Quotes about Music Making

The most unique thing about music making is sharing. Votes: 3

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. Votes: 3

Although I am flexible and ready to take advice, I can't carry an umbrella of thoughts over my head that would distract me and affect my music making. Votes: 3

I am equally excited about the possibilities that music making holds for all people and it's ability to heal what seems to me a chronic imbalance in modern life. Votes: 3

When it comes to the music making, that's when we completely are open and just let anything go down in the studio. It's nice to go with whatever's happening. It's really important to just let the music come out of you. Votes: 3

Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream. Votes: 3

My intention always has been to arrive at human contact without enforcing authority. A musician, after all, is not a mili- tary officer. What matters most is human contact. The great mys- tery of music making requires real friendship among those who work together. Every member of the orchestra knows I am with him and her in my heart. Votes: 3

Making music is fantastic. Votes: 2

Cooking is exactly like making music. Votes: 2

I don't intend to stop making music. Votes: 2

I don't feel comfortable making empty music. Votes: 2

I started making music professionally when I was 14. Votes: 2

I make music because I like making music. Votes: 2

I love making music, though. I love playing. Votes: 2

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. Votes: 2

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music. Votes: 2

But, you know, I'd be happy just making music. Votes: 2

Music is like making love: either all or nothing. Votes: 2

People don't have fun making music all the time. Votes: 2

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market. Votes: 2

I need drama in my life to keep making music. Votes: 2

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. Votes: 2

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live. Votes: 2

I'm making music the way I would have done before modern equipment and music recording. Votes: 2

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music. Votes: 2

I'm not making music for people who like Disney shows. I make music for people who like music. Votes: 2

I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music. Votes: 2

Americans are good at making dance music. Votes: 0

I'm so passionate about making good music. Votes: 0

I prefer making videos to making music. Votes: 0

Making music is a total hassle, really. Votes: 0

I started making music because I could. Votes: 0

I think I'm making music that's pretty universal. Votes: 0

The Universe is making music all the time. Votes: 0

Making music, creating lyrics comes very naturally to me. Votes: 0

Music-making as a means of getting money is hell Votes: 0

Making music should not be left to the professionals. Votes: 0

The human element of making music is what's most important. Votes: 0

There's more to being a musician than just making music. Votes: 0

I started making music for myself when I was sixteen. Votes: 0

Writing a poem is making music with words and space. Votes: 0

I didn't start making music in order to be famous. Votes: 0

I want to be someone making music/with my coming. Votes: 0

The life I love is making music with my friends. Votes: 0

Since I started making music, it had always been for myself. Votes: 0

Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. Votes: 0

Michael Jackson believed in making music that made people feel good. Votes: 0

Today, computers help us making the music. Its really a tool. Votes: 0

Rock music sounds like an octopus making love to a bagpipe. Votes: 0

I still get a buzz from seeing young kids making music. Votes: 0

Broken Bells reminds me how much fun I have making music. Votes: 0

For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration. Votes: 0

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful. Votes: 0

My agenda will never change from making good music and staying relevant. Votes: 0

From Toscanini I learnt the essential and desperate seriousness of making music. Votes: 0

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Votes: 0

I love making music. It's just something that I can't stop doing. Votes: 0

The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. Votes: 0

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail. Votes: 0

I don't need an award to inspire me to keep making music. Votes: 0

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records. Votes: 0

I've always been a fan of just writing songs and making music. Votes: 0

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing. Votes: 0

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music. Votes: 0

Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Votes: 0

I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music. Votes: 0

A lot of times, in music especially, it's producers making a political decision. Votes: 0

The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine. Votes: 0

Making music together is the best way for two people to become friends. Votes: 0

The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it. Votes: 0

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me. Votes: 0

[Music is] so inspirational in terms of making me want to become better. Votes: 0

There's always been anger in the making of music or literature or dance. Votes: 0

There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!' Votes: 0

Finally, I was no longer a student and was making music for myself. Votes: 0

The last thing I think about when I'm making music is its reception. Votes: 0

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again. Votes: 0

I'm in this for the long haul. I've been making music my whole life. Votes: 0

I am passionate about making music that feeds the soul and brings people together. Votes: 0

Making music, if youre a real musician, you carry on, regardless in this world. Votes: 0

I feel like finding the balance is the struggle with making music in general. Votes: 0

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing. Votes: 0

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen. Votes: 0

I don't know, the artist thing is not me. I love making music, though. Votes: 0

I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark. Votes: 0

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die. Votes: 0

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of. Votes: 0

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough. Votes: 0

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music. Votes: 0

In the beginning we were making tape music, meaning, we were making music on tape. Votes: 0

