Music Quotes
-
I like the fervor of religious music, the zealous aspect - that preachers can go from a conversational cadence into this passionate singing.
-
In fact the hardest part is trying to forget music when I'm not conducting it.
-
I don't find music being less important than, like, politics.
-
I think once I started writing my own music and having my own bands, that's when I got more of a focus on what I wanted to do, personally.
-
I try to go to concerts whenever I can, just because I love music.
-
I am not a huge follower of music and tend to like one CD and play it to death, usually when I am washing up.
-
We did have choruses before, just the libraries of music in people's heads are so undeveloped that their ideas of choruses are training wheels and the Bay City Rollers.
-
I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.
-
Games have has as much an impact on Hollywood filmmaking as MTV music videos did.
-
Everything I do has a certain quality, a certain flair, a certain flavor. I like to eat the way I like to dress, the way I listen to music: put it all together, and it's a great party.
-
I've always had a teenage thread running through my music.
-
I love the fact that people can relate to what I'm saying, even if it's not for the same subject I was writing about. That is the power of real music and real expression.
-
I've always tried to put a little message in my music.
-
It's great being an actor and being part of a play or a film where there's usually quite a big group of people who are collaborating, and your job is really to fit in and share that energy. With music, because I write the songs, it's a broader, more abstract process.
-
When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music.
-
My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.
-
From my experience, I've been honest about who I am and what I believe and the motivation behind my music. But I've played it in arenas that are for all people. I've pretty much stuck to that model my whole career.
-
I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
-
The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
-
My hip-hop fans are a little spoiled - they want a particular level of lyricism and energy that I'm known for. When they don't get that, it takes a little time for them to open up to it. But electronic fans are as free as the music. On social media, they were so excited and loud; they're in awe.
-
I love the Mexican muralists - like Rivera, Orozco - and the music of Walter Benton. They gave you a sense that reality was much more than life.
-
I cannot imagine a genuinely happy home without music in it.
-
I rented a house, recorded the stuff in a house. Just took my time 'cuz sometimes it's just rush, rush, rush. I just wanna live and play music.
-
Not everybody in the country-music community is like me - I just happen to be one of the guys that is stereotypical.
