When I was younger, my dad was making a music video for a band in Montreal. I was goofing around and being a ham. An agent was there and she was telling me, 'Hey, do you think you'd want to go out on auditions?' I was like, 'Yeah, what's an audition? Sure, I'll do it.'
— Vanessa Lengies
Well, I would say that music just happens with me, I'm not in the driver's seat when I am at the piano, the piano is.
— Vanessa Carlton
I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriting I also write actual film music that could be used for movies like war movies and love movies.
— Vanessa Brown
I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.
— Van Morrison
I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
In the future I think the labels on most pop music are going to go. Everyone keeps jumping into everyone else's space.
— Valerie Simpson
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
— Valerie June
When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of the song. That's because I was always around so many voices in church.
People say it's a quiet flow, that it sounds like I'm in a library. That could have come from when I was living in my old place, a nice loft. I was the youngest person in the building, and I would be working alone on my music. I would get emails two or three times a month about 'loud' music, so I became quieter and quieter about making beats.
— Valee
There were a few labels scouting me, but I felt like G.O.O.D. had my best interest at heart. They gave me the freedom to really do what I want, which is to expand my brand, make great music, and find ways to elevate my sound.
I want to work very hard on music, put out a lot of nice product - good quality product - and then just help people out, like a Gucci Mane, like a Future... like a Prince, like a Michael Jackson.
I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture.
— Uzodinma Iweala
But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
— Utada Hikaru
Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.
— Usher
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy.
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
My style is boho chic. I love that time period - the patterns, the prints, the people, the music, the vibe.
— Vanessa Hudgens
The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.
I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
— Vance Joy
As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.
Every writer writes in different ways, and so some write the music first, while others write the lyrics first, and some write while they are doing other things, and it is just nice to see how other writers are writing.
I think of music videos as commercials for songs.
— Valerie Faris
I, for certain, don't mind my son doing music.
My goal for the rap game is just to make a lot of really dope music. That's really where I keep my mindset at: Just being obsessed over making something crazy and new every day.
I rarely like the music I make. It's like nothing's good enough. I just stay in my head, waiting on the next best beat, so I can do something better than what I did.
You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
— Utkarsh Ambudkar
No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.
My music is about where I am at the time. In 'Raymond vs. Raymond,' I was going through a lot of things, and it came out in my music. My marriage fell apart, and I was suddenly a single father.
I like music a lot.
— Usain Bolt
I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.
— Urmila Matondkar
When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s.
So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.
Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
I'm not really into alternative country - I'm into Patsy Cline, who lived down the street from where I lived, and old Dolly Parton records, Kitty Wells and that old stuff. I like country music. I also like Eric Church, who has a great new sound but also holds onto that old sound.
My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
If I play somebody's mixtape, if it gets on my nerves halfway through because it's too loud or everything sounds the same, it makes me want to approach every song I do differently. I don't want somebody saying, 'That's enough of this,' when they listen to my music.
Basically, coming up, listening to Cash Money and Master P, and my mother would listen to Sade and Erykah Badu, things like that. I didn't like that music back then, but now, I guess, to look for soothing music or tones, you know, I would look to that, and I would love to do something with Sade or Erykah Badu.
I'm hands-on with everything. From music to a car to remodeling a house - anything. People don't know that stuff, though, 'cause I put all my focus into music and being mysterious a little bit.
I like to work smart and make music that people want to hear - just finding ways to not get on people's nerves when I'm coming through their ears.
When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
— Utah Phillips
Music is not free to make. Studios are going under because people now work at laptops. Quantity over quality is what begins to happen; the idea of what quality is has changed.
I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
When the music hits you, you feel no pain.
— Urvashi Rautela
