Music Quotes

But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Just knowing that through my music I actually inspire people is amazing for me and I find it very heartwarming.

I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.

Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive.

With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.

The sound and music are 50% of the entertainment in a movie.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism.

Apart from photography and music videos, I also do graphic design.

The high arts of literature and music stand in a curious relationship to one another, at once securely comfortable and deeply uneasy - rather like a long-term marriage.

I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

I love sad songs. They say so much. I love country music but even the happy songs sound really sad.

It's sad that people listen to music and decide how the singer should look.

You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off.

Salsa, classic rock, soul music, jazz... all of that was a part of my education in making hip-hop music.

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

Danzon is my favorite Cuban music, played by a traditional string orchestra with flute and piano. It's very formally structured but romantic music, which derives from the French-Haitian contradance.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I'd much rather go out and have music randomly presented to me by different DJs than stay home and discover it on my own.

Growing up, I had one very specific idea of what a wedding should be, and that was the wedding of Fraulein Maria and Captain von Trapp in 'The Sound of Music.'

Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

Music is more of a hobby to me than my hobbies, if that makes sense. I love music; my dad and brother were very musical, and music just happens to be one of my hobbies that became my vocation.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Music will always be a part of my life. I love music and I don't care how many units I sell.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

It's VH1, it's everywhere, and you know music is just the world right now. People love music.

I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

I love music, and a lot of it. Jazz is probably on the top with guys like Miles Davis. But I even enjoy music from the '60s and '70s.

The only music I was listening to for ages was old soul. So I wasn't listening to a lot of new music - especially indie music.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

I think it had something to do with my love of music, especially rock music.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

I love music. I've always wanted to do music, even when I started out as a comedian.

I'm a huge electronic-music fan.

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes I listen to Indian music quite often and other non- film music.

To me, Gospel music is really any music that's a testimony and tells a story of what God has done in your life.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

For me the best kind of film music is liturgical music. Liturgical music is essentially a million scores for the same film.