Music Quotes
The Internet was a saving grace for promoting and exposing, and even creating. It's a parallel world to the music industry that already exists, and I'm glad to be a part of it.
The biggest thing that has happened to hip-hop is the clinging on to the corporation as the all-mighty hub of the music.
Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions...nothing.
Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like no kinds of music.
I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.
Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them.
Creating records and writing music with people I admire and respect is a very spiritual and enlightening thing for me.
Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.
I cursed myself not only for forgetting to turn my phone off but for ever thinking that having a rock music ringtone was cool.
My parents listened to music in our house all the time when we were growing up. It was everything from Dolly Parton to Paul Simon... We packed in everything.
Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.
These facts make the creator of music a being like the gods, and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge.
The people who do the scoring and the music for movies are very talented, really special people.
I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know.
I think if you write music for soundtracks then sometimes you do something that you could never do if the film did not exist.
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
The more I come to understand music, the more I feel like a numbskull because there is always more to learn.
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
I think there is quite a continuity over my 25 years of doing music, and I'm always trying to break away from it.
I like directors that give their composer a juicy role in their films. Some films have a small, minor role for music, some have a larger role.
But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert.
When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.
With people increasingly faced with turmoil, uncertainty and crisis, I wanted to create music that uplifts the listener and offers a sense of hope to prevail.
My mother knew how to read music and everything. But I just kinda learned off of records. And so, I was listening to records and I'd play 'em over and over.
I would say, from an all-around point of view, Bruce Springsteen is one of the two great poet lords of America, Bob Dylan, coming out of the music world, the two of them.
Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.
I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
I want my music to be able to tell a story about what I've experienced and what I think my fans will be able to understand also.
I didn't want to call and schedule shows or call and make people listen to my music. Luckily, my friends and family really stayed on me and made me put myself out there.
My Dublin wasn't the Dublin of sing-songs, traditional music, sense of history and place and community.
That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.
Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
I spent a lot of time in Tower Records. I'm a huge music nerd, and Tower was instrumental to me when I was growing up.
I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
Music has been already devalued by the consumer. There's an expectation that it should be free so the race to the bottom has already been won.
I have a conflicted relationship with musicals, because I think the music itself can be so horrendous. It's an industry that relies on appealing to a mainstream culture in order to survive.
