Thinking Music Quotes

#1. I am always thinking music.

Ted Leo

#2. We think that this is just our world and we don't know what other people are thinking. Music actually is a phenomenal connector in that respect. It's a special language that defines certain boundaries and connects people in a particular way, a very emotional way, I have found.

Annie Lennox

#3. I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

Charlie Sheen

#4. The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.

Saul Williams

#5. I enjoy looking like a tart and thinking like a politician.

PJ Harvey

#6. My head phones always allow me to listen to myself

Saahil Prem

#7. Music causes us to think eloquently.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. I would always find a way to blow the deal and I'm not sure why. I think there was part of me that wasn't comfortable with monetizing the music and getting involved with royalties and all that kind of stuff.

Oscar Isaac

#9. I like to think that the music is a mixture of personal experiences mixed with photography and movies.

Sune Rose Wagner

#10. Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

George Carlin

#11. I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.

William Shakespeare

#12. Music didn't really hit me again until the '90s, when the dancehall scene got going. The '90s were perfect for me. I would have really liked to have had The Slits out in the '90s again, to do tours and albums, because I think the '90s was a brilliant decade for music.

Ari Up

#13. In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.

Charles Ives

#14. I think the Internet has hurt music more than it has helped it. The idea of giving music away for free just bothers me. And, when one band or artist gives it away, it devalues the rest of the product from those who would like to make some money or a living from it.

Steve Mahoney

#15. When I was growing up, hip-hop music existed as American thing. If you listened to it you were listening to an American subculture, whereas now you're just listening to pop music that everyone shares. I think that's big.

Jonas Carpignano

#16. Maybe my audiences can enjoy my music more if they think I'm destroying myself.

Janis Joplin

#17. I have been thinking about what might happen if they installed clappers to turn on and off the lights in a concert hall. Maybe they could spare the cost of hiring some people for the next rock concert.

Linnea Gelland

#18. I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.

Walt Disney

#19. I would like for people to not be stuck by the rules of what is expected of a classical musician. If you really want to do something different, don't be afraid to do so. Think of music itself and not the rules or expectations of people.

Charlie Albright

#20. I'm interested in what happens to music when other people use it. Whereas there are composers who don't like anyone to touch their music, I think people should because they do things I can't think of.

Philip Glass

#21. I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick ... maker.

Joshua Homme

#22. As much as I am a huge soccer fan, music just kills it when it comes to importance. I could go to a desert island without a football and survive happily, but if I had to go without music, I think I'd end up killing myself. It fuels my soul. It always has.

Joe Elliott

#23. Traveling changed my personality and gave me ability to do the music I do and to think in a certain way that everything can be possible.

Rokia Traore

#24. The beauty of Broadway is that if I'm 60 or 70 years old, if they'll accept me back, I can go back. So I think for right now I'm going to focus on the music
it's the new baby
and see how it's going to work out, and then maybe in a few years maybe I'll go back.

Heather Headley

#25. I think there's good music out there. I just think that radio stations don't play it.

Robert Glasper

#26. I think whether dance music had exploded in America, I still would've been a DJ a long time. This is my first love.

A-Trak

#27. Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and feel. If we are to hope for a society of culturally literate people, music must be a vital part of our children's education.

Yo-Yo Ma

#28. I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tim McGraw

#29. I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.

Talib Kweli

#30. I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.

Claudio Simonetti

#31. That's why I played music; my social skills were limited. I think a lot of people that experience that pick up guitars, because they can't communicate otherwise.

Ryan Adams

#32. Music for me is something I prefer to keep away form the whole business part of my life. I feel like everything I do, in a way, has some sort of business around it. So with my music I can have my privacy. If people don't have to pay for it then I think they can be a little more open to new ideas.

Milla Jovovich

#33. I recognise a lot of myself in these kids who enter shows like Pop Idol. It's very hard to get into the music industry and you have to take every opportunity that you can. Something like Pop Idol is a great opportunity but unfortunately, I think it's tainted by the people that make these shows.

Melanie Chisholm

#34. This is going to sound crazy, but I can hear music in my head. I can imagine a piano or a guitar playing, and I can sort of think out ...

Ryan Adams

#35. I think that if people get my music, then they get what my message is.

Courtney Barnett

#36. I guess I think of a musical as something in which the music is sort of like the engine of the piece - whether it is in the theatre or in film.

John Kander

#37. I think the music business is changing. Artists that don't want to tour and just want to collect royalty checks and stay home are not going to be able to do that.

Steve Earle

#38. Music changes, but there's a timeless touch that we put to it, which I think is really important.

Danny Gokey

#39. I think that part of my success was the fact that I would literally threaten your life if you got in-between me and what I wanted to do with my music. I was so drunk and in-your-face and so ADHD and so unhinged that I kind of got what I wanted.

Richard Patrick

#40. Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

Robbie Robertson

#41. Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

Frank Zappa

#42. I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.

Darren Hayes

#43. Well, I've been on stage my whole life. Also, when you're doing music videos, a lot of people don't understand. They think you just go up there, do the song, and they film the video. You do it like a jillion times before that though. Same thing in the studio.

Glenn Danzig

#44. When I got a little bit older I wanted to play piano - that's all I wanted to do. I remember learning how to play a blues progression on the xylophone in music class and thinking "This is the greatest thing I've ever learned."

Zooey Deschanel

#45. I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

David Crosby

#46. I think music should be judged on what it is. It should be very high and above everything else. It is a beautiful way of bringing people together, a little bit of an oasis in this messed-up world.

Sonny Rollins

#47. World music evokes a feeling. You don't have to think about the scene that it comes from.

