Music Quotes
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When I was three years old, I went to an orphanage, but because of the beatings, I ran away when I was five and lived alone by selling gum on the streets. For ten years, I lived like a fly. I was eventually able to graduate elementary and middle school through qualification examinations and the first thing that I ever liked was music.
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I would do the occasional score. I thought it was the most thrilling thing. It was instant. You made the music and they played it right away to millions of people. I found it thrilling.
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I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music.
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I can't just sit down and make a song in a day. It's only possible if you focus on the music and not the sound.
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Originality is definitely missing from EDM. There are people looking for it and exploring but I feel it's so big now it is just getting milked. House music is losing all its melody as it becomes more about how dirty the drop is and how energetic it is. It loses touch with what music really is.
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Writing music is just like writing a book.
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I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.
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Both of my parents are actually music teachers.
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The business has changed so much that they're able - we're able these days in the music industry to be able to control our own destiny.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.
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I guess when I first started writing music, I really had no idea if anyone was ever going to hear what I was writing and almost no intention of people hearing it. So, it was kind of this journal. It was pretty unfiltered.
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I want to make my music a genre that people can immediately identify: something that never existed.
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I was a 'Glee' fan before I joined the show! Since my background is musical theater, it was exciting to see a TV show that incorporated music so much and in such a genius way.
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Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor.
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I actually only started listening to house music around the time I started making it. I got hooked both to making music and to house music.
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My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.
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I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.
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As far as music, Louis Armstrong is one of my heroes.
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My parents loved music, and my father would come home with cassette tapes of Chic and the Village People and Barbra Streisand. We had all these sounds always going. We never had somber music - always upbeat.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I'm not interested in disposable music.
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In our house we repeated the pattern of thousands of other homes. There were a few books and a lot of music. Our food and our furniture were no different from our neighbors'.
