Music Quotes
You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.
If I would not be able to create music, I would create art or something else. Perhaps cooking.
The best part about DJing a fashion show after-party or event is being able to correlate the emotions of the collection with music, just as you would for a show.
Music is such an important element in creating the drama that a runway show needs in order to be memorable and to make the clothes come to life.
I'm at a point where I let my mind go with flow of the music I'm making and it's not interrupted by me trying to please everybody.
We need to welcome the experimental creativity that is always searching out new ways of singing the Gospel, and banish the fear that grips us when familiar music passes away.
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.
The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.
I think I was annoyed going through the '90s just as a guy who loves music. There wasn't a lot of music for me. Everything was groove driven. We lost the plot with the melody. There's no more melody.
Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.
Growing up, there was only classical music on BBC Radio. We had to listen to the American Forces Network in Germany, which played pop songs, or the pirate radio boats off the coast.
I studied voice at Yale with Blake Stern from the music school, and he had me singing German lieder and Italian songs.
For music, I always just played music myself - and, I had rock bands and wrote songs and put bands together that were loud, but not especially good. That was sort of the place music had in my career.
Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.
As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.
If true computer music were ever written, it would only be listened to by other computers.
Michael Jackson fundamentally altered the terms of the debate about African American music.
When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley; you mostly hear dance hall music.
I really wanted to get to the animal core of rock music and eliminate anything that wasn't necessary.
I never wrote poetry, just prose. I don't really consider songwriting a form of poetry either. The words are important, of course, but they're dependent on the music.
The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.
It's hard to make a living in music, so a lot of times in the arts it's safer to kind of fit into a box.
The whole idea of worship being associated with music, it gives you an impotence to make art that is true, that is honest and that opens the human heart to God and to reality.
I do think that Christians will make music that oh should have some of the grandest visions of why we should create music and why we should seek to create beauty world.
Not just in Christian music but also in a lot of Christian culture there is a lot of pretending that everyone is perfect, nobody is really going through much.
Part of what makes music so interesting is the lack of consensus on just about any given topic.
My own goals center around writing the best music that I can, and only I can determine whether or not I've succeeded in accomplishing that.
As a young composer I had a particular fondness for Liszt's Beethoven Symphony arrangements for the piano, and to this day I enjoy playing non-piano music at the piano.
I think I skipped a lot of music, like when I was 17 or 18. I didnt know about a lot of new bands because I was so immersed in older music.
It's quite hard not to cringe at your own music; you're always a bit annoyed at some parts of it.
I love making music so its important for me to keep doing that even if the schedule is busy.
In Nashville, there is a historic tendency to work the lyric to death while settling for music that works. In pop or rock, it can be the other way around.
For a long time, I resisted seeing The Sound of Music, but when I finally did, I cried.
I'm sure there are people who think I only do music, people who think I only do theater, and people who think I only do dramatic stuff. I do things that interest me.
I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music.
I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."
For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.
In fact, a lot of critics seemed to consider R.E.M. the first American music since the '60s to break out on its own and develop a stand-alone sound.