I really enjoy making different types of music than I do with the Backstreet Boys. Votes: 0

A big part of my love and passion for making music is playing it live. Votes: 0

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think I was making music through the wrong end of a magnifying glass. Votes: 0

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual. Votes: 0

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music. Votes: 0

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. Votes: 0

There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people. Votes: 0

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion. Votes: 0

To be honest, I didn't really get into making music to be an album artist. Votes: 0

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore. Votes: 0

For me, making music is a continuous learning experience, and I think that it feeds itself. Votes: 0

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe. Votes: 0

It's tough being an actor making music, because even I have a knee-jerk reaction to that. Votes: 0

As far as my inspirations, I just like anyone who is making good music - period. Votes: 0

No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music. Votes: 0

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform. Votes: 0

I'm 41, I'm a woman not a kid. I have no interest in making silly pop music. Votes: 0

I'm not happy if I'm not making music; it's as simple as that. It's a need. Votes: 0

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well. Votes: 0

I liked when I was naive and I thought it was just about making good music. Votes: 0

I'm getting older every day, and I'm going to be making music until I drop dead. Votes: 0

The idea of sitting at home, not making music, just makes me want to throw up. Votes: 0

Making music and art is about expressing something that's universally human, maybe even beyond human, at best. Votes: 0

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach. Votes: 0

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world. Votes: 0

Yeah, we have our differences, but we put those aside, and now we're making music. It's great. Votes: 0

I didn't get into making music for the fame aspect. There are people who do desire that. Votes: 0

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess. Votes: 0

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks. Votes: 0

I'm a pretty bad troubadour. I'm more of a music fan who got away with making records. Votes: 0

Music has always been my first love, so making music happen is a big priority of mine. Votes: 0

I just love making music. I always stay in the studio. Making music is my main focus. Votes: 0

Making music makes me feel vulnerable in the best possible way. It gives me a feeling of balance. Votes: 0

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music. Votes: 0

I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction. Votes: 0

I think that what I'm interested with is the creative side of music-making, rather than all the travelling. Votes: 0

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music. Votes: 0

The more people see of me, the more they'll realize that all I'm good for is MAKING MUSIC. Votes: 0

A lot of my music is slow and subtle. The subtly is what I enjoy about making music. Votes: 0

Right now the music is more of a hobby since I'm making a good living as an actress. Votes: 0

Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music. Votes: 0

The ultimate thing I want to do in making music is to be able to inspire somebody else. Votes: 0

When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for. Votes: 0

I just try and focus on having fun on the road and making the best music I can. Votes: 0

I'm really just concentrating on making good music, whether it's using a sample or doing an original track. Votes: 0

I mean, it's pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you're making music, isn't it? Votes: 0

The most important things are that you are honest with yourself and that making music comes from your heart Votes: 0

We're making music to help people think and bring them together, that's our role; we're not siding with anybody Votes: 0

Whenever I'm making music I'm always waiting for the shivers to happen - that's an important thing for me. Votes: 0

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music. Votes: 0

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it. Votes: 0

I've been making music ever since, but it was never something I thought I could make any money doing. Votes: 0

I don't think any musician ever thinks about making a statement. I think everybody goes into music loving it. Votes: 0

That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. Votes: 0

I feel connected to a higher power when I'm making music or performing. There's a spiritual experience for me. Votes: 0

I love acting so much, but listening to music and making music has been the greatest savior for me. Votes: 0

I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words. Votes: 0

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music. Votes: 0

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. Votes: 0

The lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd "“ putting it all together "“ magic in the making Votes: 0

I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming. Votes: 0

I just make the music, and people have the say. When I'm making songs, I never call them hits. Votes: 0

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. Votes: 0

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while. Votes: 0

If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way. Votes: 0

I love making music so it's important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy. Votes: 0

I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy. Votes: 0

I always give a lot of credit to Ronnie Dunn for making me fall in love with country music. Votes: 0

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music. Votes: 0

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music. Votes: 0

Programming (or making music) at night is dreamtime, a period exclusively mental, utterly absorbed, sustained and timeless, placeless, disembodied. Votes: 0

I haven't thought about making a music film, but if I did, that would be a very interesting idea. Votes: 0

I think what's keeping me making music - the money is great, but I make music for the visibility. Votes: 0

I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music. Votes: 0

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it. Votes: 0

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart. Votes: 0

When I first started out, I was making really slow, psychedelic ambient music because it was all I could do. Votes: 0

