Music Quotes

You know, I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date.

I always like to serve the people some good soul music, and Christmas was just the cherry on top.

When I think about singing, and music, I think about how the people who live on the East Tennessee side have more of a curve or yodel to their voices, and then you think about the curve of mountains.

I think it's funny how people get confused when they think about church music, because a lot of times there is a soloist who stands out, but my church wasn't like that at all.

As a woman especially I've found a lot of freedom in music.

My challenges have not been around music. My hardest thing in music was just sitting down and teaching myself how to play and believing in myself.

When I talk about music in Memphis, it's a place you can go if you are a beginning artist or anywhere in your career, and you can incubate.

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

What I like is natural music. It's like I was born with a gift to do something naturally, which I have no choice but to followup on.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

Longfellow is to poetry what the barrel-organ is to music.

I tell people I'm big in the music business like a barnacle is big in shipping.

The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.

I started working in music very young, I was raised by a family of musicians and performers, so I guess it was more second nature than making an actual decision.

I feel like I know a lot of music stuff that most people my age don't know, because people that were slightly older were into it.

I relate to all of my songs and I'm inspired by everything going on around me. Music comes from all different aspects of my life.

Dancing was a big part of my life, but I would never consider myself a dancer. I adore singing, and music has always been a huge part of my life, but I also enjoy acting.

In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.

Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.

And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.

Music is about the performance.

As a songwriter and musician, it strikes me that in music, a certain territorial nature when it comes to one's own autonomy around life and art is common and understood.

My main thing is music; it's what I do.

If I like the music then at least some others will too, and that is all that matters in this context.

I don't make music for any other reason than me enjoying music, and I am also glad that I am able to make a living of this.

Yeah I live of my music. Why does everyone ask me that? Is my music that absurd that nobody could possibly be buying it?

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

We can no more enjoy life by hoping for a future result than we can enjoy music by waiting for the final note.

When I was a kid, I didn't collect stamps, or weird toys, or anything. I don't even have music - I don't even have a CD collection. So that's not really my thing.

It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

I've never been in the music industry, only acting.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.

Both music and acting are huge parts of my life - it's all about balance.

I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone.

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

I don't think there's any pop music directed at the peculiar class of anger that I know women of my age feel.

I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.

This is the last sentence of my dissertation: "What is soul in music if not powerfully embodied human presence?"

I make a lot of music with other desis - that's hugely important to me, but it can't be the sum total of who I am and what I do. It's not accurate; it doesn't reflect my life experience.

My music is always called "cerebral." It is a way of saying I'm Asian, and therefore everything I do is brainy.

Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

Through music you learn not to care about the color of someone's skin.

I don't really have a focus, I just make music.

Music was never really something I wanted to do, so I never thought about it as a kid.

I think too many people look at the arts with a religious outlook. Arts, music, singing and performing, it's all make-believe.