Aretha Franklin Quotes

There are very few people who have done more than one Christmas album.

I guess if you make quality music then it has a longevity and it will find its place.

If we don't have great music, we're not any company.

Every singer eventually gets around to a Christmas disc.

I'm not interested in disposable music.

Christmas albums are not something you do frequently.

Pop has to exist and it's a great thing.

You don't ever want to devalue music. Music is important; it's necessary product. I always try to make sure that there's a value - that people appreciate music and realize that there's a value to it.

If I put a value on my music, and no one's prepared to pay that, then more fool me, but the idea that the value is created by the consumer is an idiot plan; it can't work.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

One thing we have to remember as songwriters is that we have to consider that country music is the country's music. That doesn't mean that everybody's rural.

I don't know of too many double Christmas albums, so it is something that's new, and hopefully will be fun, and there's plenty of stuff out there to cut.

The challenge is to get everyone to respect music again, to recognize its value.

Country music as a genre, as an art form, is just as valid out there in the pantheon of the arts as classical, jazz, ballet, whatever.

There's all this talk of music needing a monetary value, this ownership of music, even that it needs a physical form. But intrinsically... it's music. It should be better than that.

After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor.

I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

Over the years, I've heard pop artists do some Christmas songs, and I haven't fully cared for them. They weren't the traditional Christmas music that I was raised on and love. Thinking of that, I wanted to make my songs mimic the classic Christmas songs.

I don't think country music needs saving from anything.

I've been really trying to put people onto, like, my sound since I was, like, 17, 16.

I feel that when I listen to music - not that it's bad - it's not emotional. It has a gimmick to it. It's selling something: the artist, the producer, something. The emotional capacity is very small, for the listener as well.

That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.

One of the things that's happened in the music I love over the past five, 10 years is that some people have gotten very old and continued to make music.

I don't buy into this idea that pop has to be frivolous or vacuous, and we've never subscribed to that.

I don't mind talking about the Dixie Chicks, because I feel like it's still alive and kicking.