Enjoyment of Music Quotes

I never really set out to do anything in the charts with music. It came as a total surprise that I did, and it's fun.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.

When you love the music that you're going to play, of course you're going to do your best.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

Getting to make the music, and having a good time doing it, is the most important thing to us.

It is my great pleasure performing in front of my fans, and I enjoy it a lot.

I always go in with the feeling that I'm gonna have a good time in what I'm doing. I entertain myself when I perform. If I do that, then I can see the other performers enjoying my character.

People understand my message is positive, and at the end of the day, I'm just here to make music that I enjoy and that other people enjoy. I think that's why I have such a loyal fan base.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

I am just creating the music I enjoy to make, and people seem to enjoy it.

Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.

To me, 'Auto Music' wasn't work. It was in-between work.

Yeah, I've mellowed, but not in the sense of liking Radiohead or Coldplay . I don't hate them, I don't wish they had accidents. I think their fans are boring and ugly and don't look like they're having a good time.

We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.

If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

To say that you like music is a bit like saying youlike the whole world.

Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How?... then I dissect it.

I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.

We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Music shouldn't be a chore or feel like any kind of burden.

If you cannot smile when you listen to music, then do not listen to it!

Opera is an exclusive art form, so it cannot be that popular. I just do what I love to do.

Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.