Music Quotes
We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.
I learned the cello , but I would still need a massive amount of practice. But I do play classical music, so I understand where that comes from.
I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
I would like to continue making music and acting in projects that give me a lot of satisfaction.
I grew up in a school that had a big music program, and it was incredible. It's what I looked forward to during the day. I had chorus, strings, band.
I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
Classical music is a special taste like Greek language or pre-Columbian archeology, not a common culture of reciprocal communication and psychological shorthand.
New Amsterdam Records, a new label run by composers, has begun documenting this hybrid music, with invigorating discs by the band itsnotyouitsme and the composers Corey Dargel and William Brittelle.
What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.
No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.
I believe the term modulation denotes in music the uninterrupted shift from one key to another: I do not know the term for change of rhythm without change of measure.
I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music.
Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
My best business decision was becoming a writer as well as a director, and learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft. My worst business decision was licensing music that I don't own.
When I was first introduced to the music of Jacques Brel, I was totally floored. I had never heard anything as intelligent or sexy or angry as his music.
I make the music that I want to make and make the show that I want to make. If you like it, you come. If you don't like it, you don't have to.
I kind of rely on my artist friends to make my physical music worth buying by having them all come together and create beautiful artwork that everyone is gonna want to own to support my record.
I think I've always felt as a band and as a musician and a music business person, I've always felt like an outsider, period.
I firmly believe in music being as free as possible. Unlocked. Shared and spread. In order for artists to survive and create, their audiences need to step up and directly support them.
Because I usually write so autobiographically, it's nice to have someone else's story or a visual and just focus on the music.
I'm always flattered and honored when people cover my music or sing my songs, no matter where it is.
People love music, they're always going to love music, it's our job to consistently push ourselves as artists to keep delivering stuff for people to stay engaged with.
I grew up working at a record store and listening to vinyl. Even if it's side A and B, there's always this continuity that really turned me on about music.
In the same way in which music is made of notes and a painting is made of lines of colors, the matter of literature are words.
I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue
Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.
To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.
ahhhh...organic and rich like good soil... makes me want to listen and hear it grow. the songs are honest and dimensional. it's music to my ears.
When I'm by myself, I never play music. I have a lot of it, for a girl, but I don't listen to it a lot. I hate picking music out, I'm not good at it.
I think music on television is just uniformly dreadful. It is mundane, it says nothing.
I know definitive points in my life and in relationships because of my songs. I write my music so that I'll never be bored of it.
Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
I've been thinking about going back to university. I need more tools to continue to apply to the music. I've got to open myself up to more language.
A lot of people think that you easily get roles because you do music. I mean, you could knock on the door faster than anybody, but it doesn't necessarily get you in.
Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.
What you see with your eyes when you're making music is going to have a profound effect on what you hear.
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
I've never approached classical music in a formal way, ever. I couldn't read very well. I'd have to play every piece and internalize it, almost as if I had written it myself.
People who are thinking about your music almost as much as you are, that almost never happens.
