Music Quotes
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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Starting in music, where I get a chance to connect with the lyrics of a song, I learned so much about performing on stage and connecting to your audience and to what you're singing about. Singing is very emotional. Every song has its own purpose.
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I grew up with parents who really encouraged me to listen to as much music as I could.
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I feel blessed and humbled that people have loved my music. Nothing would be possible without their acceptance.
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My passion is more specific, in the sense that I've always liked doing comedy. I've always liked doing music. I like acting. And apparently, you need those things in movies.
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Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.
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I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
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I was the kid jamming out to the songs on the radio, and now there's hopefully kids out there jamming out to my music.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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The seeds of Illumination's origin sprang from an idea lead singer Philip Bailey had of collaborating with new generation of soul artists for his next solo album. The idea of illumination is vibrant and positive. Earth Wind Fire collaborating with the new soul movement made sense because the thrust of their music is still about playing instruments and utilizing vintage sounds, only in today's setting.
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These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I just want to keep making music and see where everything goes.
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I found that when I was putting my own music out, with my Twitter feed as the pure marketing budget, I'm preaching to the choir.
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As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
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I thought I was going to be an actor. I liked entertaining. I was pretty much tap dancing for attention from a very early age. My family was kind of musical, and there were people in the circus next door and actors across the road. I just enjoyed messing around with music growing up, but I really thought I was going to be an actor.
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We support encryption. But there is no magic fix for music piracy.
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I'm not very good at a lot of things that aren't music. This is the only thing that I love doing, so, like, why wouldn't I make this my whole life?
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The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.
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I was pretty gung-ho about music and pursuing that and figuring that whole thing out, so I was wide-eyed and ready to go when I moved to Nashville. I never looked back.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't think music should be free.
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I could never be in a situation with a job where I was not allowed to listen to music all day. I would rather work at a fast food restaurant where I could turn on the radio all day rather than be in a situation where I have to sneak and listen to music.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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My mom is a gym teacher, and she's not musically inclined, but she always wanted to help me out with music as best she could.
