Music Quotes
I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.
We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater.
I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves.
I think there is a certain perversity in my music in that I continue, you know, to eat at the same ball of vomit year after year.
Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
Sometimes, I get in a mindset where I don't like my own music. I hate yourself and my music because I'm doing it every day. I feel like a clown.
My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.
Musicians are like politicians. They're the last people who should be making music, just like politicians are the last people who should be running things.
I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.
I was born into the century in which novels lost their stories, poems their rhymes, paintings their form, and music its beauty, but that does not mean I have to like that trend or go along with it.
Jazz is not something that can be defined through blunt instruments. It is much more poetic than that.
The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.
In painting one must search rather for suggestion than for description, as is done in music.
You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Polyphonic painting is superior to music in that there, the time element becomes a spatial element. The notion of simultaneity stands out even more richly.
I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
There's such a wealth of great music, clothes or whatever. There is so much great stuff out there, that why would you not still be interested if you've grown up in that kind of culture?
That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others.
Music is always my great escape... I get to be that wild child and do whatever the hell I want on stage.
If I had grown up in any place but New Orleans, I don't think my career would have taken off. I wouldn't have heard the music that was around this town. There was so much going on when I was a kid.
At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written.
The most important thing is just like creativity and music. It's the one thing that you never lose if you just stay loyal to that.
You learn from experiences, and I suppose that's where I color most of my music, from experiences.
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody.
I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.
Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the laws of the State always change with them.
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'
I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.
Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. ... This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.