Music Quotes

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

Tom Cochrane

There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

Tom Curren

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.

Tom Curren

I was about sixteen when I discovered that music could get you laid, so I got into music boy, didn't matter what you looked like either, you could be a geeky looking guy but if you played music, whoa, you'd get the girls.

Tommy Chong

Music has always been a big part of Cheech & Chong's career, so it's just natural. You know, I was a musician before I met Cheech and had a record with Motown, and so I've got the cred.

Tommy Chong

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Tracy Chapman

The way popular music is categorized and formatted cuts down on everyone's options. And although people don't talk about it, there are a lot of issues of race determining musical categories of what's rock, R&B, or even folk. It ends up restricting cr...

Tracy Chapman

Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Tracy Chapman

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.

Tre Cool

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Truman Capote

I like for people to have fun and that comes out in the music.

Two Chainz

I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Tyler, The Creator

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Tyler, The Creator

The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.

Tyler, The Creator

I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

Tyler, The Creator

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

Thomas Dolby

So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message.

Thomas Dolby

I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression.

Thomas Dolby

Records aren't selling anymore; people are burning music.

Tom DeLonge

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure.

Trevor Dunn