Music Quotes

We never notate our music, so you can try to replicate it, but you don't really have it.

Thurston Moore

Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.

Thurston Moore

We're like old people now playing music. I'm so glad we stuck it out because it's a lot better. I used to feel kind of anxious. Now our apprenticeship is over.

Thurston Moore

I'm always kind of surprised how much I'm associated with country music.

Tift Merritt

I'm definitely a risk-taker with my music.

Timbaland

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording.

Timbaland

I do music for the fans. I want to lift fans up.

Timbaland

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Timbaland

I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.

Tim McGraw

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

Tim McGraw

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

Tim McGraw

You don't try to get influenced by everything that's going on with all the other music around you. You don't listen to the radio - I mean, I don't. When I get ready to do an album, I don't listen to anybody else; I don't wanna be influenced.

Tim McGraw

There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.

T. J. Miller

The basic idea of a hyper instrument is where the technology is built right into the instrument so that the instrument knows how it's being played - literally what the expression is, what the meaning is, what the direction of the music is.

Tod Machover

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.

Tod Machover

I came late to the genre of folk music.

Tom Morello

I was a fan of heavy music - first metal, then punk, then hip hop.

Tom Morello

Then about 12 years ago it dawned on me that folk music - the music of Woody Guthrie and Phil Ochs, early Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Pete Seeger - could be as heavy as anything that comes through a Marshall stack. The combination of three chords and the...

Tom Morello

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Tommy Mottola

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity.

Tony Martin

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

Tracy Morgan