Welcome to New Music Quotes, a curated collection of inspiring, thought-provoking, and insightful quotes about the world of music. From legendary musicians to contemporary artists, composers, and industry insiders, these quotes offer unique perspectives on the power, beauty, and significance of music in our lives.
Music has an extraordinary ability to transcend barriers, evoke emotions, and unite people from all walks of life. Whether it’s a catchy melody that lifts our spirits, poignant lyrics that resonate with our experiences, or intricate compositions that challenge our perceptions, music has the power to move us in ways that words alone cannot express.
Here, you’ll find a diverse selection of quotes that capture the essence of music – its impact on culture, its ability to inspire creativity, its role in shaping identity, and much more. Whether you’re a musician, a music enthusiast, or simply someone who appreciates the magic of melody, these quotes are sure to strike a chord. So, dive in, explore, and let the music speak to you.
I’m overly excited to finally announce this amazing global partnership deal back home with EMI Music. I know I have mentioned doing music in the past but for legal reasons I was not in a position to release any new music. Mel B
Some people ask why we bother to make new music, but we still love doing it. Robin Zander
Every time you learn a new language, your understanding of language overall grows, so every time I would learn new music, my understanding of music would grow because I was taken to an extreme in a different direction, and that was, in effect, carrying over into what I do. Kamasi Washington
Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music. Elliott Carter
I’m always online looking for new music and things like that. CC Sabathia
New music is absolutely integral to classical music. Susanna Phillips
The last time I really got into new music that wasn’t heavy metal was probably like… TV on the Radio? I think that was it. That’s the last time. Tim Schafer
I was doing these music videos online for a couple years, and they’d be doing well to varying degrees. And I released an album, and with the album, I released three new music videos, and one of them was featured on Jezebel. Rachel Bloom
When I hear music that parents hate, or older musicians hate, I know that’s the new music. When I hear older people saying, ‘I hate Rap or Techno’ I rush to it. George Clinton
As a DJ, it’s my job to break new music. And instead of it just being the stuff that’s coming from the major labels or the big pop records, I’ve always gravitated to something that’s just different, you know? Diplo
I think that we all have to have that rite of passage of dating the tortured artist who seems cooler than we think we are; we aspire to be like them, and we’re excited that somebody is turning us on to new music or a new lifestyle. Drew Barrymore
I don’t want to be an artist; I don’t really want to sing – though I do sing on a few songs. But I want to be the guy that presents new music from both new artists and established artists at the same time. Poo Bear
Older audiences are hard to win over. They’re very specific in their tastes and critical of new music. Melanie Fiona
There will be no new music until it’s good enough and until I’m ready. Adele
I look forward to the future – and going into the studio to make new music. Diana Ross
At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I’m amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I’ve been born and new music that they create, so it’s amazing to still be on the radar. Johnny Mathis
A way to make new music is to imagine looking back at the past from a future and imagine music that could have existed but didn’t. Like East African free jazz, which as far as I know does not exist. Brian Eno
I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all. Mark Knopfler
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they’ve never heard. Casey Abrams
I have new music coming out. I’m working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I’m doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh. Doug E. Fresh
The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I’ve got it. Cole Swindell
When I come around people, I’m up to date on everything. I know all the new music that’s coming out, all the stuff that ain’t came out yet. Juicy J
People say I seem very negative about new music – well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I’ll tell ’em. I don’t like ’em. I’ll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player’s mam or summat, but I’m afraid that’s just me. Noel Gallagher
I’m constantly fighting with my manager to reduce the amount of time I have to spend on promotional activities, so I can get back in the studio and work on new music. Rivers Cuomo
I was the only punk rocker at my high school. And there were at least a handful of black kids who liked hip-hop. Both were kind of the new music of the day, and it was lonely being the only punk. Rick Rubin
From my time in ‘King Crimson,’ I’d describe a Progressive band as one that keeps trying to break musical barriers, and keeps trying to do new music. Tony Levin
I love all Yes music and love to play it live, but I’m most interested in making new music with Yes. Billy Sherwood
And for REO – they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands. James Young
I’ve always supported new music from classic bands, especially if it’s good. Eddie Trunk
My experience with Dino Jr. proved that making new music was a worthwhile pursuit. Lou Barlow
