Music Quotes
I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.
Jazz of the sort we play is a happy, extroverted music. You don't have to think about it too much.
It doesn't matter how good you are as a band or how good your music may be; if the fans aren't supporting it and buying your music, it's hard to make it.
Music has a way of filling in the missing places. It is a gift from God above, who didn't have to provide it, but He did anyway and I half think He decided life just wouldn't be as good without it.
"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock
I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.
I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?
Music is a very personal thing, so if you hear one type of song that you don't like, you pass judgment on whole band's repertoire.
Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.
Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
I listen to all sorts of things. I get kind of embarrassed with my iPod, because I am a top-40 type of girl; I am not the kind of person to introduce people to new music.
I really don't want to become a "member" of a band anymore. I really enjoy having total control over my music and productions.
I studied ethnomusicology for a while, but I don't think that really influenced my music.
I get paid to lie to people as an actor. Country music is the one area that I don't lie. I tell the truth.
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
I'm very eclectic in what I like and what I listen to. But my favorite musical ever is "The Sound of Music." That was actually one that inspired me to sing.
Independence was a big, big thing for me. I saw my voice as a way out - when my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape.
I think that the best way you can get honesty across in your music to connect and relate to people is to be motivated by personal emotions, stories and feelings.
Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.
When my parents fought, I'd run up to my room, put on The Sound of Music, open the window and sing out. My voice was my escape. I saw it as a way out.
It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.
Now we're in an age of singles. It's actually always been more about singles for most of music history.
Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.
Technology, publicity and sexuality have their place in music, but they are all subordinate to the pleasures and power of true vocal talent.
I really said, 'Okay, this is just the right job for me. This is really what I need to be doing: telling stories through music in lots of different styles of music.'
I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.
A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.
Geniuses are at work in the rock music field, and great popularity is no proof you aren't good.
You just plant a few seeds, cultivate the shoots, and watch your career grow and branch out. It takes time and dedication. There are no overnight success stories in the music business!
I'm just trying to survive and stay relevant! That's all anyone in the music business can ask for.
I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.
