Music Value Quotes

My music is not worth $2.5bn. And also, I'm not rich.

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

All my songs mean something to me.

As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

With music, you've got to find ways to get paid again, 'cause all the cool kids in junior high school and high school, they think you're wack if you pay for music.

Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.

Books don't live and die by awards. You don't listen to an Hector Lavoe album because it won some awards.

Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

There are always meaningful songs for somebody. People are doing their courting, people are finding their wives, people are making babies, people are washing their dishes, people are getting through the day, with songs that we may find insignificant. But their significance is affirmed by others. There’s always someone affirming the significance of a song by taking a woman into his arms or by getting through the night. That’s what dignifies the song. Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has made our lives richer and more interesting, how it has changed our moods, brought out the best in our character and even sometimes helped us earn a living.

If you wake up in the morning and your favorite artist isn't on the service that you're paying ten dollars a month for, sooner or later you lose faith in the subscription model.

As a musician, to be part of anything that promotes peace is very rewarding.

It's about the music, not the color of the person playing the music.

I think music should be the basis of an education, not just something you do once a week.

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.

The human element of making music is what's most important.

As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other.

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.

Record sales don't really mean anything. For us, the pressure is imagining some 15-year-old kid in Cincinnati who buys our album and doesn't feel like he wasted his pocket money.

Life without music would be a mistake.