The point has always been to make music, it's not like I've always been running a giant money making scheme. Votes: 0

I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano. Votes: 0

If I'm not writing songs about things I've actually been through, it ruins the idea of making music to me. Votes: 0

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience. Votes: 0

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it. Votes: 0

I think it's important to say something. If you're making music it's kinda' like, oh, cool, so is everyone else. Votes: 0

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording. Votes: 0

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own. Votes: 0

If I wasn't making music I would probably be in the woods with a big deer"¦.Talking to myself. Votes: 0

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things. Votes: 0

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun. Votes: 0

I think the reason I've been able to keep making music is because I'm not married, I don't have kids. Votes: 0

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. Votes: 0

When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success. Votes: 0

In the long run, all I care about is making good music & not wasting time being in the public eye. Votes: 0

The point of making records for me isn't to hear 300 songs in 50 minutes; it's to hear the 50-minute piece of music. Votes: 0

Music should be like making love. Sometimes you want it soft and tender, another time you want it hard and aggressive. Votes: 0

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way. Votes: 0

I mean, there's plenty of artists who are making R&B music, but because of their ethnicity, it's considered something else. Votes: 0

What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear. Votes: 0

The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music. Votes: 0

Making music can sometimes make me a bit restless, so it's fun when I get to be expressive in another way. Votes: 0

It is always an honor to work with those that share your passion for music and just enjoy making great music. Votes: 0

Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it. Votes: 0

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes. Votes: 0

I just don't hear anyone else making the music I'm making in my head, so I'll have to do it myself. Votes: 0

...whatever I ended up doing with my life,I wanted to people feel the way this music was making me feel. Votes: 0

The way that I've always gone about making music, the rule of thumb, has just been to make what I love. Votes: 0

I think I sound like a fella who's always making a plea through his music. Sort of a plea of sincerity. Votes: 0

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either. Votes: 0

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated. Votes: 0

Perhaps like attracts like, and that's why I found myself in a circle of women who are so passionate about making music. Votes: 0

Now the music industry is sort of like a Craigslist venture, right? Where you're making your own records and selling them online. Votes: 0

I've experienced tons of failure. I've been making music for 30 years, and I'd say failure and success have happened in equal measure. Votes: 0

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music. Votes: 0

Sharing music is not a crime. It shouldn't be. There should be a deeper meaning to making music than just selling downloads. Votes: 0

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it. Votes: 0

All this machinery making modern music can still be open-hearted. Not so boldly charted, it's really just a question of your honesty. Votes: 0

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all. Votes: 0

I think to find an escape route out of a music industry that is becoming more and more focused on making money. Votes: 0

I would leave school and be bummed out for 15 minutes, and then I would take my mind of things by making music. Votes: 0

As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of making music is to get it heard by as many people as possible. Votes: 0

I was very quiet until I got at the piano, and weekends, lunch breaks, after school, before school, I was just making music. Votes: 0

If you're making music, you must want to turn other people on to it, whether you're number one in the charts or number 60. Votes: 0

I care about making music and I care about creating experiences for my fans with my music and my videos and my performances. Votes: 0

I'm about making music and spending time with my family. I've been in the spotlight so long that I'm looking for something different. Votes: 0

When I was just getting started making my own music, my dad said, "You should think about art, but also anti-art and non-art." Votes: 0

For Westlife, the music will never stop as long as our fans are around inspiring us to keep on making beautiful music together. Votes: 0

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things. Votes: 0

I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music. Votes: 0

I started making music for fun maybe my senior year in college. I started rapping in high school, but it wasn't anything serious. Votes: 0

I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it. Votes: 0

I'm just an Orange County girl from a loving family making music with my friends. It's not really that big of a deal. Votes: 0

I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing. Votes: 0

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life. Votes: 0

As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music. Votes: 0

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air. Votes: 0

I'm just making fun music so you can let your guard down and enjoy it, don't worry about what's cool and what's not. Votes: 0

I think there are times when a song can be a spiritual experience - just making music, in general, is pretty much that. Votes: 0

I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time. Votes: 0

Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly. Votes: 0

Making music has gotten easier; selling it has gotten harder. Making music has been democratized, but the market is in the hands of fascists. Votes: 0

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. Votes: 0

There's something mathematically satisfying about music: notes fit together and harmony and all that. And mathematics has to do with abstractions and making connections. Votes: 0

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasn't really producing or anything like that; it was you making something. Votes: 0

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing. Votes: 0

Giving up and doing something else (nursing, for me) was exactly what eventually led me to making music that other people wanted to hear. Votes: 0

