Music Quotes
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When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.
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But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
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My playing music is strictly for fun. When I was in a band, I was really excited to talk about it since I had never really played music to that extent. It was never meant as something I would consider as anything more than having fun with my friends. But I think I would enjoy writing music for the movies that I'm working on.
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I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music.
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Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system.
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You know, if you look all my stuff... If you go back to 'Saturday Night Live,' my stuff always has music, even a bunch of my comedy stuff - like in 'Shrek,' the donkey is always singing. Music is always there.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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When you return to the same area a few times, you get that frequent rapport with the public and the fans of the music along with having a certain warmth when you walk onstage.
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When people say to me 'what do you think of rap music?' my answer is there's no such thing. There's rap and there's music.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.
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Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
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Once I got into the music, I realized that I had a passion for it that far outweighed what it was for baseball.
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I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Music has to change. I don't want to stay the same forever.
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Art makes us human, music makes us human, and I deeply feel that science makes us human.
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The kids that are making the ghetto stuff I can't even reach are the ones that are inspiring me to play music for the other kids in the city they don't even know about. If I don't get those kids making music, there won't be an original kid DJing like me in five to 10 years.
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Where words fail, music speaks.
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I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.
