Music Quotes
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I love Shakira - she is such a beautiful person. She does so many good things for the world on top of making good music. And she is an awesome mom. When you are Latina, it is all about family, and to see that she prioritizes family and her career at the same time is really nice.
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I had been playing since I was 2 years old, never remembering a life without music, always playing everything naturally and mostly by ear, and all the grownups wanted were more scales and drudgery out of me.
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The business aspect is one of the most important things about having a music career, because every choice you make in a management meeting affects your life a year-and-a-half from now.
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The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
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I have quite an eclectic taste in music. I like Angus & Julia Stone; they are an Australian brother/sister duo. I like Adele. She is phenomenal.
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I do realize that I have a talent for making music. It wasn't anything expected, but I do think it's deserved, if that makes sense.
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My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.
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But in the next world I shan't be doing music, with all the striving and disappointments. I shall be being it.
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I really did enjoy my time at Apple - it's a great company, and I really loved building Apple Music.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
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Music is my hustle.
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I felt that a cappella was the improv world with music, where it's very serious, and there are groups and competition, and some people become famous, and there's a language we speak from one improviser to another.
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I'm astounded by people who can listen to music when they write. I can only assume that they have multi-track brains, while mine is decidedly single.
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What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
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My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
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I make music because I like making music.
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My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album.
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I see the value in every kind of music, even country.
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Composing music is hard work.
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I think, back in the day, when I was first starting to make music, all I wanted to do was to get a record deal.
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Every artist has a moment where they think about quitting music for a moment because it's scary.
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I would like to do a music person's story, a bio. I've wanted to do Aaliyah forever. But I don't want it to always be like, 'I'm singing again in a movie.'
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For me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that's what art is.
