Whit Stillman Quotes

I don't go around, the way many musicians do, with earbuds in my ear listening to my iPod all day and just sticking my head in the music all the time.

I listen to music constantly while writing.

I've become a workaholic. When the shows slow down and there's no press and I can get my time to myself in the studio with my music, I get into this zone, man. I enter this incredible space where I'm just making music. And I feel like I can work with anybody - with Elton John, with Hanson - and I can make something incredible.

I just love to have fun with music, and try to find songs that say something that people want to hear.

I feel it's my job to continue being a student of music if I want to continue being an artist and a producer of other artists. You have to keep filling your mind with other music. You have to be ahead of the curve.

I don't know, samples are just like unlimited ideas, you know? Sometimes a lot of people sample one song. A lot of it is also really just up to the artist and their creativity to see where it goes and what they want to do.

Ninety percent of the time, when I put on my headphones, I forget to turn on my music. Literally 10 minutes will go by before I realize that there's no music.

We're about music. We're not about politics.

I feel like music itself is inspirational enough. Especially with the Internet. Not to sound like a shut-in.

I view myself as a musician and I focus on music - other people may try to focus on the music, but the emphasis is heavily on visuals and performance. They're both equally valid, but different.

Singing and playing have always gone hand-in-hand with me. I love 'em both equally.

You should listen to a lot of different music.

As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm.

I have always been into music. That's my number one passion.

There's always so much music around me now, it seems like everything has to be something with music, so in my spare time I try not to listen to anything. It's so hard for me to listen to something without trying to see a benefit in it: 'Maybe I'll make my own version of that track or maybe I'll do this or that.'

First of all I listen to music. I like music.

I've always listened to music, since I was really, really young.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

And music was a very important part of our lives. The radio was on all day.

The bottom line is that musicians love to make music and always will.

I love music. I listen to a lot of it.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

It was my love for the guitar that first got me into music and singing.

I definitely make time for music.

Sometimes when you're trying to do a record too close to home, you can get really distracted.