Music Quotes

Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

Ian MacKaye

I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

Ian MacKaye

Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.

Ian MacKaye

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

Ian McLagan

I find that, maybe because I'm also a singer, I hear music in characters all the time, even if they don't sing. I hear what affects me in my heart.

Idina Menzel

They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.

Idina Menzel

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

Idina Menzel

Usually I'm pretty myopic. It's hard for me to multi-task, so to speak. If I'm in a show and I'm creating a character, I'm just completely into that. It's really hard for me to do anything else like write music. I have to sort of shut down different ...

Idina Menzel

People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'

Idina Menzel

I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.

Ikue Mori

Because it's dance music, you can't really have a lot of changing in there. It's really not for me because there's too much repetition. I like more diversity.

Ikue Mori

I used to split my time between writing, music and painting. I would work on a book and then abandon it, start a band, do an album, quit music, then do a gallery show. Eventually I decided to give writing a serious shot.

Isaac Marion

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Iggy Pop

My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

Iggy Pop

The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the music is, 'We are terribly, terribly slick and suave, and if you listen to us, you can probably get a leg up in society, too.'

Iggy Pop

So many things can drive you mad as a child, not only music.

Itzhak Perlman

That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise.

Itzhak Perlman

I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

Iwan Rheon

The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.

Ian Schrager

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.

Igor Stravinsky

Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Igor Stravinsky