Top 45 Music Video Quotes

I want to master every style of music. I want to master every way of performing. I want to master every artsy music video style and just be the greatest of all-time.

Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

‘Runaround Sue’ was a big record for me, as well as the music video for it.

‘Aatishbaazi’ is extremely special to me as it’s the first time I got to direct my music video.

I’ve known about hip-hop for a long time. The first time it intrigued me was when I saw this music video by Tyga on television. I was intrigued by the whole aesthetic. It was very unique.

For me, every music video is a hurdle. Every time I do a music video, I’m constantly fighting to get my point across. As a gay woman, that’s also a big hurdle.

Acting in a music video is basically about lip syncing songs and giving expressions that represent what the song is about. While acting for the silver screen, you have to deliver dialogues, remember them, and you have to be in a certain frame of mind.

The pop-music video is one of the most powerful communication tools we have. Most people have access to a phone, and you can click a video and absorb it in three minutes. If it’s potent enough, you can take in the message or have some sort of experience in multiple dimensions, the music with the image.

My first professional acting role was a small part in a television series called ‘The Wizard.’ I later had the opportunity to work on Michael Jackson’s Moon-walker music video.

I wanted to go on a project which shows the mixture of Chae rin and CL, not just CL on stage or in a music video.

If I can have the opportunity to go into an editing room, it’s like the golden ticket for me. All I want is to learn about everything else in the filmmaking process. I just directed a music video which just came out and that’d sort of be the area of the field that I’m going to move into, I hope.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‘Runaway’ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‘That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.’

My work is entertainment, and I look at what entertains people, whether it’s a selfie video or a music video.

The music video director really wanted to incorporate the imagery of guns into ‘Nega Dola’ because the lyrics are very aggressive. It kind of portrayed a very strong image. So that’s how we connected weapons and the imagery of a dangerous atmosphere.

‘Shelby Star’ is going great. We shot a music video, and I’m building an app and some other things for the project.

My first music video was Falguni Pathak’s ‘Meri Chunar’ when I was 15. Then came ‘Shake It Daddy,’ which brought me a lot of recognition.

When I found the ‘Human Nature’ music video as a teenager – I’ve been a drag queen since 15 – I just loved that music video so much because it’s such a celebration of her femininity and her sexuality. I thought it was so powerful.

I’ve always wanted to make a music video with skating and different imagery, something very artistic.

When I graduated from college in early 2010, I decided that I needed to create a calling card, some kind of business card that people can link to my name and face. So I did this ‘Mad Men Theme Song… With a Twist’ music video. I released it just as I moved to L.A.

It was a privilege to direct the music video for Adele’s beautiful, heartbreaking song, ‘Hello.’ When I first heard it, all the images appeared clearly in my head – and her trust and generosity allowed me to work with abandon artistically and emotionally, like she always does. It made me extremely proud.

The more the country starts listening to music instead of consuming it in the format of music video, the more the independent music will flourish.

I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video.

When we were trying to come up with a concept for our music video for ‘The Stage’ we basically run through a lot of different ideas, and ultimately, I sat and studied the lyrics that Matt had written – and they really resonated with me.

Shooting a music video sometimes can be a job.

Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career – particularly when I was on camera performing – that I had died.

I’d like to be able to recall every J. Lo music video dance routine ever, naturally.

Post COVID-19, there will be a rise in the number of people only listening to songs. The rise in audio consumption is great for indie artistes, including me, because those who are unable to afford a music video, but have a great song, will benefit from this.

My new music video, ‘My Life’ featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell.

I really like ‘Wish U Were Here.’ It’s about being on tour, but really missing someone and wishing she was there with me. I shot the music video at different places all around the country, where I’ve been on tour.

Sometimes I’ll watch a music video of a great performer like Beyonce and try to follow her choreography. Yeah, maybe I look ridiculous, but dancing gets your energy up a lot better than running on a treadmill or pedaling a stationary bike.

Bunty is a piglet that comes up with a lot of funny antics. Dancing is among its strengths and I’m glad people are liking the music video where it grooves to popular Telugu songs. I have made the character very likeable.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

Whether it’s a TV show or a music video, the seed of the idea is what’s driving my decisions, not the format or the outcome.

When I started making music, I just wanted to be the producer who sang the hooks. I wanted to be Pharrell, honestly, the one who made the beats and was in the music video with the girls.

I am really proud of where me and Ghastly’s track ‘Crank It’ ended up. It was our first music video and big label release. It was such a dope experience working with OWSLA on that record.

Some of white middle America haven’t seen a black gay guy in a music video before.

When I create a song, I immediately think about what I’m going to wear when I perform that song. I think about the music video treatment and about how I’m going to look on stage when I perform the record. The connection is so obvious that it’s a single package. An outfit, to me, is almost a tool to express the music.

My wife Juliana and I first saw Eurovision while on our honeymoon in Greece in 2006, and we were amazed by it. They basically recreate a music video onstage, and pyro cannons, LED video screens, background dancers, fireworks, costume changes, and wind machines are their tools.

Nobody knew me in Delhi when I shot for my first music video, ‘Haaye Dil,’ at India Gate.

My favorite artist in the world is Michael Jackson, and he revolutionized the music video aspect of music.

We were so fed up with how we had to be the stereotypical girl who looks perfect in the music video: she’s coming out of the water in a bikini with her long tan legs. Not all of us are that girl.

And my idols in music videos are people like Michel Gondry and Spike Jonze and Johnathan Glazer and David Fincher and that’s always kind of been my reference point in music video and commercial directors.

All I wanted to do was to perform my music, so I never really thought about photo shoots or music video shoots or interviews. You can’t anticipate those things – you just can’t plan this as a job.

When I wrote ‘Monsoon,’ I always imagined the music video being shot in India. The song had so much to do with my time in India with my mother as well as leaving her in India during the monsoon season to visit my family in N.Y. It really was a dream come true when I was given the opportunity to shoot in India.

I’ve never been one to talk analytically about a music video or whatever I do.