Music Quotes
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I have a memory of listening to Tracy Chapman and just being intrigued by her voice. Even as a young girl, I wanted to know more about her and her story. I felt I was learning about her through her music. That was a revelation to me.
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If people go into music with the idea of competing with other artists, then they're doing it for all the wrong reasons.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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We never think about how many awards we've won. We just want to make the best music we can.
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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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Music became my refuge and then my salvation.
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I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!
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In pop music, people take a stand. When you look at a Beyonce or a Kendrick Lamar, they are going to tell you what they think. And audiences totally get it. They totally love it, and they are totally hungry for it. But in our conservatory training, I think it's a little lacking.
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Studying music in a conservatory would be stifling for me, although I respect people who can do it. And by no means am I an expert at notating music or music theory - that's not really my world.
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I think music is another language.
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I always loved Alan Menken songs and wanted my first album to be a tribute to him and his work. I always loved his music.
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I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That's how I started with doo-wop. Now I've come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.
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To me, it's like the difference between a pen and a paintbrush. Music draws from almost the identical place as art does, which really is that intangible - it's like you're pulling from the ether. I don't know where it comes from. Nobody really does. It sort of arrives when it wants to.
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I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
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Life is too short to play bad music.
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Pop music should be about young people.
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It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music.
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There's always been an incredible amount of junk music, and junk everything. Marshall McLuhan said that a medium surrounds a previous medium, and turns the previous medium into an art form. So, what was once a junk culture, like film, television surrounded it and turned it into an art form.
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I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker.
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Truth of the matter is, jazz is American music. And that doesn't mean bebop. Jazz is really about improvising. All the music that's been created in America has been pretty much improvised... Whether it's hillbilly or rock n' roll for blues, it's basically jazz music... It's basically about another way of hearing what comes out of America.
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Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.
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In rap, as in most popular lyrics, a very low standard is set for rhyme; but this was not always the case with popular music.
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I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!
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It's like Liverpool. Everybody went for the music. All the young musicians seemed to gravitate to Asbury Park.
