Music Quotes

The effect of music on fashion has been immense, especially hip-hop and urban music.

The Weeknd
- Music
- Fashion
I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.

Donald Miller
- Night
- Eyes
- Jazz

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

Ikue Mori
- Great
- Different
- Trying
I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.

Alice Smith
- Good
- Real
- True
In different hours, a man represents each of several of his ancestors, as if there were seven or eight of us rolled up in each man's skin, - seven or eight ancestors at least, - and they constitute the variety of notes for that new piece of music which his life is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Life
- Up
- Different
... Nashville is such a fantastic city, with this great creative music energy. Then there's that Southern hospitality, you can't beat that.

Sam Palladio
Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.

Ken Burns
- Music
- Important
- American
My question about my art and my music has always been, 'Am I good, or am I good because?' I'm not the artist who wants to have the 'because' attached.

Keinan Abdi Warsame
- Good
- Art
- Question