Welcome to Music Videos Quotes! Dive into a world where the melodies of your favorite tunes intertwine with captivating visuals, creating moments that linger in the soul. Music videos have long been a medium for artists to express their creativity, convey emotions, and narrate stories that resonate with audiences worldwide. From the iconic choreography of Michael Jackson’s Thriller to the stunning cinematography of Beyoncé’s Formation, music videos have evolved into a form of artistry that transcends mere entertainment, leaving a lasting impact on culture and society.
In this curated collection, we celebrate the power of music videos to inspire, provoke thought, and evoke nostalgia. Whether you’re seeking motivation, reflection, or simply a dose of artistic inspiration, you’ll find an array of quotes from iconic music videos that capture the essence of these visual masterpieces. From profound lyrics to behind-the-scenes anecdotes, these quotes offer a glimpse into the minds of the artists and filmmakers who have shaped the landscape of music video culture. So, unleash your creativity, explore the depths of musical expression, and let these quotes spark your imagination. The stage is set, the spotlight awaits let the journey begin.
I guess YouTube is the new destination spot for music videos. That’s where I go. Travis Barker
I started doing non-surf stuff like commercials, short films, and music videos and just started expanding my filmmaking that way. I started doing that more for a career: you know, it was paying the bills, and it was challenging. I was stimulated by it. Taylor Steele
It’s difficult to see my daughters on television and in music videos, and then I get tweets or comments about crushes and, ‘Hey can I date? And hey, I’d be a good son-in-law type.’ Kenny Smith
My own personal aesthetic is all to do with real actors and real locations and a kind of almost hyper reality and actuality to things. But the digital world, I explore that through other mediums, with music videos and commercials. Even ‘The Road’ was a real learning curve for me with digital effects. John Hillcoat
I’ve always loved music videos – I used to make my own for bands like Pearl Jam. My favorite directors are Michel Gondry, Spike Jonze, and Patrick Daughters. Akiva Schaffer
Film was something that I didn’t see as a step up from music videos, though obviously, music videos, the fact that you work with a crew and a film camera, are the closest to film I’ve ever been. That is the only schooling I’ve ever had. Anton Corbijn
Two things – one is obvious: always keep making. The second thing, with regard to music videos specifically – the music video industry can be a place that takes advantage of young freelancers and filmmakers. Make sure you’re making stuff that you’re proud of and you can get behind. Hiro Murai
I’m obsessed with music videos, and I just go on marathons of watching a ton of music videos. Kim Petras
Music videos are really expensive, and if I mess it up, it’s like, ‘Oh, there goes 15,000 dollars,’ you know? Jay Park
I started casting. I cast music videos, but I kept getting fired from jobs because I was iconoclastic in my ways of casting. Lee Daniels
I usually work in music videos, where we shoot, like, 10 to 12 setups and 60 shots or something. Hiro Murai
I’ve directed web series, music videos, film shorts, and theater. It’s just a hat I put on. Malik Yoba
When I was doing music videos, everybody was very snobbish about music video directors doing commercials. It was all guys from ad agencies. David Slade
I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression. Thomas Dolby
I think going on tour, having lots of songs and music videos would be super cool. JoJo Siwa
I think before, in the ’80s, it was more about fashion and music videos and a lot of radio: getting out there and the fans learning who you were and your music. Tiffany Darwish
We didn’t have music videos. You weren’t an overnight sensation. You had to work at it and learn your craft: how to take care of your voice, how to pace your concerts, all that trial and error. Aretha Franklin
We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music. Grace Chatto
Nobody is really going to bring my vision to life like the way that I am. Before I was doing my own music videos, it was not really my vision. Joyner Lucas
I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos. Rachel Roy
Music videos may seem old hat now, but let me tell you, in the summer of 1981, MTV was indubitably the coolest thing ever invented. And the people who were in the videos… coolest people ever. No question. Julia Quinn
When I do music videos, I like to do a take, then see how it looks, so I can correct it. Skepta
Regularly in music videos, I’ll write the pitch and convince the artists that this is a good idea, and then I’m having to make concessions to meet in the middle. Hiro Murai
I get offers to do huge-budget music videos with big production companies all the time, but I have no interest. Grimes
Pop music means everything to me. I’ve been listening to pop since I was kid, running home from school to watch Britney Spears and Spice Girls and Christina Aguilera music videos, and it felt like it was a world to escape to for me personally. Kim Petras
Music videos, to me, are like an extension of a song. Kelsea Ballerini
As a singer, I always try to keep my music videos clean. Himesh Reshammiya
I produce some of my music videos on a $200 budget. But I produce most of my videos on zero budget. I have a studio in my apartment – which is actually just a green screen I have tacked on my wall and some lamps to light everything. iJustine
Music videos were an outlet. They were the jobs most easily available to me, but creatively, they’re also so free form; there are no rules whatsoever. Hiro Murai
I occasionally rapped along to some homegrown Korean rap. And then a friend introduced me to Wu-Tang and played me ‘Enter the 36th Chambers.’ It was very shocking. And then I started to look for different albums. This was pre-Internet, so it’s hard to find the music, and it was even harder to find music videos. G-Dragon