There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I’ve been doing so much promotion for this new single. Jamelia
I’m just out of touch with new music in general, and I only know about it if I’m hanging out with someone that knows about it, or I catch it on YouTube. Liz Phair
Before the Internet, we were in a different sort of dark age. We had to wait to hear news on TV at night or in print the next day. We had to go to record stores to find new music. Cocktail party debates couldn’t be settled on the spot. Marvin Ammori
I think that this television medium, or whatever we call it now, is a really great frontier to turn people onto music – to new music or old music. It’s a great platform where you’ve got people’s ears, and you can throw something at them. I like to use it to the fullest that I can. Brian Reitzell
My new music video, ‘My Life’ featuring Eminem and Adam Levine, the only person in the actual video who you can physically make out besides myself and Adam Levine is Andre Dirrell. Curtis Jackson
I’m coming up with new music, I’m in the best shape of my life, I’m real sharp, my energy is strong. I look at it as: I’m just following the energy. That’s how I sum that up. Doug E. Fresh
We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged… we want to give them new music. Lauren Jauregui
I kind of date my musical discovery back to when I was 13 years old, getting my iTunes account and using that as a major tool to discover new music. Nick Jonas
I’m not trying to keep up or adapt. I’m allowing myself to grow, evolve and create new music. LL Cool J
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock ‘n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there’s always a new generation with new music. Bobby Vinton
Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts. Shaun White
But still as compared to many, many orchestras in the world, I think you find a lot more new music and living composers on our programs than many other places. Michael Tilson Thomas
I take certain steps to make sure I’m relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I’m not just playing ‘Get By’ over and over. I have 12 albums. Talib Kweli
The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all. Gavin Bryars
The Ramones are the type of group where it took the world, like, 30 years to catch up with them. Because we were kind of breaking new ground, coming up with new ideas and different concepts which kind of blazed a trail for a whole new music scene, really. Tommy Ramone
You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway. Sebastian Bach
I’ve been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love. Caroline Shaw
The public doesn’t want new music. Arthur Honegger
I use computers for email, staying current with my own website as well as finding important information through other websites. I also use it for creating MP3 files of new music I’m working on. Clint Black
And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs – the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live. James Young
I listen to all kinds of music – new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything. Gyorgy Ligeti
I’m inspired by artists and musicians. There are so many wonderful and talented people in the world. I love discovering new music, new writers, or new art. Alicia Keys
There’s so much excellent new music around that I can’t afford to buy it all and I haven’t the time to review as much as I’d like. I can’t remember a better time to be a musician or to listen to music! Malcolm Wilson
I don’t see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won’t pay me an advance for it and then they get angry when they can’t get it. Prince
What motivates us is always new music. Nuno Bettencourt
I am such a music fiend. I go after so many different types of music. I’m on iTunes constantly just buying new music! Austin Butler
Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride. Chrisette Michele
I’ve already got notebooks full of ideas for new music, so I’m gonna kind of nurture that just like I do all of my ideas and perfect it until it’s ready and then I’ll just let it go. Fergie
Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us. Lou Gramm
I would hate to think that some people have found themselves in a musical cul-de-sac and have ceased to explore new music, or at least music that is new to them, because they are so glued to the past. Henry Rollins
YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like. Jake Bugg
The very fact that I’ve had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects. Juice Newton
I’m perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my household. Taj Mahal
I know too many musicians that have to tour on the same 10 songs, and they burn out. They get back to their house, and they have no reason to write new music. They are music’d out. Justin Vernon
I was talking to my publisher, Jamie Ceretta, who’s one of my closest confidants and allies when I’m working on new music. I feel like I can always count on his judgement because he’ll tell me if he doesn’t like something. It’s sometimes hard to get people to tell you if they don’t like something. Jim James
Being on the road is a great habitat for creating new music because there’s so many different experiences. Kip Moore
I start the day off with a pot of coffee, and I read all the newspapers online, then I delve around for new music. Jamie Hince
In a small town, it’s either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B. Sam Hunt
