Music Quotes
I think, once recipes become digital, pirating a digital recipe and all the questions that you have with music and so forth will become pertinent to food as well.
I would like my album to be on the pop side with a little bit of soul. I would like to make music that is on the top of the charts right now.
I've finally tapped into that spirit of self-destruction that makes rock-n-roll the king of music!
I am very lucky to have people who care about me and care about my music. I think it would be irresponsible to not show them as much love back as they show me.
I'm only concerned with making music that I love and that my fans will respond to. I am happy to see other really good young artists able to flourish and pursue their careers.
All singers have this fault: if asked to sing among friends they are never so inclined; if unasked, they never leave off.
I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs.
You can call it the 'Perfect Moment' when the universe aligns and the music in your head actually matches the music outside and all is well.
Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel.
"You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm."
There's always music sitting around, but when you're cultivating music, the idea of getting into a studio and compressing it to get something out on time can be really good.
I had a great conversation with Trent Reznor. Trent said, "I'd have a sixpack, too, if I didn't write my own music!"
The thing we look for everywhere is, you know, music that resonates with us. This is what moves me. And hopefully my music will move someone else.
I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.
In the 90s, there was a yahoo factor where there would be 50 people crowd surfing at one time! It was insane, and it had nothing to do with the music.
The music I listened to as a kid - the Stones, the Beatles - that was so rebellious at the time, it became mainstream.
I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.
If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music.
The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind.
People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen.
I still enjoy doing music. I'm not going to stop doing it, and doing it the way that I feel it should be done.
My father died early. My mother died early. I started hanging with the gangs. I'm on the streets; I'm committing crimes. And the music came along, and this music just took me on a different road.
Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
The people who were learning from me tended to be more commercial performers who were gonna rip off the salient idea to do it in a way that will sell, but they weren't going for the music.
I am inclined to believe that some music, like certain poetry, finds its appeal and way to all.
If an artist tells you "this is an oak tree," then it better be an oak tree. It's how you proclaim things; if you say "the silence is the music," then it's the music.
Musical talent is maybe something, but there are no unmusical people. You're moved by music. It's total rubbish to say, "Oh, I'm unmusical." It doesn't exist; it's ridiculous.
I think after music is performance because it is also an immaterial form of art, and then there's everything else.
I always talk about the hierarchy of art, and I always put music on the top of everything, because it's so immaterial.
The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.
They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.
It's in my music, and its on my mind all the time. To spread love, healing peace and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up.