“I wanna get into modeling a little bit, even acting. Just expanding myself as an artist because the music thing ain't forever, and I don't think that's all God got in store for me. He wants me to try new things. Hopefully this music is just an avenue for getting to those things.” ThinkingWantTryingLittlesArtistBitsActingForeverLittle BitMusic IsStoresHopefullyWant MeNew ThingsExpandingModelingAvenuesHe Wants Me Author:Kevin McCall
“Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.” ThinkingTryingSoulLanguageWorryMusic IsYour SoulTranslations Author:Avery Sunshine
“I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindEnoughHelpingFeelingsMysteryMusic IsCuriousGood Enough Author:Gabriel Mann
“Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.” WritingTryingHeartHelpingMy HeartMusic IsInfiniteBrave Author:Brandy Norwood
“I'm not an R&B singer, I'm a singer. I can sing any music that makes me feel inspired whether it's Country, a little bit of Rock and roll but within my roots as well. I'm not going too far with it, but it'll be within my roots. I feel like trying a different way to express my music because so many people have already taken from what I've done in the past and it kind of makes me not want to ever do anything that I've done before.” PeopleTryingKindDifferentCountryDonePastTakenMusic IsInspired Author:Brandy Norwood
“Listening. That's what music is about. You hear it. And I'd listen to it and something would move me one way or another; and I would try and play it.” TryingMovingListeningMusic Is Author:Jerry Garcia
“I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.” PeopleWritingTryingEasyBoysTroubleMusic IsSorryIdiotFreakBloody Author:Mark E. Smith
“I think my music is a reflection of what I think life is. Which is beautiful and sad, you know. I'm a bit of a sad-sack, in a way. I try not to be a mope. But life is hard, you know, and life is weird. Not to get too depressing. But it's also beautiful and gorgeous, and I'm glad I'm here.” ThinkingTryingBeautifulMusic IsReflectionGladDepressingGorgeousLife Is Hard Author:Gary Louris
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentMusicianMusic IsArgumentWesternRapperClassical MusicRap Music Author:Christian Scott
“I am the ambassador to the world. I use music to talk to the world - to try to unite masses. To try to spark conversations. To try and evoke legislation to change that'll really be for the people. That's behind-the-scenes kind of thing for me. And that's what the music is for me.” PeopleWorldTryingKindMusic Is Author:Ali Shaheed Muhammad
“I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually do fight evil in this world. And what am I doing? I bang on some drums in a rock band. I try to tell myself that by doing that, I'm fighting evil - which is completely absurd. Music is not equipped in any way to fight against anything. Other than, I guess, it could fight against silence.” WorldTryingRunningFightingEvilSilenceChildhoodMusic IsAbsurdFighting Evil Author:Greg Saunier
“I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a lot of things. I've always wanted to learn how to paint, too. I'd like to try everything, but music is my reason for living.” TryingReasonActingMusic IsGardenPaintGardening Author:Bradford Cox
“The one good thing about a movie and music and stuff like that: Sometimes it's a counterpoint between the movie and the music itself, the difference and the tension they build together. I think that could be something that helped with me, because when I write songs now, I write lyrics a bit like that. I try to make the music be an interesting twist on the lyrics and help tell the story in a - I don't tell crazy stories, you know? So a lot of times, the twist is in the subtleties. The twist is in the way the story's told.” ThinkingWritingTryingSometimesHelpingTogetherSongInterestingCrazyMusic IsGood ThingsTensionSubtlety Author:Patrick Watson
“I think my philosophy on music is sort of like the difference between religion and spirituality or religion and faith. There's a lot of bullshit in the music industry. It's really tough to get a leg up and navigate around your gender and stereotypes. You feel hopeless, [but] all of that disappears the minute that I start writing a song. Then I record something and have that magical feeling. You have to have the negative and the positive. Trying to own that and go to that place in yourself creatively is the most important thing.” ThinkingWritingTryingImportantPhilosophyFeelingsSongSpiritualityMusic IsToughNegativeGenderDisappearHopelessBullshitStereotypeMusic Industry Author:Haley Bonar
“I was thinking a lot about music, about how music is mixed and how everything is happening at the same time; it just amounts to how the sound is lowered or raised. I was trying to get that with writing.” ThinkingWritingTryingMusic Is Author:Dennis Cooper
“I'm trying to bring the romance back to music. Old school... Music is meant to be a part of your blood stream, and if it doesn't affect your bloodstream, then you may as well put it back in the shoebox underneath the bed.” TryingSchoolRomanceMusic IsMeant To BeOld School Author:Al B. Sure!