I started out really making music in my dorm room, and it wasnt really producing or anything like that; it was you making something. Votes: 0

Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making. Votes: 0

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone. Votes: 0

Drinking was a big help with me making music, because drinking gives you courage. But it also makes you reckless, and that's the trouble. Votes: 0

I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do. Votes: 0

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I would, as a kid, just sing little ideas or be making something. Votes: 0

[Justin Bieber]'s rich, right? Grammys are for music and not money. He's making a lot of money. He should be happy with that. Votes: 0

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react. Votes: 0

God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it. Votes: 0

When my first daughter was born, I had to figure out a new way of [making music] so that I wouldn't wake her up. Votes: 0

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it. Votes: 0

The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things. Votes: 0

It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression. Votes: 0

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast. Votes: 0

I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things. Votes: 0

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings. Votes: 0

I try to get my subconscious to puke out as much stuff as I can because I'm really not judging myself while making music. Votes: 0

I realized that making music can help me to convey my feelings, and if it can relieve me, maybe it can help someone else? Votes: 0

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Votes: 0

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans. Votes: 0

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into. Votes: 0

I'm definitely interested in making more music and uploading new covers; I like to take suggestions because it's more fun if people know the song. Votes: 0

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy. Votes: 0

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that. Votes: 0

I pride myself on finding balance. I love making music and I love raising my boys - I find time to make both a priority. Votes: 0

The music I'm making is like an explosion of love. It moves away from super dark, its more romanticized and floral, but still quite black. Votes: 0

If conversation was the lyrics, laughter was the music, making time spent together a melody that could be replayed over and over without getting stale. Votes: 0

I already feel that I am making a political statement by sticking around in music, when I am doing it so differently to everyone else. Votes: 0

I'm actually pretty good with computers. I use computers when I'm working on making and producing music, so I do know a thing or two! Votes: 0

Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things. Votes: 0

I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense. Votes: 0

I started making music professionally when I was 14. I did songs on that program GarageBand, and then I'd put demos up on MySpace with my friends... Votes: 0

I haven't stopped making music since I started at 16 and throughout the years I made a lot of different connections and had a lot of opportunities. Votes: 0

Imagine music gushing down the hollow places in your bones, and making you liquid, and giving you speed. Imagine music turning your body into a song. Votes: 0

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove. Votes: 0

The worst frustration for a singer is choosing a career in making music and then not being able to make music because you're always giving interviews. Votes: 0

If you've become a huge act and you're still doing the same music you wrote with your friends when you were making zero dollars, you're lazy. Votes: 0

Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting. Votes: 0

I knew that I would be making music for my whole life; as far as how many people respond to it, you can't plan for that. Votes: 0

Making of poetry, music, dance and art as culture-making in the service of nation-making. You can find writings that make that purpose for art quite explicit. Votes: 0

Sheet music, recording, radio, television, cassettes, CD burners, and file sharing have all invalidated, to some extent, the old model of making a living making music. Votes: 0

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom. Votes: 0

I love people. I love being in a band. I love making music. I had to figure out that was way more important than being addicted. Votes: 0

When I first started making music, for about the first 10 years, I was always the young kid. Everyone referred to me as such in any band. Votes: 0

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music. Votes: 0

In my dorm room, I was a hermit making music, I've always had a sense of urgency that I don't have forever to make this happen. Votes: 0

Electro is today's disco - making electronic music not for the sake of selling it but for sharing it and touring around the world D.J.-ing. Votes: 0

If you're someone who's making film or TV or music, or any kind of art form now, there's a billion outlets and they all have an opinion. Votes: 0

I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, 'Guncrazy,' at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. Votes: 0

The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos. Votes: 0

I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody. Votes: 0

Its a good feeling when people come up to you and tell you your music helps them, and as long as it does, I'll keep making it. Votes: 0

When I dont have a good time making music, I think of quitting a lot. I really do. I can create something else. Ill do something else. Votes: 0

Obviously when you're making music, you want it to get out to as many people as possible. You want to reach as many people as you can. Votes: 0

[Performing artists] are making greater percentages. People are going to live events more and it's a big success story for everyone - except the music industry itself. Votes: 0

I take making music seriously, but you have to have a sense of humor about yourself. I invite people into my life. That's how I do it. Votes: 0

I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person. Votes: 0

I've been making music since I was damn near born. For me to be a producer and be on my sixteenth year making music is a blessing. Votes: 0

I have nothing against bombastic music, but when it comes to making albums, I'd prefer to make music that has a sort of vulnerable subtlety to it. Votes: 0

