Carlo Wolff Quotes

It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Music
  • Lead
  • Him

• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Music
  • Society

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best

• If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Work
  • Music
  • Happy

• No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Music
  • Want
  • Me

• The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Beautiful
  • Feelings

• I definitely have plans to do more collaboration albums in the future. I'm a big fan of Common. I'm a big fan of Scarface; I'm a big fan of so many people, from Jeezy to... well, there are a lot of people's music that I respect. I don't know who I will collaborate with, but there's a great chance of something happening.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• As a rapper, you sort of act in music videos and in the persona you adopt onstage. You kinda have to put yourself out there and be courageous even to be a rapper. So, to step into acting was not that difficult a transition to make.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Music
  • Yourself
  • Step

• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Happy

• My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• I like that I don't have to conform to the normal women-in-music-selling-sex-appeal thing.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Women
  • Like

• I am so blessed that all I've done in my professional life, since I was 17-18, is play music and somehow make a dollar here and there.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Life
  • Music
  • Done

• Formally, I did my studies in the sciences, but I was very conscious that I was being deprived of culture. While studying neuroscience, I was running a rock-music festival and was able to use that as a platform to explore what it takes to produce art for 20,000 inebriated 20-somethings.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Music
  • Art
  • Culture

• You're not supposed to say the word 'cancer' in a song.And tellin' folks Jesus is the answer can rub 'em wrong.It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns, and mama, yeah that might be true.But this is country music and we do.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • Music
  • Country
  • True

• You get so close to your own music that you can't see the beauty in it. I had to learn to let go. It's good to be less precious.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Good
  • Music

• I think if you play music and you join a scene you're already too late.

  

  Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
  • Music
  • Scene
  • Join

• We think wireless is going to grow tremendously. Do I think people are going to watch an episode of 'Survivor' on a 2-inch television set? I doubt it. But I do think somebody's going to go to a grocery store in the middle of a football game and watch that game.

  

  Leslie Moonves
  • People
  • Game
  • Football

• I've been in, like, kids' clubs... I've been in the Boom Boom Room in New York, and the kids are going, 'Oh my God, you produced 'Arrested Development?'' They aren't talking about 'A Beautiful Mind' or '24.' It's like the only thing in my whole career was 'Arrested Development,' literally.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • God
  • Mind
  • Kids

• It’s hard to pin down what makes Weiss’ music so distinctive. Perhaps it’s that even in the ballads, the tone is upbeat, the outlook positive. The way Weiss writes - passionately, wittily and with respect for his fellow musicians - attests to his talent and appetite for creativity, and suggests a long, enjoyable career.

  

  Carlo Wolff
  • Music
  • Talent
  • Writes