Music Quotes
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Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
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Music became less understandable in the wake of the new MTV era. You weren't supposed to be anything other than a pop star, to not go deeper than that. It was really strange. It was suffocating, image-wise. What you could talk about in a song changed; if you were misunderstood, you were really misunderstood - taken literally.
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I'm working on my music a lot, like folk singing, guitar. It's sort of rocky, folky, alty, angsty. I'm putting a lot of energy into that. I write pretty much all the time.
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Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
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Music, performance, and a woman is very rarely accepted within Muslim communities.
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Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands.
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that get people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.
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A long long time ago, I can still remember how that music use to make me smile.
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Life is not about finding our limitations, it's about finding our infinity.
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I don't think that just because a lot of my music has a quieter aesthetic; [it] excludes me from achieving that in a live setting, from being dangerous or something.
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I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.
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I doubt anybody would have pushed me on the music. When I was at Sony nobody ever gave me any creative suggestions on the music.
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I have pretty ecumenical tastes. I'm interested in a lot of different kinds of music, so I don't listen with a jaundiced ear to music because it's in a certain category, whether it's country or opera or hip-hop or bebop or whatever it is.
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The music pot is broad. It's just unfortunate that the record companies cry the blues as frequently as they do.
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I think I am a late-bloomer. My taste in music just keeps getting better.
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I wouldn't have known when I was a teenager that when I was coming up to being a sixty-year-old woman that I'd be making music, I'd be recording music, talking about music, and incorporating my views on the world into the music-making. So it's a very rarefied place to be, and I'm very grateful for that.
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With music, there's a conversation happening. You're hearing what's going on right now, with people's emotional states, in a communal way, and listening to that is really - it's both informative and so generous. It's like emotional news.
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I have new music coming out. I'm working on some television shows. I still do a tremendous amount of concerts. I'm doing my restaurant. I got a club coming in New York. The restaurant is called Doug E. The club is called Fresh.
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As me being somebody that makes arguably nostalgic music, I cannot stand when somebody tries to make old music just to sound old.
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As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
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Ballroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony.
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The Who had a great sense of humor. And they were also very serious when it came down to making music.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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It's not like we set out to antagonize the audience in any way. We're just presenting our music; it's really much more innocent.
