Music Quotes
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It's a humbling thing, having kids. One of my sons came to rehearsals, and now he says Daddy's job is 'go play loud music.'
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People say to me now, 'Oh, you've given up the piano.' How can you? Music is a virus.
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Music makes me love life, and without it, I don't know if I'd be happy.
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I have always loved creating and entertaining. It started with music, singing. I grew up in a household filled with music - not pop but old-school stuff, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong.
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Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside in front of the computer, make music, and dream about summer - instead of the rainy reality outside.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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I've had fun doing romantic comedies, but I just can't anymore. There's nothing fulfilling creatively, there's nowhere to grow, nothing to learn from it or for yourself. I'd rather just be home with my family or write music until that special project comes my way.
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I played soccer for nine years, so I took that route instead of singing. I played on the outside team as well as in school, so I was always playing soccer. It wasn't until I moved back to London that I really, like, started investing in music again and realized, OK, yeah, this is definitely what I want to do.
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I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want.
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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.
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Music is not my life. Christ is my life.
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Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined.
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Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.
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I am waiting for the lost music to sound again in a new rebirth of wonder.
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Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt.
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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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I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that’s how music gets around.
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She'll turn her music on you You won't have to think twiceShe's pure as New York snow She's got Bette Davis eyes
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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.
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I do like expressing how I feel about things in my music.
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White artists have made millions of dollars off music they stole from black artists. I don't blame all the white artists. I'm a huge Stevie Ray Vaughn fan, and he was always very gracious about where he learned his music. But a lot of the time, you'd think the white guys thought it up. Hey, hasn't anyone heard of Muddy Waters?
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I think the special stuff [music] still finds a way to be heard, as long as you pair it with a good release strategy.
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I like to listen to African music; I like to listen to Brazilian music that's not just Choro. I love to listen to Radiohead, I like to listen to James Brown - any music.
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I actually often write about writing music and being in that zone.
