Music Quotes
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I'm not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it's a good song, what does it matter?
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Music imitates the passions or states of the soul, such as gentleness, anger, courage, temperance, and their opposites.
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I don't like to define my music. To me, music is pure emotion. It's language that can communicate certain emotions and the rhythms cuts across genders, cultures and nationalities. All you need to do is close your eyes and feel those emotions.
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Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
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I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.
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Music scores your life. You interact with it. You listen to it in the car. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.
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There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
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Rock 'n' roll doesn't glorify God. You can't drink out of God's cup and the devil's cup at the same time. I was one of the pioneers of that music, one of the builders. I know what the blocks are made of because I built them.
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It really is no different in the way that we make records and shoot music videos. I don't think of the movie as being a great leap out of my current profession.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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Music journalists love Elvis Costello and hate me because they look like Elvis Costello...
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Good music will always be recognized in the end.
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There's nothing to compare to live music, there just isn't anything.
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As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.
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My music has to be funny and sad and happy and loving; it's gotta have it all. When somebody's just too dark all the time, it's just drama. Or if somebody's too funny? Well, I like being too funny sometimes.
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That's what I enjoy most about my music - that it heals in its own time and makes us look at ourselves in its own time.
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The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.
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You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
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We, as Christians, have a legacy to leave, and it's all about a love of Christ to permeate the music and reach the hearts of all of the people out there, that don't know him and do know him.
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I've always been very much in control of my music and my image, and I think one of the things I've been lucky about is I didn't bring a label on board until I really figured out who I was.
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In church, they have the music where you jump and you shout, you know, and then you have the quiet music where you're sitting, you're meditating.
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Music can't change the world.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
