Music Quotes

I auditioned for 'The Voice' because I really wanted to try and figure out a way to get myself out there. I really couldn't imagine doing anything else - music was the only thing that I really clung to.

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

A Grateful Dead concert is much more than the music: it's an experience, almost like being in a family of thousands of people.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

The equipment doesn't matter, it's the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I dance colors. Music shows me colors. I frequently say, 'I dance music; the music does not dance me.'

I'm such an avid magazine reader - music, art, beauty magazines - and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.

Personally, I've realized that the tradition I thought of as too safe, too pretty, and too conventional is the space where women have been able to gain some practical ground. The area of music where we thought the status quo was really being upset - specifically hard rock - has actually remained the most male-dominated.