Music Quotes
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Quite simply I've distilled my mission down to the essence. The only thing I'm really here to do is shine light on people's lives through music, through laughter and to simply enjoy being with people.
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When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
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I just am really bad at making new friends - especially in the music industry, because they're not really real friends; they're just music industry friends.
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I was a dancer for long time. And you always hear that ballet is the core of dance, and that - once you have that down - you can do everything else. For me, jazz is like that for music.
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby.
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I'll always have songs with a farm connotation on my albums. It's in the fabric of my music, and I plan to keep it that way.
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Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.
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Music to me is life. It's what gets me going.
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Music should always be just a celebration.
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We do a lot of improvisation. There's definitely an element in the music that is well-suited to that scene.
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I'm going to be the first rapper to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I don't know exactly what it would be for, specifically, but I want it to be a change I make in the world with my music.
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Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.
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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization.
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Maybe it's the music that enables them to function like that, to always take everything as it comes and never complain about the misery, hardship or injustice.
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An evening wind uprose too, and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning music.
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My intent is never to leave Latin music. I definitely still want to release bachata albums.
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Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
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Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there?
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You have to let your music be true and then people who want to adopt it as that, they take it on and they love it, and it changes their world.
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Yes, death is strong, but look you, the strongest, Stronger is music than death.
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I just want to shed light, illuminate and turn the spotlight over to all of the black people who have been being futuristic and innovative since instruments were plugged into a wall. With computers, machines, and music, black people have been contributing to that a great deal for a long time.
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I've always argued that all Tame Impala melodies are pure pop. It's just that 'Lonerism,' for example, is a completely rumbling, fuzzed out psychedelic rock album. But for me, it was just pop music produced the way that I like to produce it.
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Here is my music. It is all I have to tell you how I feel. Know that your love keeps my love strong.
