Music Quotes
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Everything's stolen. Everything precious - be it a kiss, or be it James Brown - gets misappropriated to the aid of the advertising executives. So, an act of reclamation, somewhere else to be: that's what I want my music to be. Somewhere you can step into. A place.
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Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
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You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all.
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When I put Foster The People together, I just wanted to play music with friends.
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I think the rebuilding of the city has to start with the spirit first. So the music, the vibe, the connection spiritually with the artists. Everybody out here is the main key. A lot of people are still in a lot of tough situations. My heart still goes out to the people of New Orleans.
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I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.
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People grapple with labeling me as hip-hop, R&B, or pop, and it's interesting to me. I'm just making music.
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It's such a lonely existence, living with a rock n' roller. No matter how much he loves you, he will always love his music more.
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The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.
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Music is such an important part of society, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra offers such great quality, and we just want to share it.
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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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The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.
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I have to admit I've found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I'm pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.
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I was always afraid to write music.
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It gives the listener a good workout, to listen to the music, the same as it does us to play it.
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Again, I'm used to speaking to a lot of people; I have a lot of friends and family, and I perform music and speak in front of a lot of crowds. So I share with people already a lot in my life.
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I love music; I love performance. I love everything revolving around art. But I also am really passionate about politics and human rights and science and the environment. Those are things that fascinate me.
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I always had a frisson when I heard the Champions League music. To play in that competition, to score a goal in it, is something special for me.
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I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.
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I dont think I threw myself into music because I had the best intentions; it was because I was really angry.
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I love writing music, but it seems I'm always writing words, so I don't get much time to do it.
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Birmingham did a truly remarkable thing in building Symphony Hall, which is the finest concert hall in the U.K. and one of the best in the world. The city has supported music without putting on the brakes.
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I tried to work with a record label; I tried to work with a booking agency, variety shows. I went to Vegas. I just tried everything I could think of, and nothing took. No one thought there was a place for my style and my music; it was just too different.
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I think it's so dope that I'm here in Chicago and contributing to the music scene that's thriving. People are so happy Chicago's shining that everyone is willing to say 'I represent Chicago.' That wasn't always the case.
