Music Quotes
That's my fun time so, to me, doing my homework, studying on what I do, watching the movies, listening to music, all that inspires me so I focus a lot on that and practice
We've always had a lot of different influences and we've always liked catchy music from the Beatles to Cheap Trick to Elvis Costello.
Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies.
I'm an anxious person. What I like best is to smoke cigarettes and listen to music. A perfect day for me is a day with coffee, cigarettes, and music, to quote Jim Jarmusch.
In the mental calmness of a spiritual life, I have found that the answers to the whys in our lives are able to come to you. In my music I find the same thing.
I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'.
To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old.
When you get respect from the people who are buying your music and coming to your shows, there's an expectation that you have to live up to your own standards.
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?
It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.
Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.
I do think that music has a special ability to get behind enemy lines and win hearts and minds.
Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.
Rather than listening to music while you paint, listen to the sort of wisdom that can help grow your career.
We've never done a coordinated music effort. Everything else we've done has been around a holiday - Halloween, Mardi Gras, half way to Mardi Gras, St. Patrick's Day.
Hip hop is the new rock n' roll, you know what I mean? And anybody who doesn't think that is just sort of living in the past. It's all just American music, really, when you get right down to it.
Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.
I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way
I do listen to a lot of music. Actually, I very often ask directors if they can offer up a play list. They very often have one anyway that they're listening to.
If you know what kind of music somebody loves, then you can kind of figure out why they do what they do.
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?
This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Bruno Mars, he's using Spotify, creating playlists and listening to music through it.
What do artists do? Artists give people something they didn't know they were missing: a dance, a piece of music, a painting, a piece of sculpture. Catering to that need is the best business strategy.
To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.
The UK is always ahead of their time in music, and America always follows them five years later.
I never thought about being an actor. I was just going to play music and baseball. That’s all I was going to do. To this day, that’s what I do. I just added movies to it.
The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio.
When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it's just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.
Personally I have my own political views and being straight-edge I'm happy to talk about that, but the music that always meant the most to me, was more emotional.
I don't really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own.
Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it.