Music Quotes

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything.

I love putting the music together. It's like art

I solidify his [ Riccardo Tisci] vision and what he is trying to manifest, make it a crystal or solid thing because of the relationship I have with my culture and what my music means to him.

In music, it makes for a good platform to take time and really mold a piece the way I need to mold it. When it comes to fashion, I create a functional art that moves.

I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.

I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music.

What a frequency What a voice. I love Bilal. I couldn't imagine a music world without his voice.

If you think of the history, in the days of Brahms and Beethoven and all these guys, almost every concert was a new music concert. To play something old was really an exception.

Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect.

The music I turn out these days is the kind of music I want to hear myself.

Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.

The sort of commercial parameters of classical music changed after the [World War II] , and the whole industry became more backward-looking.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

I always tell people I write songs, but I'm a writer. It's a difference. I can write songs to music, but I can write a story. I can see ideas spark in me.

I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.

When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.

And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.

Set designers, costume designers, actors, writers, music, that's what is beautiful.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

Country music has the great stories.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

I'll always be making music. I'd like to do it my whole life - although I also love words and want to write short stories. But right now, my songs are kind of my short stories.

If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances.

If you were around in the '60s, you already know that music and art and love are a critical part of the revolution. This is how we fight.

The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

I was born in '71, so I remember bits of glam rock on 'Top of the Pops' toward the late '70s, but I had no idea what kind of world it was. I didn't like the music, either.

I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.

Music of today is not even in the same building as music from the '70s.

I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.

There is some music that's truly dark, in that it's dark in terms of hopeless. But then again, the act of hope is just making the work of art.

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

I have a vision of artists putting into film, drama, literature, music, and paintings great themes and great characters from the Book of Mormon.

I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.

the one universal form of art is music.

My goal as an artist is to always be true to who I am and give my fans music they will enjoy for a lifetime

I didn't realize that everyone was so attracted to my hair. I thought, well what about my music?

I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my music to be encouraging, to help people.

I guess people would categorize hipster rap just by how people look, skinny jeans and fashion rap. I was never that. In my music I never put the emphasis on clothes.

As a director, you can transform your vision more with the music.

With music, I wasn't curious anymore. There was no dialogue. By the time I stopped, I knew it wasn't going to be gone forever, but it just wasn't the right time for me to care about that.

Musically, I didn't relate to Berlin. There seemed to be a lot of machine music made there - I don't think I saw a stringed instrument in two years.

And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.