Music Quotes

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last.

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

My music started out as a complete joke, so really all I was doing was going for witty punchlines to make all of my buddies laugh.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

I began to realize that some of the things Ornette Coleman had said about things being played three or fours ways, independently of each other, were true because Bach had also composed that way.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.

Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.

So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music.

Scotland is one of my favourite places to perform: it's really something special. Scottish audiences are just so enthusiastic; their approach to dance music just feels similar to my own somehow.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all

I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

I was born to be a ballerina - my physique, my spirit, my feeling for music. What I am can only be expressed in dance. I am an erotic woman and that's what dance is.

All ballet, all reading, all music. That was my world, my inner world.

If cities were built by the sound of music, then some edifices would appear to be constructed by grave, solemn tones,--others to have danced forth to light fantastic airs.

Temptation hath a music for all ears.

I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.

I feel there is always room for good music. I want to reach people's soul with my lyrics through whatever vessel God chooses.

Well, I loved singing in the chorus, and there was some connection for me between gospel and choral music.

Ladies and gentlemen, Ive suffered for my music ... now its your turn.

My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's a lot to talk about, and hopefully that's evident in the music.

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Making music is a wonderful way to spend your life, but do it for the love before a career. Enjoy it.

Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever it is, in the end, it just feels like my own music and I'm making it up as I'm going along.

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

If you do the same thing every night, that's the death of music.

If you're going to be an artist, you have to create music that moves you, and to not try to fit in so much with what's happening around you. It's a career choice.

Nina Simone's music is incredibly honest. That's like saying, "Why does Jesus' word still stay around?" It's incredibly honest and it's good.

Never say never - you don't know what's going to happen in the future.

I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.

I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.

The heyday of video music was the mid 80's.

The lights, the music, the stage, and the crowd – putting it all together – magic in the making

It's magazines like HITS that have to label things.

I think if I were over there in America, protest music would be more important. But I'm not going.

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums.

Certainly my only interest is not in Celtic music.

Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?