St. Lucia

#48. I wake up every day and think about what I am to other people. What I am to the people I employ, who depend on me to wake up and do my job that day and keep this career going? I think about what I am to the kids who listen to my music and all the other people involved in this project.

Halsey

#49. Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger ... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#50. When I am at peace with myself ... then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say ... I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#51. I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Charlie Parker

#52. I was thinking the other day that there will never be another form of music that everybody has to respond to - like disco.

Daniel Clowes

#53. I would love to be friends with Kendrick Lamar because I am just a huge fan of his music, I think he is so cool and he uses so many interesting sounds and has such good melodies and is just a beautiful rapper, his raps are just so well-written and his tracks are so insane, I am obsessed with him.

Alana Haim

#54. That was part of the whole original concept. We were thinking, it's off-season, let's do a really fun, local-oriented event, raise money for good causes and bring some music to the valley.

Andy Kaufman

#55. We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually.

Beth Gibbons

#56. Surround yourself with music. Just be sure to turn the radio on.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#57. Hollywood is about playing the game, and I can't think of any successful actresses who didn't play the game. There's a lot more renegades in the music business, from Patti Smith to Janis Joplin.

Madonna Ciccone

#58. Labels want to capture a certain market of kids and blah blah blah, and it's true, I just never think about that stuff. It's all part of a chain that's moving along, but this phase of music has to switch.

Marnie Stern

#59. I'm proud to be white. I don't have anything against my color. But I don't think color matters, either. Just like I feel it doesn't matter that I'm a white dude doin' black music.

Mark Wahlberg

#60. I think in Baroque music, especially in the case of Bach, what really transformed Bach's musical language, what changed it for him was hearing Vivaldi, hearing the sort of manipulation of small cells of information and patterns in order to generate sort of huge blocks of harmony.

Mahan Esfahani

#61. To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important.

Andre Benjamin

#62. I think there's just so much awesome music coming out of New Zealand, I've always loved The Naked And Famous, I absolutely love Ghost Wave ... it just seems like there's a really cool scene happening out there, I'd love to go and spend some time there and see what other bands are popping up.

Lizzy Plapinger

#63. I still love the music and it's still plays a part in what I do but I never 'turned my back' on garage. I was always doing R&B with, say, Walking Away. It's wonderful that I was classed as the king of 2-step and a pioneer, but it's had its turn, I think.

Craig David

#64. Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

Maira Kalman

#65. I have said many times-if I hadn't been exposed to music as a child I don't think I would have been president.

William J. Clinton

#66. You don't have to be musician to listen to music, and you don't have to be a filmmaker to go to the cinema, but somehow when we think of science, we think of it only as an academic discipline.

Dallas Campbell

#67. That's for non-musicians to say: "I only listen to this or that type of music." I think musicians love all music, or at least that's my case.

Paul Banks

#68. I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

Trent Reznor

#69. I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.

Bradford Cox

#70. I remember seeing McCoy Tyner in concert, and thinking that the music was incredible, but wanting to be invited in. I figured that humor was the way of letting the audience in. I've gotten a hard time about it, but I love to be funny onstage.

John Lurie

#71. I started learning the piano at the age of 4 or 5, so I think I already liked music then.

Yoko Shimomura

#72. Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music.

Drake

#73. I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music ... What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!

Eva Jessye

#74. It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

Greg Brown

#75. I think a lot of the more successful artists of our time basically have barracudas for managers

Robben Ford

#76. I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

Zach Condon

#77. My drawings are another kind of music for me ... they relax me and I think they all connect somehow.

Shelby Lynne

#78. I was raised playing music in coffeehouses and I feel that was the foundation for my career. I think it is important that we remember where we came from.

Jason Mraz

#79. For me, when I watch something without music, I'm instantly thinking, "Okay, what am I going to do here? How am I going to convey this?" I take notes and really think about that.

Joseph Trapanese

#80. I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.

Albert Ayler

#81. I'd like it to be a bit of everything, the kind of music you can dance to, but also something a bit more personal, that you can listen to in other contexts. I think it's very important to maintain the contrasts between the different types of music that I make.

Shook

#82. When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music ...

Gustav Ejstes

#83. I think all kinds of music are being made. No one hears them. There's so much emphasis on a certain kind of music. It's difficult to find music nowadays. You have to make the effort to find it.

Mirel Wagner

#84. Music connects with the soul. I think it's the quickest art form to the soul.

Chris Tomlin

#85. It is just so cool to play on the beach right next to the water. I am deeply moved by water as I think most people are - so to play music with it is a most powerful experience.

Jim James

#86. Music is how I get free. It's a way to shut the rest of the world down and create your own world within it. I'm not thinking about what's going on around me. It's definitely an energy thing, and I'm in a zone.

Gift Of Gab

#87. Music gives infinite strength.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#88. I was never really seeking to play music. I knew I wanted to do it, but I think I wasn't seeking it out because it seemed so abstract to me.

Kevin Morby

#89. I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."

Steven Wright

#90. If you think of any long-term artist that makes music throughout several decades, you would hope that it's autobiographical and a form of self-expression, and that's certainly how I approach my music.

DJ Shadow

#91. I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

Charles Lamb

#92. I've started thinking about pure electronic music again. Something very melodic, very aggressive.

Squarepusher

#93. I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music.

John Lennon

#94. I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Gram Parsons

#95. If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#96. Music is one of my greatest loves. I don't think I would be able to live without music in my life.

Naya Rivera

#97. Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

Brenda Ueland

#98. I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

Lil B

#99. I think that sexual pleasure and the weird color of the sky after a storm or the stream of tail lights across the bridge or the way silence can thin or thicken before music starts - all these things have to be harnessed by the political. The libidinal has to be harnessed by the political.

Ben Lerner

#100. Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

Joan Jett