Confucius Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I love Johnny Cash but I don't love country music that much.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I liked that music was a window into a world with a lot of unpredictability and chaos; it was almost diametrically opposed to my very regimented day-to-day living.
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I was influenced when I was younger by the cartoon movies that Disney put out, like Cinderella and what not. I watched those movies over and over when I was younger and the music is ingrained into my head. Nowadays, I'm still humming the tunes. It taught me the fundamentals.
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I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they will buy poetry.
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There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.
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I don't think I'll ever want to do pop music. I think I'll only ever want to do classical crossover because it's something that I love, and pop just doesn't work for me.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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Japan has really great fans for all kinds of music. I think they're keeping metal alive.
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My music has a high irritation factor. I've always tried to say something. Eccentric lyrics about eccentric people. Often it was a joke. But I would plead guilty on the grounds that I prefer eccentricity to the bland.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.
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Freedom of Speech is Freedom of Music.
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Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
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I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I like looking like I came out of a fairy tale.
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I'm not a cribber, or someone who criticises. People who criticise are not doers. I'm a doer.
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Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.
