Emmy Rossum Quotes

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I learn stuff from making music every time I go in the studio. I'm continuing to try to find new ways to play in a song or be in a song and have a positive impact on a song.

I'm just going to sing my music; I'm going to write my songs, and I think that people get to know me in that sense.

I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I'm most interested in making new music with Yes.

When I'm writing music, I'm not playing a character. I'm not Alice Cooper or Gene Simmons or someone like that, who has acknowledged that they are writing music for a character.

I don't try to be someone I'm not - I've always followed my heart and trance has always been my main sound.

The most important thing is that you honor that musical integrity, whether you make music that sounds like ABBA or you make music that sounds like Void.

I like to make the music that I really love. You're supposed to make your favorite music that no one else played, and I'd like to just keep it at that and not really change it at all.

Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches.

I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.

In the early eighties, there were a lot of artists involved with the music scene. All those young artists, before their careers took off, were into music. Robert Longo used to play some guitar. He had a band for a while. Basquiat had a band. I mean, people were always trying to mix music and art - in fact, I'm guilty of it myself.

I know what my sound is. I'm just trying to get it out there how I can explain it. I'm not trying to write or put out some music that doesn't represent me.

I kind of make music where and when I can, and I guess that's why I collaborate so much.

I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else.

In a way, I created Utopia as a platform for me to become more of a guitar player and less of the kind of balladeer that people were taking me for.

I make the kind of music I like.

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

I know that people think of me in terms of Latin music and that's wonderful, that's my heritage, that's who I am, but there's so much more to me and my music.

I love country music, blues, and punk, and one day I might make those kinds of records.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.

When you make a solo record, it's you. It's your name. It has to be the right songs for how you feel.

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