Beyonce Knowles Quotes

I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.

Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

I hope I don't give music a bad name.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I love playing and working on music. It is something that I feel really lucky to be able to spend my life doing. And I don't sleep much!

I'd like to expand on doing what I love and venture out a bit more. I would like to play consistantly good music. Eventually someday I would like to open up a school and teach kids about music.

I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I play the harmonium. I had learned to use the guitar for a bit before becoming a part of the music industry, but unfortunately didn't pursue it fully. I would love to learn to play the piano because it holds a unique connect for me in terms of rhythm.

Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.

I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.

I'm not a DJ - I don't know how to scratch or mix records, but I know how to party, and I know music. I grew up in Philly; it's a very musical city. My house was full of music.

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

I don't listen to so much music now. I did when I was younger. Music is so much part of my work. I like peace and quiet now when I go home.

My thing is music, period.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

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.

I'm very much interested in music specifically and wanted to make a film about it, but not in an atmosphere of censorship.

My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.

I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.