I’m always working on new music. Kevin Parker
We’ve never been a band that gets up on stage and says, ‘OK, we’re going to play our entire new album.’ Of course we want to introduce new music, but we also want to play the songs people want to sing along with. Ed Kowalczyk
I tend to want to form bands and then create new music within them. Queen was an exception, and we joined forces because it just seemed to work when we played together. Paul Rodgers
I’m very bad with music. I don’t know any new music. I’ve listened to the same 10 or 12 albums my whole life. Bobby Moynihan
I’m always searching for new music, and I change what I listen to on a regular basis. Rafael Nadal
I’m one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I’m not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it’s constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes. Bill Bailey
Musicians are hungry for new music. Bryce Dessner
It’s amazing to be nominated for the Brits’ Critics’ Choice Award 2016. It’s such a significant award that highlights the importance of new music, so it’s a genuine honour to have been nominated alongside some other incredible new acts from the U.K. Jack Garratt
It’s been really interesting watching people’s reactions to the new music, to the old music and also watching how modern young people will be standing in front of something going on like live music, and there’s a camera in front of their face. Brandon Boyd
Twenty years ago I went to see this show The Best Disco in Town Live, it was all these disco acts like Gloria Gaynor and Tavares and I had the best night of my life. There was no new music, it was just hits you loved growing up. Limahl
Jane’s Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively. Dave Navarro
I can’t leave home without certain movies. ‘The Godfather’ is a big one for me. And I’ve gotta have my beats so I can write new music. Future
Users socialize to figure out what they’re going to do on the weekend. They use MySpace to discover new music and post events. Musicians upload their music. People use it for entertainment purposes or to sell goods in the classified area. MySpace makes what they do in the offline world a) more efficient or b) more interesting. Chris DeWolfe
The thing is, I really can’t relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way – an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don’t listen to any new music. I feel very secluded. Michael Cera
I listen to all kinds of music. I love underground, new music that’s popping. Juicy J
People don’t realize how much it means to your music to record on tape, whether it be for new music or old music. People don’t realize how much or how imperative it is to use actual hardware when making drums because those are actual percussion samplers. They’re hardware instruments that are made to have the drum hit. Adrian Younge
The code of life is like a Beethoven symphony. We have not yet learned how to write music like that. But evolution does it very well. I am learning how to use evolution to compose new music. Frances Arnold
Sometimes you’re gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that’s when you find new music, places that you’ve never been before. Butch Trucks
I have a day job Monday to Friday. I work at a record label in Brooklyn called Ba Da Bing. It’s a great indie label and I listen to music all day. I meet people online and find out about the cool new music blogs. Sharon Van Etten
There are half a billion people that listen to music online and the vast majority are doing so illegally. But if we bring those people over to the legal side and Spotify, what is going to happen is we are going to double the music industry and that will lead to more artists creating great new music. Daniel Ek
I’d love to do an action film. I’d love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read the book and then go see the movie. I’d love to have a show on Disney; I love working for them. And I’m also working on getting some new music out of my own. Katherine McNamara
For me, to turn people on to new music, on to things that are going on in the world, is important. Nikki Sixx
When I first started blogging, it was about getting out new music and capturing artists working in the studio. This was before artists were so social. They weren’t so hands-on then. Karen Civil
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I’m introducing some new music that people haven’t really heard me do in quite this fashion. Al Jarreau
Absolutely, I never stop working on new music. Shawn Mendes
I’m a computer nerd. I’m behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music. Martin Garrix
It’s really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we’ve become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there. Josh Schwartz
But that’s the problem with playing new music sometimes before the record comes out: You have a bunch of yayhoots with opinions. Jake Owen
I do not think classical music faces any threat because new music is being made through computer, as the real charm of classical is its purity, and one who is seeking purity will surely find classical music in spite of so many alternatives. Adnan Sami
I never want to lose the audience’s attention or break up the party, but at the same time, it would be weird not to do some new music. Dierks Bentley
You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate. George Clinton
If anybody is excited about my music, that’s all I care about. I care about people who are excited about new music. Diplo
