Music Quotes
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I wasn't that bothered with school; I was too mad into horses. But I liked reading and was good enough at English and always liked music.
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I had an opportunity to play baseball in college, but I just didn't want to go to school. I started focusing on my music and it was game over!
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I became an actor by doing school plays and youth theaters, and then National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. And then I did study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. For me that was a good way to enter the field, to work in the theater.
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Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.
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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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My music relies solely on the feeling. Just the feeling.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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My parents were very relaxed about music.
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I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick.
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Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.
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When people hear music that is spiritual it gets through. Music that is Godlike and loving gets through. I don’t have any power in this world, but I have spiritual power. I think God gave me my music and my talent. I’m trying to get across a feeling of spirituality; I think I have a spiritual influence on people.
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But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.
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The music industry is such a different world from the acting world. Everything is really last minute, but I love the challenge, and I love owning my material and being able to put out what I want.
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Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen.
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To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
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The patterns of big-band music are smooth and classical. It's got to be fresh. The brass section should crackle, like the sound of eggs being dropped into hot grease.
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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Music is universal; it's healing.
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Every time I've seen Sheryl Crow perform, it's like effortless perfection. She's so relaxed onstage, but she's really locked into the music and having fun. Vocally, I've always looked up to her.
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I listen to music because that's such a huge part of my process; not to sound super pretentious, but that's a big part of what helps me get in character.
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You don't have to be in a rock band to write your own music.
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Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
