Music Quotes
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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.
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Everyone in my family has been in music - my cousins, my grandmother, my grandfather - so it's quite a big family tree.
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I just knew I loved music, and I wanted to do something in music, but I couldn't sing, I can't dance, I am an introvert. So I was like, 'What exactly is there for me to do? What can I do?' There's all these questions, there's all these things that are telling you 'no' instead of 'yes.' Those are the things I dealt a lot with, my insecurity.
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When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.
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The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
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I started making music that I loved and was passionate and excited about, but it was really cool when I started touring to realize it's an extremely diverse group of people who come out. In the front row, I'll have everyone from a little girl in a frilly tutu, to rockers and gamers and older couples. I love it that it's just everybody.
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Creatively, I'd like to achieve not only being an artist, but being a businessman and having my own music home.
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The formats have changed so much, and even if you look at alternative music today, most of it isn't really that alternative. It's just good, strong, modern music.
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There's too much emphasis on backstory and personal stuff in music now - it's not going to make the music better if I hear that you did karate for the six months leading up to it.
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Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
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People see me as a theoretician, but my music is also seductive, even spiritual.
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Music is a spiritual event and a means to realize freedom.
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But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music.
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There was this hip-hop collective called People Crew. And at the time in Korea, there was no real place to access rap music. So People Crew used to host this summer school program, which taught rapping and dancing. I begged my mom to attend that school to learn how to rap.
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They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.
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What inspires me is the desire to be on. The desire to be successful. The desire to reach people through my music and make a living off it and never have to do anything else. Being able to do music full time and travel the world and share this music with everybody. That's the dream.
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I've always loved color because it's a little bit like music. I love that it seems to be both physical and ephemeral and engages us as a metaphor for our feeling lives.
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I'm a big fan of certain new acts. I love any genre of music, and I think it's really great to see that there are new artists coming through. It's kinda funny to think that I'm like the old man on campus now. But I'm really happy for groups like One Direction. I think they're really good guys.
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I didn't know that there were many rules in music when I first started writing.
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I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
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You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like.
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Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic.
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My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.
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There is a dark music in the screams of your enemies.” (Raphael)