I want to change things with everything I do, not for the sake of changing things, but for the sake of taking greater and greater risks, or how minimalist I might be able to be, or how I can involve elements or ingredients in music videos that are not musical, for instance. Jonathan Glazer
Michael Jackson was one of popular culture’s greatest artists. Nobody danced better. Few sang more compellingly. No one understood more about stage spectacles or music videos. He was an innovator. His reach was global. Margo Jefferson
I always would dream of making music videos. Whenever I make music, I always have a visual in my mind. I always see things. Dan Reynolds
My ambition was always to bag a lead role in a film, and hence, I refrained from doing any ads, TV serials, music videos, as I felt that a fresh face always works much better. It was a gamble, and I took that gamble telling myself that I will give it my all to bag a lead role. Ranveer Singh
I’ve always written the storyboards for the music videos, and it’s been hard working with directors trying to get them to understand what I’m thinking. Melanie Martinez
I’m obsessed with the power of music and image together. There’s also something about music videos that are incredibly glamorous – there’s a fetishistic aesthetic to them that you don’t really see in movies in the same way. Max Minghella
The thing that helped me get into the film business was that I went to school in Athens, Georgia and managed to get on, um, working on music videos for a band called R.E.M. and that kind of opened up a lot of doors for me. Alton Brown
Dance has been a driving force in my life for 25 years. From music videos and hip hop, to jazz and musical theater, to ballet and classic modern dance, I have had extensive exposure to a variety of techniques that inspire my own electric style. Anna Kaiser
I studied directing prior to acting and I’ve done music videos and documentaries and things that were sort of well-received. Matthew Gray Gubler
I hate being on camera. Being on stage is totally fine, but when it comes to music videos, I’m always like, ‘Are my eyes crossed?’ Alana Haim
MTV essentially killed ‘American Bandstand’ and ‘Solid Gold,’ because music videos are an easier way for pop artists to gain television exposure. Don Cornelius
I’m certainly treated differently to the boys in the band. People make assumptions about what I do and don’t do within our projects. We produce our music together and I direct and edit the music videos. Grace Chatto
I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials. Helen Reddy
People love me when I do selfie videos, so I know they like me in music videos as well. Otherwise, I would have just been a playback singer. Neha Kakkar
My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more. Anton Corbijn
I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos. Alex Winter
I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I’ve only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it. Barkhad Abdi
I started making music videos in my twenties and made my first feature, ‘Guncrazy,’ at 29. I then spent the greater part of my thirties directing features. Tamra Davis
Some people draw a line between music videos and short films, looking down on music videos as a format, but there’s so much potential in music videos. Hiro Murai
Friends came on the road, came on tour, came in my music videos; I got in the studio with them. I’m a really loyal person, and I don’t have a really large group of friends, but the people I hang out with I really, really care about, and they continue to be a part of my life. Maggie Rogers
I was cast in commercials, music videos, and booked a lot of modeling jobs. But my acting career never took off because I was holding myself back. I was acting across from male partners who didn’t know that I am trans. I was being taught by teachers who didn’t know. Angelica Ross
Music videos are like tools that young artists use to earn respect from their peers, to ‘represent.’ Jme
I searched YouTube for ‘deaf music videos’ and watched them with the sound muted. I noticed that though you could understand the words being signed, the sense of rhythm was lost. That’s when I had the idea to create a video where you could see the sounds you couldn’t hear. Andy Mineo
I’ve loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos. Ashley Tisdale
God bless Skrillex. I love the kid, but he puts out a new video, what, every four weeks? I’m like the Dos Equis guy. I don’t normally do music videos, but when I do, I go big. Deadmau5
Music videos were this lucky career opportunity. They were assignments. I was providing a service, and they were meant to be punchy and gimmicky and fun. Mark Romanek
With music videos becoming a popular form of content these days, I am thankful that Is Qadar has also found a place in the hearts of the viewers as well as on the top chartbusters. Tulsi Kumar
I have always maintained that music videos and web series are opportunities for actors and technicians, who haven’t been able to do films together, to collaborate and make something exciting. Saqib Saleem
I’m looking to produce more stuff: TV shows, commercials, music videos and short films. I’m building my catalog so I can have some fun in between the times that I get to a movie. Larenz Tate
A film album has these big stars – like a Shah Rukh Khan or a Salman Khan. Independent music videos don’t have that luxury, and you cannot feature big stars in all the songs of your album. Neha Kakkar
When I film my music videos, I always try to fulfill a part of my dream of being a filmmaker. Bill Kaulitz
What is portrayed on stage and in my music videos is different from my everyday lifestyle. But I want to people to see me as CL on stage and in my music. CL
I’ve noticed that a lot of people in film always seem interested in music videos, like it’s some, like, really exciting thing they’ve always wanted to do or something. Jack Antonoff
I’ve been a fan of Dave Meyers and his music videos. CL
I always think about fashion when it comes to making music and music videos… what the colours will look like, what the material will be, how will it work with the sound of the music. Charli XCX
