Music Quotes

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Music is the language of God. God's language, music, is not like mathematics or geometry. It is a language of love. If we love music, that is enough.

Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

I love music, and can dance on the desi beats. Punjabi music is my favourite. I listen to artists like Honey Singh. I love his music. I also love watching Bollywood films.

I love music, but more for the context within the music than a certain sound.

The music industry isn't converging toward dance music. Dance music is dance music. It's been around since disco - and way before disco. But there's different versions of dance music.

I really love music and I want to make it better the best I can.

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

My music lives because of real players.

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

I attended a post-college program in L.A. for Music Business and Production. Took several courses involving Music Production, Arrangement, and Songwriting.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.

I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything.

In the new music landscape, with is the democratization of the internet and music in general, I think it can be a lot more collaborative.

People never ask people doing serious music, 'Do you ever think about doing funny music?'

Sometimes I get, "Have you ever thought about doing real music?" I like to think the music I do is real, it just happens to be funny.

Right now I'm listening to a lot of Top 40 music, because THAT'S MY JOB.

I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.

I started making music because I could.

Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body.

We should get into the habit of reading inspirational books, looking at inspirational pictures, hearing inspirational music, associating with inspirational friends.

We're not a band because we're trying to be the Mother Teresas of the music industry, out to serve everybody. We're a band first and foremost because we love playing pop music.

Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.

Here, in the US, people like our music because it's very similar to blues. It's the same thing in Europe. Everyone listens to blues and rock, it's universal. Everyone dances.

The music that I write is often not necessarily full of doom and gloom. You'll notice in most of the darkest songs, the music is actually pretty peaceful and lulling.

I always listen to music before I go out to bat. Any track, really, just whatever I feel like at the time.

If you don't trust the roots of the modern music in Africa, then there's hope for that music at all.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

I only want to make music because I have a passion for it.

I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.

Paste is a great music lover's resource. I tend to agree with their album reviews and find their interviews a bit more intriguing than those of other music magazines.

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

I think that music is a very, very powerful thing, especially when you have a movement like this [CBGB club] to shed new light on music and the power of it.

I never listen to music when I write.

People seem to think that folk music is people with acoustic guitars. Or punk music is people with mohawks, leather jackets.

Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind.

I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes me dream, it strengthens my creativity.

If I hear a record once, I usually never listen to it again. I rarely listen to music - unless it's Billie Holiday.

And I like music, too, I like playing music.

I feel I have to play a role in the transformation of my thoughts. Music is the most powerful way for me to do that, through my own music, through listening to other people's music.

When I play my own music, or when I play new music, there's much more stress and intensity of thinking about how I'm going to make it work!

My family owns a music store in Claremont, California, called The Claremont Folk Music Center.

If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man.

I'm very interested in music and where these sounds of Western music come from.

[My music] is opposite to fashion.