Music Quotes
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I was raised in a very humble environment, and I was always taught to be humble to the things that are happening in my life because they're blessings. They're blessings in every way. Whether you're able to help someone get through a tough time in their life through your music or through comedy, or whatever it is, you're just a channel.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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The leaf that spreads in the sunlight is the only holiness there is. I haven’t found holiness in the faiths of mortals, nor in their music, nor in their dreams: it’s out in the open field, with the green rows looking at the sky. I don’t know what it is, this holiness: but it’s there, and it looks at the sky.
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When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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A lot of bad music sells a million copies; I don't think it's a good litmus test for whether things are going well.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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Pop music will never be low brow.
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I think the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, first of all, has got to be put into the context of being an American cultural showcase. It's there to be a museum showcase of all that's great about American music.
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If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.
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Music is therapy. Music moves people. It connects people in ways that no other medium can. It pulls heart strings. It acts as medicine.
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When I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow.
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My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
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Music is about the performance.
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My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air.
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If everyone loves you for the person you are, let alone your music is incredible, I think that's a really great place to be.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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The music I write is very melodic, very catchy, and fast.