I love music videos, I really do. I think it’s kind of sad that it’s a dying art form. Adam Levine
When you are doing music videos through the ’90s, which I did, and the 2000s, you were put in the position, really, as an independent filmmaker. You were being financed by a major record company or a minor record company or whatever. David Slade
In many ways, ‘Lords of Chaos’ is my first real movie. I went deeper with this film than any of my other movies. I approached my other films like I did my music videos or commercials, like jobs. But ‘Lords of Chaos’ I wrote myself, and it’s a close, personal story. Jonas Akerlund
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
All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. There were music videos before Michael Jackson, and there were music videos after Michael Jackson. He brought such a huge change in the marketing and positioning of the music video. Sonu Nigam
A part of ‘Happy New Year’ is inspired by western pop culture, the pop music videos of Michael Jackson, Madonna and Duran Duran in the ’80s. Farah Khan
I’ve always wanted to be a director; it’s just how my mind has always worked. If I hear music, I see music videos and all the shots and setups to edit it all together. If I interact with a person, I’m seeing a whole scene come to life. Noel Wells
It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don’t think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession. Wayne Coyne
Most of music videos were short films – they had dialogue, action sequences. I shot with cranes and helicopters. I wanted to created cinema-like moments. F. Gary Gray
A Red camera is the best. When I started shooting videos, I had to pay ten thousand dollars just to rent one. I was like, ‘I do all these music videos, and I still don’t own a Red camera?’ So I spent about a hundred thousand dollars to buy one. My own bread. Boom! Mike Will Made It
There’s not a lot of music videos that are totally, totally disturbing. Andy Milonakis
I think music videos in particular and film in general – it’s really good at communicating tone and feeling. Hiro Murai
My first acting job – I used to do commercials, and I had done a couple music videos – but my first job job was ‘ATL’ with T.I. I auditioned for that, like, five times. I didn’t have an agent. And then, from there, my life changed. Lauren London
At my high school, it was the first time they had TV monitors up, and before class would start, they would have CMT and the music videos playing. Steve Kazee
I don’t work with Sia every day; it depends what we do, whether we do performances or music videos, so the schedule is weird, but when we’re off, we always try to see each other in between. We just hang out; we went to brunch one time, but for the most part I go to her house, and we eat and watch TV. Maddie Ziegler
I don’t think any artist has really relied on music videos the way I do. It’s almost like my radio. Lil Dicky
When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa – it goes on and on. Pauley Perrette
Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch – I bet from the outside, too – because you learn so much, just like in our music… It’s really fun work. Cam
I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff. Ziad Doueiri
I think it’s because all our music videos have chubby girls wearing crazy makeup and crazy gay dudes and trannies that are overly stylized and over-the-top. Being compared to John Waters and girl groups isn’t a bad thing, though. Hunx
As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make. Queen Latifah
I’m just so used to music videos or live TV, so to really see something that’s scripted and you have to do it over and over again to get every angle – it’s fascinating to me. I would love to do a little acting. Maren Morris
Obviously, movies and music videos are different because they’re different lengths, and in a movie, you have more time to explore an idea. But I feel like they’re all the same, really. Spike Jonze
I think you can make a gorgeous movie on any piece of equipment. Look at ‘Tangerine,’ which is a beautiful movie shot on an iPhone. You see so many movies that are impeccably shot but are vapid, and there’s no audience for that except for other cinematographers who just like to watch two-hour-long music videos. Rachel Morrison
I guess you could say the beginning of my career as an actress was when I started performing in music videos. Sheri Moon Zombie
You see the music videos and the bling and the cars, but all of that goes home at the end of the shoot. They make nothing because there’s less and less money in the music industry. Jameela Jamil
4Shbab has been dubbed Islamic MTV. Its creator, who is an Egyptian TV producer called Ahmed Abu Haiba, wants young people to be inspired by Islam to lead better lives. He reckons the best way to get that message across is to use the enormously popular medium of music videos. 4Shbab was set up as an alternative to existing Arab music channels. Shereen El Feki
My real motivation came from my quest for music videos to have the equally soul-touching emotional resonance that straight music does. Honestly, I’m not sure they ever can. Chris Milk
I was on Tumblr when I was 12 or 13. I was on YouTube, too. I had a channel and made music videos. It had 50,000 subscribers. Alexis Ren
Most of my music videos were made for under $200. Grimes
As a kid, I’d watch MTV and think how great it would be to have my own music videos on those shows. Now I turn on MTV and, along the bottom of the screen, it often reads, ‘Coming next… Pixie Lott.’ That’s so strange that I can’t even begin to make sense of it. Pixie Lott
When I approach my music and my music videos, obviously all of the subjects and stories that I tell come from an honest, truthful place and the experiences that I’ve had. Hayley Kiyoko
My record company had to beg me to stop filmin’ music videos in the projects. No matter what the song was about, I had ’em out there. Nas
I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity. Jay Park
I don’t feel as though I’ve graduated from commercials or music videos. In my mind, they aren’t compartmentalised. Jonathan Glazer