Regina Spektor Quotes

I love music, singing, and playing piano (though I'm not very good). And I adore musical theater.

I love putting the music together. It's like art.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

As a teenager I had friends who had little music studios in their bedrooms and garages. I'd go and play around; very soon, my hobby became a passion.

I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music.

I've got to be honest: I don't listen to any music now. I don't even listen to mine! I like to walk fresh into the studio and have ideas that come straight out of me.

I spent two years day and night in that studio trying to learn what the hell was going on.

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.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

You can still make music that people love, but there won't be more innovation. I started listening to electronic music a long time ago. But mostly I listen to rap. I think rap is the most interesting.

Unlike motor sport, I didn't get into music for the live performances. I like writing and studio work and seeing how a song can come to life.

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Pop music can absorb so many peculiar talents, ranging from the completely nonmusical poseur who just uses music as a kind of springboard for a sense of style, to people who just love putting all that complicated stuff together, brick by brick, on their computers, to people like me who like playing conceptual games and being surprised.

One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music.

I love, love, love just being hands on at all times in the studio.

I love all kinds of music.

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

Songwriting is something I really need to work on. I don't have very many songs but I really love it. I would love to be a great song writer some day.

I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it.

The Beatles production is often so 'perfect' that it sounds computerized. 'Sgt. Pepper' really does sound like it took four months to make.

I love making music, I love composing on my computer, just making crazy ethnic slack orchestral tracks, that's one of my fun things.

I'm really a singer, so I love songs and I love singing. I like rap music, but I didn't grow up freestyling.

We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.