Top 1200 Cool Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I knew in my heart that I wasn't cool, but I figured I could at least be cool by association.

Am I really cool? You're telling me I'm cool? Well, that's good to hear.

Live performances make music important. Recording is cool and fun, and it's nice to document the thing you made, but the goal in my mind is to perform.

I thought it was so cool that all you knew about Prince was about his artistry and music.

And looking at today's music scene, I think it's cool that there are a lot of consumers and fans not limited by what radio and the record companies tell them to buy.

Alabama is somebody that I have always loved, but I think what is so cool about them - it's amazing, actually - is that even people who aren't enormous fans, you know their music. You know of them; you know what they've done in the music world. I think that really says something about them.

I've always loved punk music, so it was really cool to do my first punk song.

Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music.

Being a ballet dancer isn't cool. Football, boxing, hockey... they're cool. And you make more money.

My older brother was cool, so I was suddenly cool by association. And I totally dusted all my old math friends.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what’s really cool.

I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.

I guess I would use my son's word: cool. It was cool to work in the White House.

I don't expect to seem cool to everyone; nor do I want to be. I think that's the opposite of the definition of cool. So I don't care at all.

I always say, 'If it looks good on a T-shirt, it would probably be a pretty cool title or cool song.'

I am my father's son. My sticking to my guns and doing it my way, and standing firm - that's definitely from him. And the music side, I was so lucky to have a dad that was as cool as he was.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

The easiest way to make something cool is to get cool people to do it. Part of this might mean the president has to forget tensions with opponents, or people like Arnold Schwarzenegger who has actually been decent with oil issues. Maybe he needs to pull some of the cool people in and make them model the right behaviors.

I'm not that cool in real life. I'm only cool in a goofy way.

I really enjoy traveling to... I went to Spain. That was really cool. Japan was really cool. France was really cool.

The cool thing about G.O.O.D. Music is it's a bunch of great ideas, and I'm one of those ideas.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I think the best way to listen to my music is through recording. I would love to be one of those artists where you can go into a coffee shop and watch people pass by and then my music is in their ears. Not necessarily a sensory deprivation thing, but that's cool too. Unfortunately in order to focus on nobody else, you would probably have to go into a dark room and just sit there and listen to it.

I grew up on rap and hip-hop and fell into dance music. Hip-hop died down, and I moved more into dance music, disco and house. It feels very natural. My rhythm growing up on hip-hop and R&B was cool, fresh, and I feel comfortable with it.

Jazz was always cool. That was what I liked about jazz - it was always cool. Now I see the cats that were basically cool getting kind of uncool. So that ruins what I feel about jazz.

People think it's not necessary to talk to another human being, and that's the part of it that I don't like. Some people will go up and want to talk to you about the music, which is cool; they're enthusiastic about the songs and know stuff about it, or, 'I really like your music. Nice to meet you.'

The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

British music lovers in general are dreadfully concerned about being cool, but I'm quite happy to grab uncool by the horns at any opportunity.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

There aren't many things that are universally cool, and it's cool not to litter. I'd never do it.

I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn't think it was cool.

Clark Gregg is so cool. He's a pretty cool cat. People are drawn to him.

LL Cool J should be the spokesman for a line of pajamas called Ladies Love Cool Jammies.

There's no such thing as being cool. People who pretend to be cool have more emotional layers.

Danny Trejo is so bloody cool, I mean, he can just stand there and look cool.

Everywhere in New York is cool to see and cool to photograph.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Being cool, having a 'cool' energy is just not attractive to me.

I don't think I'm very cool as a person. I'm just better than anyone else at acting cool.

Madonna working with Justin Timberlake is supposed be cool but I don't think there's anything cool about it.

If people are cool, then they are not stressed. I pity the fool that don't be cool.

That's going to be the biggest problem, to make people feel like it's cool for them to like my music.

I think it's interesting to have a cool character not look so cool, you know?

What is cool today is not going to be cool tomorrow, and what wasn't cool yesterday is going to be cool tomorrow.

Flamenco is Arabic music and rhythms filtered through centuries of gypsies making music. The gypsies themselves came originally from India. And then there is the Caribbean influences... This whole idea that there is any such thing in music that "purity" is bunk, it just doesn't exist. I love that I am playing these rhythms to people. And the next time they hear something that's maybe a little more exotic, I have created a little bridge, and they are going, "Oh, this actually sounds really cool. It reminds me a little bit of that, but it's something different."

I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, "I'm gonna be a rock star," or "I'm gonna be in a band." It was more "I just play piano, and I'm always going to play piano. That's who I am and that's cool." I think music became so ingrained in me that it was not even my choice.

Birth of the Cool' became a collector's item, I think, out of a reaction to Bird and Dizzy's music. Bird and Diz played this hip, real fast thing, and if you weren't a fast listener, you couldn't catch the humor or the feeling in their music. Their musical sound wasn't sweet, and it didn't have harmonic lines that you could easily hum out on the street with your girlfriend trying to get over with a kiss.

The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.

All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds.

As a kid, I always idolized entrepreneurs. I thought they were cool people in the way that I thought basketball players were cool people. It's cool that some people get paid to dunk basketballs, but I'm not one of those people.

Only cool people care about the origin stories of why they like something, and I'm not cool.

I'm a relatively cheap person who, to me, it's not cool to overspend; it's cool to get a great deal.

I don't have to work with superstars - I want to work with cool artists that make super music.

I always sort of liked Mesa/Boogies, but I wasn't sure if they were cool or not cool.

I grew up on the South Side of Chicago, north Beverly. It was cool, everybody's cool on the block.

The Eagles, let's face it, they were a pretty cool group, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie. I had this really eclectic background in music.

I never really expected any of the music business to happen, but I'm glad it did. It was a very cool thing to happen. It was a hobby for me. I used to do it to meet girls. If you had long hair and could play a guitar then you got girls. That's how I started. Then I fell in love with the music and got carried away.

I laugh at what I used to think was cool when I was growing up. In all seriousness, I thought having braces was cool.

Don't try so hard to be hip. When the Church finds out what is cool, it is not cool anymore.

To be cool is to believe. To stay cool is to have the sweet fragments of serenity rock your wig away.