Music Depth Quotes

The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.

I remember I heard it in an interview with Michael Jackson one day, saying the art is gone, everybody makes records just to make a record. See, I always want the artist that try to build a whole body of music on one album, so you can enjoy it. So you could say, 'I went with him here, I went with him here.'

There's more to music than just words over tracks.

Music is about depth. Music is about harmony. Music is about notes and tones.

The only guy that speaks at any sort of depth is, in my mind, Eminem. He's a guy that does music that talks about the struggles of addiction and before that violence, with growing up in a broken family, not being a good enough father. So, you know that's what I enjoy about it. It's harder to listen to than ever before because I have a bunch of kids and you just can't put it on.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning.

I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

It's too easy now to find music, and it's therefore too easy to dismiss music, particularly music that doesn't hit you the first time you hear it.

There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

I think the real problem is that nobody buys albums anymore, so you don't get the depth of the artists that are out today. What you get is whatever they felt is politically correct to get on there and actually make some impact. I think that's where you're losing your depth. You're only getting the very top of everything. It really bothers me.

You can look at 'Rumours' and say, 'Well, the album is bright, and it's clean, and it's sunny.' But everything underneath is so dark and murky. What was going on between us created a resonance that goes beyond the music itself.

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

That's the thing: There are so many art songs in jazz. It's a much more rich experience for the singer than people think.

There's a lot for us to achieve and a lot more music to explore. I'm not saying we want to start doing experimental prog or something, where it turns into elevator music after a few records, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface.

All musicians should write poetry or at least read it if they want to improve their game. Except for people who believe lyrics don't matter.

I think that a good song is catchy, and a great song is not catchy - but it has a deeper meaning.

Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth.

Growing up around British music, you realise how much depth there is to it... my stuff is different to the likes of Pitbull for that reason.