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread. Votes: 0

Making music is so much more self-motivated. It's my own music. It's my own time. I don't have a team around me that's helped me make everything. Votes: 0

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before. Votes: 0

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago. Votes: 0

I don't have anyone telling me to change things or giving me unwanted opinions. It's just me and my band making music. It's nice for a change. Votes: 0

I wish I could free myself from making music that has a dancefloor-function, or at least try to focus more on all the other elements in music. Votes: 0

The importance of selecting music and sequencing songs - making one song merge into another song. In retrospect, those are the most important lessons I got from DJs. Votes: 0

I'm a really visual artist, and I love writing treatments for music videos, photo shoots, fashion, and all the visual parts that go along with making an album. Votes: 0

The more years you put behind you, hopefully making music that surpasses what you did before, you're playing bigger places and it kind of weirdly becomes a business. Votes: 0

When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make something that I feel like making. Votes: 0

[My parents] worked hard all week long, and the way they celebrated and rejoiced in life was by making music on weekends. And that music was Country Music. Votes: 0

It's all about going out there, performing live, making music. But, obviously, being a guy who has thousands of screaming female fans doesn't exactly make it less fun Votes: 0

I began observing, making paintings of my surroundings, taking a vow of silence, listening, composing music, writing, and making time for formal education. Then I started telling stories. Votes: 0

I believe that there's a force of life in the universe, and that when we're writing or making music or painting, we're likely to connect with that flow. Votes: 0

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything. Votes: 0

I just did whatever it took to keep making music - slept on couches. You would be amazed at how far $20 can go if you stretch it out. Votes: 0

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music. Votes: 0

Even before making music I was always someone that you had to get to know, at school or elementary. I walked the hallways. I would take your pizza Votes: 0

There's a whole gamut of things to do with film music that don't apply when you're making a record or if you're writing a concert piece or something. Votes: 0

It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions! Votes: 0

In sound design programs now, you can literally sculpt the sound on visual graphs. Sometimes the visual programs are even more interesting than the music that's making them Votes: 0

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity. Votes: 0

Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting. Votes: 0

The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project. Votes: 0

It's entertaining to watch somebody break my music down or explain what he thinks I was thinking during the process of making these records. Because... he has no idea. Votes: 0

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music. Votes: 0

To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music. Votes: 0

Copland was one of the first American composers to forge a truly modern style of American classical music while also making use of American popular music - including jazz. Votes: 0

It's weird. People want you to know that they write. They want you to know they're a musician, rather than making music or making stories. It's the strangest thing. Votes: 0

The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us. Votes: 0

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency. Votes: 0

There's always the influence of music, film, art and the other things that drive me. I'm usually inspired by my environment and whatever is making me happy or mad. Votes: 0

I started making music with my band in the 80s, so I am more product of post punk than classical music, and I have always carried on this way. Votes: 0

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art. Votes: 0

I was free from fear for the first time ever while making the music. Fear's job is to distract us from the truth. There's no fear on my record. Votes: 0

I don't think music can be held. I don't think artists can be put into boxes or places. It's all about creating and making the best music you can. Votes: 0

I'm confident in my intentions and why I'm making music. I'm not making music because I want to be on your TV screen or the cover of your magazine. Votes: 0

Making dances is an act of progress; it is an act of growth, an act of music, an act of teaching, an act of celebration, an act of joy. Votes: 0

I love making music. I never stop. I want to keep it moving forward. I like to go into the studio and make hits. It makes me feel good. Votes: 0

The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food. Votes: 0

Looking back, I think we were very much a part of democratizing music, and we wanted to demystify the process of making music - to show it's a myth. Votes: 0

Making music is a lifestyle; go to the studio and sit in front of your computer, drum machine or guitar for 10 hours a day. The good stuff will come. Votes: 0

I'm a massive fan of the Stones, and I don't think anybody should deny them the right to carry on making music. I just wish they wouldn't wear leggings. Votes: 0

I'm so happy. I am able to see the world just by making music, just by doing the thing that I loved doing when I was five years old. Votes: 0

I want to be around for a long time, I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I hope I'll be 50 years old and still making music. Votes: 0

Because I've been making music and releasing it for so long, I've got that production-line thing in my brain: I can't do anything new until the last one's out. Votes: 0

Hip-hop has survived as a sonic practice more than anything else. It's an approach to music-making based in sampling and rhyming over beats, that's proven far more versatile than its detractors thought it would. Votes: 0

The new Zune may not be an iPod killer, but it does offer a clean interface, great industrial design, HD radio, and a subscription model for music, making it significantly less expensive for big users. Votes: 0