Music Quotes
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I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.
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I hardly ever get asked about music. I do, however, get asked about the 'Addicted to Love' video and my suits on a daily basis.
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Once the music gets in you, it doesn't leave you.
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How I set myself apart is by creating the sort of real and honest music, which is who I'm also trying to be.
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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I write songs very quickly, so the 20 minutes of joy I get out of writing a song doesn't compare to the two months of joy I get engaging with the people who like my music.
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Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.
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I think that I'm definitely going to keep writing music forever. I can't stop even if I tried.
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Music is split up now into little pockets.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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I didn't know anything about music when I started a band. I barely knew how to play a guitar. I didn't know how to produce records. I learned how to play bass guitar and keyboards in Rilo Kiley. I picked up a lot from my collaborators.
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Music was what I always wanted to do and I was one of the lucky few to achieve my ambition and earn a living from it for which I'm very grateful.
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I think listening to music from your youth is as powerful as a scent passed beneath your nose.
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Every music journalist I've ever met has been stunningly beautiful.
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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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Consolation of music is different from the one of words. It starts from the inside... It cries with you instead of telling you to stop crying.
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I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to me) and has a wonderful resource of hymns from all sorts of different parts of the Church... and to go to church and be able to sing that stuff and listen to a Bach motet or indeed some charismatic choruses.
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In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
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To my mind, there is a reason that music is there and it's about being human.
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Being a working mother is not easy, but I think it helps you choose what's important in your life. If I think about starting a new project - whether it be music, a movie or a fragrance - I always stop and think: Is this something I feel really passionate about? That way, if I'm not at home at least it's for something I really love, and my son can look up to that.
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Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
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I think I resisted it for a long time, just because I thought music can subliminally get through to people who may overtly disagree with you. It’s like a stealth way to influence people’s attitudes. I think as things have become more of an emergency, I’ve realized that that was a luxury that I don’t feel like we can afford anymore. I think we need to be just straight-out blunt about what’s happening.
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In creating music you are the writer, the director, the producer, you create it from scratch. Obviously in playing a role in a film, you take guidance and put your trust into the director. You come into it and you really trust people.
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'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.
