Music Quotes
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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Jon Anderson and I, we really liked a lot of classical music, and we wanted to get some orchestral arrangements going on 'Time And A Word.'
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When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did.
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Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life.
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Good music is good music, regardless of where it comes from. I think that's a really important thing to carry with you.
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Rhythm and blues used to be called race music. … This music was going on for years, but nobody paid any attention to it.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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There’s obviously always danger in making music or art for art’s sake. Even as Christians we can be guilty of that, being more about the art than the Artist who gave us this gift.
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If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world.
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I would rather be on stage playing to 25 people with a band I love and the music I love than learning dance moves I don't want to do for 25,000 people.
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I listen to music cinematically. I think about music and how it would make me feel when it's put to an image, a moving image, and I love it.
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Latin music has many international influences - pop, rock, country, Brazilian sounds, and alternative styles.
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Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
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It does just boil down to music.
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I believe in music.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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It's tough as an artist to have such a specific vision for your video in mind when you write a song. Reaching out to directors is like going on blind dates and trying to find someone who sees the exact vision behind your music, which can be really difficult.
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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A scene gets cut a few frames here and there, but there's a cumulative effect to it, and then the music needs to be reworked. It's demanding, but when you see the improved cuts, it's always better.
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The music I was making for people not to dance to was the one they were dancing to.
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Whatever I do, I do for the universal. It's not like an individual thing; it's not like something from me. What I present to the people is for all of us, you know. I present music for the people.
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The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas.
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Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.
