Top 165 Our Music Quotes

I consider our music a catalyst, something that might spark a thought or a question.

We’ve worked very hard as a band and would like to think we’ve got this far on the strength of our music.

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it’s our music. It’s the national music of America.

There’s a certain kind of motion and pacing that our music has, and this just doesn’t have that. We just kind of rushed to the conclusion of most of the songs. I just would’ve preferred to done them over.

We’re just a joyous band, and our music is just fun, happy, and nostalgic.

I hate negativity in general. We, as artists, we pour so much into our music and put out something we believe in… it sucks that people tear you down.

We’ve influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.

I think… people are inspired by our music, and that’s cool. We all borrow each other’s music.

The only time we actually even think about our music is in interviews. We have to explain why we do what we do, even though it seems pointless to us to explain it. The rest of the time we just do what we do and don’t worry about it.

We never said we were hard-core or that we didn’t want our music crossing over or being popular.

We never overthought the message aspect of Earth, Wind & Fire. We pretty much were all raised the same… We just wanted to contribute positivity in our music and humanity.

Our music is weird. It’s not pop. I don’t know why so many people buy our records.

It’s not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We’re just presenting our music; it’s really much more innocent.

I only get compared to women, which is crazy because often the women they compare me to… we just have a similar hairstyle. Whether it’s Joni Mitchell or Florence and the Machine – our music doesn’t always sound anything alike. But we just all have long hair.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren’t by a long shot the biggest influence.

We hope that our music does not stop at giving joy to the listeners but also change their lives positively.

We know the fans love us to death, and the people that hear out music love our music.

Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music.

Music TV in the U.K. is disappearing. ‘Top Of The Pops,’ ‘CD:UK’ and shows like that have gone, and it’s bringing down the music industry. We should do as much as we can to keep our music TV and producers need to be more willing to accommodate live music.

We just allow anybody to listen to our music. All ages are allowed!

Moog has been incorporated in a lot of our music. I know RZA has several of those machines. So, it did play a major role in a lot of music we were doing.

I’ve heard people say all our music sounds the same, but it’s usually just the people who don’t like us who say it.

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I’ve done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn’t until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad’s album after he died, then it was like ‘That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.’

This is fun; consuming our music shouldn’t be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.

So I think it was a good thing It was a little surreal watching Leo scream ‘I’m not going to die today!’ with our music playing – that was the last thing on my mind when I wrote the song.

It’s definitely a hard pill to swallow; the son of John Lennon and a model having a band together is a cliche. But I think that once people get past that I think there’s been a really warm reception to our music.

The industry is starting to be more open to what we do. I just don’t want us to be boxed in whatever people assume Christian rap should be. We’re dudes who love hip hop, and we love Jesus, and that’s going to be apparent in our music.

Our music did not sound like the Beatles in any way, shape or form. I could never find it in myself to use those Beatles tricks in Styx records because they were sacred to me. But what they did always influenced my thinking.

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

As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was made up of so many different climates, political beliefs and people, and that was our music.

The idea of a streaming service, like Netflix for music, I’m not totally against it. It’s just we won’t put all of our music on it until there are enough subscribers for it to make sense.

Of course everybody wants to be filthy stinking rich. But we’ve seen the effect that having that kind of massive success has had on other people musically. I really think that our music has gotten stronger because of a slight level of fear you get when you don’t have that kind of success.

All our fans have great energy, and that’s where we get our energy to perform. They know how to have fun with our music.

I’m actually loving the soundtrack to ‘The Secret Circle’ that our music supervisor Liza Richardson puts together, like Washed Out and Cults, but my favorite band is Bootstraps.

When you’re the voice who represents our music and our family, it’s an amazing, and a huge, responsibility. I am able to not only be an ambassador for my own family but for everyone.

There’s always room to make stuff that is completely morose and downbeat, but we’d probably spiral into a state of complete despair if our music reflected the lyrics all the time. I think that’s almost the fun game with some songs, is this complete tearing of two feelings at once.

We feel it’s really interesting to see how our music translates to such a broad audience.

My solo music – I get up onstage, I improvise and it’s my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we’re improvising together. Then it’s not my music; it’s our music.

I think we’re maturing as women, our music isn’t going to be bubblegum forever, it is getting a bit more sexy.

Getting into film production was obviously the next step once we had consolidated our music business.

I had this all-American cheerleader girl, in Georgia or somewhere, coming up to me and asking for guest list at a show. I never thought our music would reach out to such a broad variety of people like that.

I don’t think everyone is 100% comfortable in their own skin, but we’re learning to love ourselves more and more, and that’s what we represent in our music.

A lot of our music came out of a lot of weird psychology and weird emotions. When you play the whole body of work, you get tossed all over the place. It’s not easy listening. It’s not even comfortable to listen to.

I don’t want impersonators playing our music badly.

People come up to me and tell me how they were in a dark place and our music helped them out. It’s mind-blowing. It’s not just ‘Rock Lobster’ or ‘Love Shack’ – there’s much more there.

Our music industry is male-driven. There are fewer opportunities for female singers.

We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.

We believe that with our music, we should be saying exactly what we think. We want to speak up for people who don’t have a voice. That’s what our music does.

Well, to be honest with you, yes there is and there is not. But as I am a fan of this kind of music as well as the rest of the guys naturally are – and being a fan, we kind of get pleased by our music as fans and as being in SLAYER.

We’ve met a ton of pro hockey players, got to know them, our music plays in their locker rooms. We’ve always taken pride in that.

When we first came out with our music, the gay question was always there and it was super important for everyone. But for me it was amusing.

The fun image is what we project onstage, because our music is dance music. But it’s not what the group is about We’re very serious about our music and the band and producing good quality songs.

It’s pretty weird to me that our music is as popular as it is.

The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin’ us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein’ drunk or missin’ your woman.

Records and numbers are important, but there’s nothing better than a lot of people being happy through our music.

We’re a band that’s never been okay with the status quo. In a way, it’s allowed us to be more open and confrontational in our music.

We’ve never been shy to admit that Metallica is a huge influence in our lives and on our music.

Most people can’t see beauty and love. I see our music as medicine.

I just hope that our fans are people who are inspired by music, and just use our music as a background or inspiration for whatever it is they do.