Music Quotes
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When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.
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If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal.
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All great music is contemporary. If it's still alive and kicking, then it's contemporary. If it fades away, it was a period piece. It had its moment, and that was it.
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Rock music will never die. We all know that.
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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There was a time that I was only known for being a plagiarist. It used to hurt at times because there was so much effort I was putting into music. And instead of that, it was a couple tunes that I had reproduced from folk songs to remake as film songs, which were being written about.
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Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can’t sing. Words have to find a man’s mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men’s minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.
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I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
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The worst part of being gay in the twentieth century is all that damn disco music to which one has to listen.
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A lot of white men in the music industry are promoting and participating in black culture in a way that is pretty careless. They want the currency of blackness, but they don't want the brunt that comes along with that.
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I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation.
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When I was younger, I was listening to a lot of Armenian music, you know, revolutionary music about freedom and protest. In the 70s I was listening to soul and the Bee Gees and ABBA, and funk.
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You should get the feeling you should move. That's what is meant when people say the music moves me.
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There's a higher place that I have no illusions about reaching. There's a sophistication and aesthetic about composers who only write only for the music's sake.
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I'm proud of my roots. There are not many Asians in the music industry so it's important for me to tell people where I'm from.
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The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial; it was something very personal to me.
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I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music.
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I just wanted to be a composer; I became an actor by default, really. I got a scholarship to a college of music and drama, hoping to take a scholarship in music. But I ended up as an acting student, so I've stuck with that for the last 50-odd years.
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We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.
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Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
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The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.
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To be acknowledged outside of my city is amazing to me, because I don't really feel like I did nothing distasteful. I made the music I want to make, and people started to like it.
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You have to arrive… the way the music has to feel.
