Music Quotes
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The '70s and '80s were just the period during which the best soul music was created and the best records were done.
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The 'Carousel' overture has always been one of my all-time favorite pieces of music.
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You cannot have black music without something soulful in it, whether it's lyrically, how it's performed, or how it's expressed.
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Shh. Listen to the sounds that surround you. Notice the pitches, the volume, the timbre, the many lines of counterpoint. As light taught Monet to paint, the earth may be teaching you music.
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In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.
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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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A life without music is an error.
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Starting off in music, the purpose of it was not to become like well known on the street and be famous. You know, I didn't even think about that part of being famous. Famous for making records, yes, but famous face in a woman's magazine, I never thought of that. I didn't want that.
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She wondered what had caused the bald pilgrims to vomit so uniformly, and whether they had vomited together in a single, well-orchestrated heave (to music perhaps, to the rhythm of a bus bhajan), or separately, one at a time.
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As far as the execution is concerned ... the most frequent and most serious mistake is to follow the music instead of preceding it.
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When the family gets together once a year in Georgia for New Year's Eve, we listen to music, all kinds of music. That's what we do.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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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.
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You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it.
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Some people say we're (Coldplay) talented and some say we're the worst thing ever to happen to music, and it's a bit confusing being in the middle of that.
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I feel the popular music of a certain time really tells you a lot about what life was like in that period.
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Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
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I talk openly about my past and what I've gone through - abuse being something that was very real in my household, and a lot of chaos growing up as a child. I think that I naturally just gravitated towards music that I could really feel on a deep level - and that meant sadness. I was able to connect with that at a really young age.
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music.
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I'm not here to change the music world, but I'm definitely here to show what I can do and express myself through my music.
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Music is everybody's possession.
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This music is about struggle. Reggae is a vehicle to carry a message of freedom and peace.
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I love Cher Lloyd's music. I didn't actually hear her music as I was creating my own, but it's cool that we have styles that are considered to be similar.
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Pop music is always great for keeping the energy up, but it can get really old, especially after eight hours, just because there aren't that many great pop songs.
