Music Quotes
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In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
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Right out of school, I did this show called 'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812.' It is based on a classical text with new music - not necessarily confined by a certain genre. It was a diverse, interesting group of musicians, actors, nonactors, and singers all creating this thing that is bigger than all of us.
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When we started Aventura, I think a lot of - the reason why we became so successful besides, you know, doing good music, was also the fact that it was unique and different and never done.
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Maybe it's the way that I do music, but I was never in a cool indie band or hung out with all the cool arty kids when I came to London.
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I would never really listen to my own music or whatever, but I write music so I can deal with things and I hope that some people can relate in that. Maybe help people, or just bring a smile to their face or make them feel cool or something.
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I love interpreting other people's music.
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You know, every country needs another country to mock, and Australians seem to be pretty good at impersonating American people. Maybe it's because all the movies and music and TV you see there is from America, so we just have the knack for it.
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If the kids like it, my fans like it - whoever this music pertains to, if they like it, it's for them. That's what this art is for.
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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.
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In 1972, I recorded Gumbo, an album that was both a tribute to and my interpretation of the music I had grown up with in New Orleans in the 1940s and 1950s. I tried to keep a lot of the little changes that were characteristic of New Orleans, while working my own funknology on piano and guitar.
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Playing music was always a part of my life; I don't know anything else.
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I started writing music when I was around twelve. My current record company saw a video of me performing at my school's talent show.
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Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.
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But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
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I've been composing music all my life and if I'd been clever enough at school I would like to have gone to music college.
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The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone.
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I was tossed all over the place growing up, which I guess prepared me for the music business, but the one thing that has always been there, that has never ever left me, has been country music.
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I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
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The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here.
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Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.
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I love writing music.
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I took opera lessons. I can't read music to save my life, but I would just copy and get away with it. I think that they thought I could read music, but I can't. I would just listen.
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I love any opportunity I have to make music.
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I take certain steps to make sure I'm relevant artistically. I always have new music and a reason to be on the road. I'm not just playing 'Get By' over and over. I have 12 albums.
