Sophie Hunger Quotes

I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I'm not a household word. The climate for original music is always a bit difficult.

I'm of the opinion that as a DJ you must always play what you love and ignore what's 'trendy' because true passion always eclipses what's fashionable. Quality is always fashionable.

The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there.

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.

Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record.

I just try to make the best music that I can. People are going to label it whatever they're going to label it.

The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.

It bothers me when musicians listen to music from the '60s and try and recreate it. Those people weren't trying to recreate music from the '20s. Why do it?

With so much of music blurring the lines between ersatz and authenticity, at least the 'Rock Band' game is a tribute to rock rather than an affront.

Taylor Swift - I don't ever hear anything of hers where I'm like, 'Oh, so-and-so could've cut that.'

We cut songs that touch us because if they don't touch us first, there's no way in the world we're going to be able to sell those songs to somebody else.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

The moment artists can just do what they love to do then music will go right back to where it used to be. I mean back in the '60s and '70s and '80s, that's what it was.

When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.

'None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

I know it sounds really lame and hater-ish, but I think 2009 was maybe the worst year for music ever.

Any band that is out there chasing it is doing more destruction to music then someone who is out there playing what they truly feel.

I was raised on a farm in East Tennessee, and my first concert was Britney Spears. It's my job as a country music artist to be honest about that.

The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music.

I don't care what you're playing. You can be playing EDM music. Well, guess what? That came out in the early '80s. There's no way to be original. All you can do is put yourself into it and do the best you can.

I think music will thrive where it wants to.