Music Quotes
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I was playing hip-hop when everybody else was playing the giant rave music.
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If you scroll through all the movies I've worked on, you can understand how I was a specialist in westerns, love stories, political movies, action thrillers, horror movies, and so on. So in other words, I'm no specialist, because I've done everything. I'm a specialist in music.
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When I was a kid, I was more interested in beating up boys on the playground than practicing music.
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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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Music is my friend, it comforts me in joy and in sorrow.
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I had always loved music. I grew up listening to classic country, Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard. My dad loved Vern Gosdin and Keith Whitley. So I kept going to class and started getting totally into playing guitar and teaching myself these songs.
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Like with me, like around '97, for Christmas my parents bought me an MPC 2000 sampler and a little eight-track cassette recorder. And I started sampling records and, you know, producing hip-hop beats. And it got to the point where I realized - I innately realized that the music I liked the most was made by people that played instruments.
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Alice Walker's words have such rhythm and scream music.
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I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative.
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Music is careful attention paid to ongoing experience.
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There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.
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Road trips to me are just such an escape. You listen to your music, and you roll the windows down. You're usually going to somewhere fun.
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You don't put out music unless you have a sense that people will maybe like what you're doing or you're standing for something artistically.
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When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them.
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I don't like listening to my music, not even new pieces. Generally, they sound pretty much like I expected them to sound, so it's what I wanted, and that's it.
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I'm naturally sort of a sad person, and that comes out in my music, but when I realized how many people were listening to it... I wanted to be a little more conscious about what I was putting out and what people were going to be taking from it.
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Music directly imitates the passions or states of the soul...when one listens to music that imitates a certain passion, he becomes imbued withthe same passion; and if over a long time he habitually listens to music that rouses ignoble passions, his whole character will be shaped to an ignoble form.
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We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
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I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.
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I always thought I was singing American folk music.
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I had this exceptional classical music voice. If I'd followed a true path for my talent, I would have ended up being an opera singer.
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The drum is surely the lord of music, is it not?
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For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.
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I hope I'm not sort of blowing our own trumpet, but I think Thom is probably the finest lyricist in the UK of his generation at the moment and hes always trying to progress, as we as musicians try to do ourselves. Theres this nice relationship between the lyrics and the music.
