Steve Reich Quotes

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

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• Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Good
  • Music
  • Important

• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  

  Nancy Allen
  • Music
  • School
  • Career

• I started acting almost on a whim to help my music career.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Music
  • Help
  • Career

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Music
  • History
  • Bridges

• Artistic development made me who I am. Somebody took the time to help me find what it is that works for me as an entertainer and who I am as a music maker.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Development
  • Artistic

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Music is what our feelings sound like.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Music
  • Feelings
  • Sound

• Music my rampart, and my only one.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Music
  • Only
  • Rampart

• I've always been one for show business. I like performing, and I used to get criticized for having production value. But now it's all that! People need to get what they pay for! Otherwise, just listen to recorded music.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • Music
  • Business

• As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Time
  • Music
  • Woman

• I do put a lot of God in my music, but not because I'm super religious. There are a lot of demons in my music, too. I acknowledge both.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • God
  • Religious

• I don't know if I'll ever make rap music, but I just like people who are like, 'I am going to just find the medium that's best for this idea and master it and do that.'

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Music
  • Idea
  • Rap

• While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Thinking

• I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Listen

• Selling a film option and getting a studio on board can be a slow process, and until things are official, you never want to spill the beans.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Want
  • Process
  • Option

• The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

  

  Lydia Lunch
  • Music
  • Words

• I've got guys in my band that have been there for about 35 years. They're great players, and we still enjoy doing the music.

  

  Lynn Anderson
  • Great
  • Music
  • Band

• Eighty per cent of my time is spent on paperwork, hiring musicians, putting bands together, setting up concerts, and 20 per cent is spent on the music. That's the part that you really enjoy, but you can't afford to spend 80 per cent on your music; otherwise, it's not going to happen.

  

  Colm Wilkinson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I think, initially, working on your own is really great because it allows you to just be really free and not worry about how things are perceived or if people are going to think you're an idiot. And once that becomes ingrained, at least for me, I think I'll feel really comfortable to work with other people and still feel that same freedom.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If I'm writing and a chapter isn't coming, I just move ahead.

  

  James Patterson
  • Writing

• When something isn't done, you want to do something about it.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Done

• In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing.

  

  Steve Reich
  • Music
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