“Music is the highest art form.I still think that. I wish I was really talented in music because then I would be doing it. I felt that I could write a decent song, but it was a big struggle. It took a lot of time and effort for me, whereas a lot of my peers and other people seemed to have a much easier relationship to it. But I profoundly love music, and I still dream that I might one day try to write some new songs and record something - just for myself, to see what would happen.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingArtDreamSongWishEffortStruggleOne DayMusic IsDecent Author:Johan Renck
“I think all of us set out to try and reach as many people. That's the whole point of being in a band: trying to get your music out there. So, any opportunity to do that, within reason. We're informed about where our music is going to be used; we get to say yes or no. There are things we can turn down, and there are things we can agree to. When it comes to movies and stuff like that, it's great for us. I don't think it's selling out. Maybe 10 or 20 years ago it was seen as selling out, but nowadays I think it's the only way to get your music out there.” PeopleThinkingTryingReasonOpportunityMusic IsAgreeSellingSelling OutYes Or No Author:Daniel Taylor
“I'm trying to work out a way to be a singer and to create cool content. I'm willing to do that as an entertainer. But I'm not willing to give up my actual self. And the way the system is built up, there'll be a backlash soon. Just recently some people published 11 photos of Sia's face. It's a bummer for me because it's going to elevate my profile and make me more recognizable. But I don't look the same as I did when I used to have my photo taken. Music is for your ears, not your eyes, right? But film is for your eyes, and I would like to give you something.” PeopleGivingTryingEyeFilmTakenGiving UpMusic IsWork OutProfile Author:Sia Furler
“Sometimes I'm trying to communicate a feeling. Sometimes I can't piece it together into any kind of coherant thesis. I'm just trying to evoke some kind of mood, and put some kind of idea in somebody's head. If Marshall McLuhan or Harold Innis were looking at it, they would tell you that the genre of rock music isn't the best way to deliver a political message because it distorts it, it makes it into entertainment. Perhaps the best political message is just to speak it to somebody. I think that's something I'm always writing about in songs, just how to mediate, how to present something.” ThinkingWritingTryingKindSometimesFeelingsTogetherPoliticalSongSpeakMusic IsCommunicateMoodRock MusicThesis Author:A.C. Newman
“I am trying to change hip-hop music because I do feel there are places people can go with production and the structure of an album that they haven't gone yet. But, like I said, I don't have any delusions of grandeur. I just want to make music that doesn't make me bored.” PeopleTryingMusic IsBoredDelusionTrying To Change Author:El-P
“I really want to try to protect as much as I can, to safeguard peoples' first experience with a record. Because I want you to get the whole thing as one integrated piece, because it's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them.” TryingProtectMusic IsI Want YouIntegrated Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“I think we get on with living our lives like everybody else does. Where we're at in music is trying to explain what's going around us either directly or by analogy and trying to create a parallel, an analog, sometimes musical, sometimes dramatic, that might be truthful.” ThinkingTryingSometimesMusic IsMusicalDramaticTruthfulBeing Truthful Author:Andy Gill
“I love synthesizers and I love electronic music and I love the avant garde and I always want to try and have some kind of element of that in the music. So once the music is put down and recorded, that's when I start to tinker with it using synths.” TryingKindMusic IsElectronic Music Author:David W. Marsden
“I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a word like meditation as the music is fairly brutal but there is a hypnotic element to it and the way that I try and create that for someone just happens to be through a fairly heavy form of music. You are constantly barraged and beaten down with a lot of bullshit and I find that heavy and extreme music helps me to go into a very tranquil place and I hope, more than anything, that the music does create a space for people to go inward with.” PeopleTryingHelpingMeditationMusic IsHelp MeBrutalBullshitTranquil Author:David W. Marsden
“I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.” TryingArtI CanFormUsedImaginationMusic IsUsed To BeTiesAppreciatedMy ImaginationNot Appreciated Author:Marilyn Manson
“I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.” TryingLiteratureMusicMusic IsCatWindowSticksGlassesHungTailsClawsWagner Book:The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire Source: The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire
“A lot of pop music is based on trying to make people remember it so that they'll buy it. To me, it was not about that.” PeopleTryingRememberMusic IsPopsPop Music Author:Serj Tankian