Music Quotes
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I really love to play 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven. I can still read music, but I need to practise more. The way your fingers move - it's something that comes from memory. I love music.
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It's weird: making a movie is like life compacted into three months. You have these very intense relationships with people, and you talk to them every day - your editor, the casting people, music people, your actors - then it ends. It's like a circus life.
Dito Montiel
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Broadway musicals, where you sing the whole time, I really don't like; I like alternating dialogue and music.
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The fact of the matter is, if music is something that you want to do, you need to stick with it with the idea that you're going to do it until it works.
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I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.
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My thing is music, period.
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Whatever I do with music, I try to make it align deeply with the values and principles of who I am and what I believe the purpose of my life is.
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I always knew I was going to do something with music, but with my whole family being in the business, acting was something that was just mine. But when I was 20 or 21, I started writing songs and felt the itch to make a record.
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I've matured as a person and so has the music... It's gotten more sophisticated and interesting I think.
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Music critics think of lyrics first and don't consider melody but so many songs are lyrically depressing but musically great, and that's why they become classics.
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My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
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When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.
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If music is to continue to support the livelihoods of artists, it cannot be taken without the permission of artists.
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I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.
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I'm desperate to start a career in music.
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I just try to be as honest and open as possible with all my music, whether it's live shows or the studio.
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I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'
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I like writing a body of music that has a cohesive, emotional thread through it.
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I'm 44 now; I feel better than I did when I was 34. I've got more clarity now. I wake up in the morning, and I write my blog, and then I go upstairs, and I work on music. And I do that every day. That's what I do. I don't check in once a week and think, "Oh, I've gotta come up with something now." I'm always writing. I was just in a coffee shop in Chelsea last night, just killing time, waiting for a friend, and I sat and wrote enough for three good songs. I love it. This is my life. It's all I do.
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I love what I do and the music I make and the bands I've done, especially Fall Out Boy. I also love what I love, and I don't care if other people like it.
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It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.
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The goal as a musician, I think, is to be able to make music as a living for the rest of your life.
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The point is that, like Richard Hell says, rock 'n' roll is an arena in which you recreate yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just a bunch of crap. The Clash are authentic because their music carries such brutal conviction, not because they're Noble Savages.
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We did a lot of fight scenes in 'Hitman: Agent 47,' so you have to learn repetitious movements to music; otherwise, it's amazingly boring. Michael Jackson was our savior.
