EMA (Erika M. Anderson) Quotes
I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.
EMA
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. Ward
When I'm doing just music all the time, it can get really overwhelming. It's always challenging to switch it up a bit. And just because you're a musician, it doesn't mean that music is your only creative outlet.
Bat for Lashes
But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
Waylon Jennings
Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
Katey Sagal
My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush
Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.
Ziggy Marley
My dad was a huge big band and jazz fan, and we both sort of enjoyed be-bop, but man, it required so much skill to play it. And then there was cool jazz, the era that Miles, Coltrane, and Ornette ushered in, and that found a home in me. It turns out that that music was just really where I breathed.
J. D. Souther
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
F. Sionil Jose
Taxi drivers used to ask me what kind of music I did, and I'd say, 'Well, it's kind of jazz, soul, classical' - but that makes no sense to anyone.
Laura Mvula
There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I'm not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.
Gad Elmaleh
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
Illinois Jacquet
I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing.
Obie Trice
Music is like the genius of humankind, universal... People who have never really taken the time to get into music, their lives are a lot smaller. Kids deserve the richness and dimension of it in their lives.
Flea
Jane's Addiction
We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.
Edie Falco
What I loved about country music when I was a kid was the Grand Ole Opry, was 'Hee Haw,' was 360 degrees of entertainment.
Laura Bell Bundy
Music helps me immeasurably in the writing process.
Irvine Welsh
Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
Daniel Barenboim
I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.
Vanilla Ice
People like Aphex Twin, Jason Pierce, Jarvis Cocker and William Orbit are actively showing their interest in a wider field of music. Jarvis and I met on a benefit for an extraordinary man called LaMonte Young, the father of minimalism, who worked with John Cale and shared a loft with Yoko Ono.
Charles Hazlewood
The sound world that I created for 'Avatar' had to be very different, really, than anything I ever created before. There is also three hours of music.
James Horner
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea.
Karl Kraus
Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Pindar
I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.
EMA
