Top 1200 Metal Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Yeah. It's all in the music first. The music is like women to me. It's like how you pick your music: everybody got their own different way how they pick their women and their music, and I guess that's what the album becomes.

I think, as musicians, our music should be who we are. Sometimes it's not - it's someone else's. All heartfelt music and all honest music, it's who we are. Of course, our upbringing has everything to do with it.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

Christian music was music that I grew up listening to that I can't say has had much of an impact on anything I have done in my adult life. Maybe Christianity has, but certainly not the bullshit Christian music I was listening to when I was 12. To me there's not much substance in that music. I don't have a message or anything.

I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.

Metal is the feeling of being an outsider, but still being part of something huge.

I like metal because it's complicated, technical, brutal and I like the challenge.

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

'Wages Of Sin' was the first metal album I ever bought, and it was love at first listen.

I love rock music, dance music, so it depends on my mood. But I mainly listen to dance music before going out on court.

It's weird for me to come from the 80s when metal was so uncool and see how far it has come.

I'm trying to fuse popular and commercial music and just make very creative music. It's popular music: it's everything for everybody.

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

Yet, instead of loving our children more, we install metal detectors in our schools.

It's satisfying and gratifying to make your own music, but I personally don't get the same enjoyment out of the music that I make as I do from somebody else's music that I like.

I just love Cape Breton fiddling! I think it's very close. They derive their music from Scottish music. Well, in Donegal we're very influenced by Scottish music as well. Independently the two areas became very alike, because they kind of changed the music a bit from Scotland and we did the same.

If you're in music, you're in music, and if you're in music you just want to keep making records and playing. That's what it's about, isn't it? At least, that's what I always thought it was about, anyway.

Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.

I believe in reflecting honesty and reflecting reality in my music and making music that touches people emotionally - music that can bring us together.

The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.

My father played music, so I was always around music, even from the time I was born. My father actually was the one that originally got me into music.

That's what metal means to me, feeling that feeling when you hear something that totally turns you on.

As far as my single selections, over the years it's been a very essential part of my survival tactic, but I have no problem being able to jump on records with whoever people think is the rawest rapper in the game or number one or King or whatever they wanna name themselves, to be honest with you. It doesn't affect me, 'cause that's what I come from; I'm comfortable in that zone. But I don't wanna make hood music, I don't wanna make street music, I want to make world music, global music, international music.

I'm surrounded by music; I always was when I was growing up and continue to be. And I love music. And when I imagine a fictional world, I imagine there's music in it for those people, too.

I love music and listen to music all the time, but I didn't realize how much my body needed music. I needed it more than sex.

I gave up that idea of trying to make music that I thought other people would want. I just made music for myself and music for people that I knew.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Obviously, there's not as much flex in a wood bat as in a metal bat, so I'm still trying to adjust to that.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

I like all music... My parents both just loved music from all genres. I don't have a favorite; I just love music. That's why I want to play the piano.

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and sometimes, music has not just been my best friend, it's been my only friend.

My dad started off in scrap metal, real men doing men's jobs.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

As the voices beneath the music are talking, you find that the music is just as important as what they're saying. The traditional thing is to lower the music so you can hear the dialogue. We just couldn't do that for that song.

In all of my years in this business, I've always been part of either a progressive band or a metal band.

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet. Name one time in your life that wasn't punctuated by the music you listened to at the time. When people are down, they listen to music that commiserates that emotion. When people are amped up, they listen to more upbeat, loud songs.

My music comes from country music. Merle Haggard is God, and I do believe that. I'm not too tuned in to country music. I don't know who Brooks and Dunn are. I like Shania Twain, though!

My goal is really to continue to make music. I really don't make music to have platinum records and all that kind of stuff. I've been there. I do it because I love music, and I love uplifting people through my music. That's my real goal.

You can see it in people's faces, when they're into a metal band. It's cool to see that being passed on.

It's a band singing on how metal should be played, the effect it has on the band and its listeners.

A true music, that is to say, spiritual, a music which may be an act of faith; a music which may touch upon all subjects without ceasing to touch upon God; an original music, in short, whose language may open a few doors, take down some yet distant stars.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

The one thing that's changed for 'That Metal Show' is that it's now global; it's now on in places outside of America.

Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

It's all about the music. For me, that's truly what I live for. Just music constantly. Always listening to, writing, or playing music. That's definitely me.

It's no secret that anybody who knows the music business knows that the numbers are substantially different in Christian music than they are in country music.

Metallica is a very complicated, fragile thing. On the outside, it's all metal, but on the inside it's very delicate.

I went to a Catholic School, and underneath my school uniform, I wore a metal shirt.

I never liked opera growing up. I always liked chamber music or solo music even more than orchestral music.

My family was into music. My dad was into music down south. My mom and grandmother were into gospel music so there were all types. That was my inspiration.

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

Most people don't listen to classical music at all, but to rock-and-roll or hillbilly songs or some album named Music To Listen To Music By.

I want to remind people that black music is amazing. And there are all forms of it that we've forgotten, you know? Rock music is black music! Don't forget that's what it is.

It seems like people get afraid of a certain music if they can't pigeonhole it to their satisfaction... Good music is good music, and that should be enough for anybody.

Everybody likes music. And rock 'n' roll - that was the music that brought white youth and black youth together for the first time in American music history.