'll always be creative. I want to keep making good music, put myself into positions where I need to rise to the occasion of playing in front of an audience, and continually get better at what I'm doing.
Vance Joy
#23. If anybody is excited about my music, that's all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music.
Diplo
#24. I'm just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I'm hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube.
Liz Phair
#25. Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.
Jeff Lynne
#27. What I value most in new music is strangeness, oddity. Passion. And humor. I listen to a lot of hip-hop because it combines so many things like that.
Carrie Brownstein
#28. From my time in 'King Crimson,' I'd describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music.
Tony Levin
#29. I don't feel bound by the ebbs and flows of musical trends, or what's happening with new music in general.
Kevin Shields
#30. I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
Talib Kweli
#31. I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.
Hoodie Allen
#32. The whole underlying theme for the new music ... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.
Charlie Haden
#33. My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.
Jason Mraz
#34. The only person who really impressed me with making new music is Cudi. Everyone else seems to be jumping on the same music, the producer-made stuff, but the one person that's made new music to me is Cudi.
Lupe Fiasco
#35. I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.
Billy Sherwood
#36. In many ways I'm an experimental and new music composer that comes from a rural tradition rather than an urban one.
Sxip Shirey
#37. My new music video, 'My Life' featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.
Curtis Jackson
#38. After I had my youngest son,I took time for him and just spent more time with my family. But, I know it's time to get back to work. I am working on new music.
Heather Headley
#39. When I come around people, I'm up to date on everything. I know all the new music that's coming out, all the stuff that ain't came out yet.
Juicy J
#40. Or consider "Here Without You" by 3 Doors Down, or almost any song by the group Maroon 5. Those bands are so featureless that critics and listeners created a new music category - "bath rock" - to describe their tepid sounds. Yet whenever they came on the radio, almost no one changed the station.
Charles Duhigg
#41. I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk.
Rick Rubin
#42. As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.
Mike Gordon
#44. There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single.
Jamelia
#45. London is a dead duck, as far as innovative new music is concerned, unless you want to have your head blown off with some outrageous, rubbish, pounding dance music.
Jeff Beck
#46. The proliferation of new music groups and individual performers focusing on new music today is heartening. On the one hand the culture is very resistant to new things, and yet it continues to change and grow.
Michael Hersch
#47. In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger' ...
Helmut Lachenmann
#48. I listen to new music by composers who are interesting to me. I listen to some; I don't know if I want to call it pop, but it's some interesting artist that gets my attention, I listen to in the mornings.
Tod Machover
#49. I think this insatiable need to get to know new music is a big part of why it has lasted so long.
Bent Saether
#50. I've already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I'm gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it's ready and then I'll just let it go.
Fergie
#51. I think it will be fun to not only play new music, but to get to play different instruments on-stage.
Bethany Cosentino
#52. I'm overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music.
Melanie Brown
#53. I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that's popping.
Juicy J
#54. I'm constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music.
Rivers Cuomo
#55. I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.
Gyorgy Ligeti
#56. When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!
Bela Fleck
#57. I can't leave home without certain movies. 'The Godfather' is a big one for me. And I've gotta have my beats so I can write new music.
Nayvadius Cash
#58. Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.
Lou Gramm
#59. I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we're excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle.
Drew Barrymore
#60. As a DJ, it's my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that's coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I've always gravitated to something that's just different, you know?
Diplo
#61. In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.
Adrian Grenier
#62. I look forward to the future - and going into the studio to make new music.
Diana Ross
#63. I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I'm working on.
Clint Black
#64. I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past.
Henry Rollins
#65. I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
Leila Josefowicz
#66. I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
Gary Lucas
#67. The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.
Juice Newton
#68. I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.
Heidi Montag
#69. I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can't get it.
Prince
#70. I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
Billy Sherwood
#71. The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.
Richard Flanagan
#72. I'm happy about the fact that my audience is very open to new music. They're dying for new music. So all I got to do is get up there and show them what I'm doing, and they go oh yeah, I like that.
Kenny Loggins
#73. I have a lot of new music that I'm very excited about.
Kate Brown
#74. For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important.
Nikki Sixx
#75. I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I'd love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I'm also working on getting some new music out of my own.
Katherine McNamara
#76. I recently saw Brooke Hogan's new music video, and I've got to say she looked hot.
Randy Orton
#77. Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
Bobby Vinton
#78. The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.
Gavin Bryars
#79. The thing is, I really can't relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way - an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don't listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.
Michael Cera
#80. The biggest thing for me is the new music. I'm playing a lot of new music that is not released yet on my tours. Seeing the reaction to that is super inspiring.
G-Eazy
#81. Bands are about these little relationships that make everything tick, and when you create new music you're testing those relationships.
Jonathan Cain
#82. When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that's the new music. When I hear older people saying, 'I hate Rap or Techno' I rush to it.
George Clinton
#83. There will be no new music until it's good enough and until I'm ready.
Adele
#84. I'm always asking friends what new music they're into, and I love showing people new talented artists.
Mark Hoppus
#85. Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.
Dave Navarro
#86. I don't see why people want new plays all the time. What would happen to concerts if people wanted new music all the time?
Clive Barnes
#87. I love just going out; long drives, the ocean, my kids, new music, new gear, new plug-ins, coffee, and donuts at four in the morning. Even just waking up and writing.
John Feldmann
#88. Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there's so many different experiences.
Kip Moore
#89. You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.
Sebastian Bach
#90. When i want to hear new music, i make it
Prince
#91. The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band ... '
Mark Hoppus
#92. The American new music scene is remarkably vibrant.
Michael Hersch
#93. I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music.
Nick Jonas
#94. Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.
Elliott Carter
#95. I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music'd out.
Justin Vernon
#96. We always get back to old soul singers like Nina Simone, and how her recordings sound. Also new music like Tobacco, or people that use a mixture of analog and electronic music.
Jose Gonzalez
#97. I don't think anyone listening to my music needs any special knowledge. They don't need to have a background in contemporary music. They don't need to go to new-music concerts all the time in order to be able to understand it.
Missy Mazzoli
#98. You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
Casey Abrams
#99. I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.
Doug E. Fresh
#100. Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn't be settled on the spot.
Marvin Ammori
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