Music Quotes
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There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music.
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I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.
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I was never really a Mod. I thought I was more of a beatnik with the brown corduroy jacket, blue jeans, etc. I loved the music Mods liked, and I loved the clothes, but I didn't have any money to spend on them.
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I want to share music that we grew up with for this generation, the music my parents shared with me.
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As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or whatever.
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It's great to have all this stuff at home. But when you want to make it for real, there's still nothing like making music with a bunch of other great musicians in the same room. That's one thing that'll never change.
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'Aqualung' marks the point at which I had the confidence as a songwriter and as a guitar player to actually pick up and play the guitar and be at the forefront of the band. It's also the album on which I began to address religious issues in my music, and I think that happened simply because the time was right for it.
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The trouble with making music as a job is that I have no outside interests. All I can do to wind down is go to sleep.
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I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me.
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I love X-Games music.
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I always wrote music for my friends, but my focus was on playing piano. I didn't think I'd be quite good enough to be a soloist, but I believed that if I worked hard enough, I could work as a player, a teacher.
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Seriously, my heart is to just go forward as far as I can, making music that I love and seeing where the journey takes me.
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Today's consumer is less interested in possessing things and more in experiencing them. That's something the music industry needs to get its head around. Do we even need record companies any more?
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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You're not supposed to say the word 'cancer' in a song.And tellin' folks Jesus is the answer can rub 'em wrong.It ain't hip to sing about tractors, trucks, little towns, and mama, yeah that might be true.But this is country music and we do.
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Look at me! I can go from 'Donny and Marie' to Sam Peckinpah to Radio City Music Hall in one week.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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I love all types of music. I love top 40 dance pop, hip-hop, I don't even know what they call it now. I'm a huge fan of all that.
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I've made my music so that it could be about anything and everybody - whether it's a guy, a female or a goat - and everybody can relate to that.
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I used to look at composing music as problem solving. But as I get older, it's not about problem solving anymore. There are no solutions, because there are no problems. You just turn the tap and it flows out.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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A stone is frozen music.
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Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that feel of music with urgency that speaks to you. It speaks to your livelihood and it's not compromised. It's blunt. It's raw, straight off the street - from the beat to the voice to the words.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
