Music Quotes
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I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
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My mother was a very talented pianist, and she was a music teacher who hated to teach music, actually, but she loved to play, so I was brought up with Chopin, Debussy and Mozart.
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I teach class. I study music. I rehearse. I coach people. That's it. I'm doing exactly what I want.
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You know what we pride ourselves on that - although I wouldn't mind if my backside was a little smaller. But look at the original divas... take Aretha Franklin for example - I've seen her live in the States and she was mammoth, but she had that crowd under control and they doted on every movement she made! We're not little midgets but the music industry is not about that, it's about loving the music and respecting what you do.
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My music is in young people's lives because it's so much a part of their parents' lives.
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I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
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Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my favorite poet of all time, and he said that he wasn't quite familiar with the sounds of music. If so, he would have been a musician. All of his poems are all like songs, and that's how I always try to start my thoughts.
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Without music he felt aimless and adrift.
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My mother and dad loved music, were very much into music.
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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
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Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
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Being my own boss and working inside an industry that's not really an industry, I need to keep busy and keep working. The only way to make money in music - unless you're managing someone - is to tour, and even that depends on where you are at.
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Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days.
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I went into college undeclared. I had no idea what I wanted to do, but I knew that music was obviously this central big important thing in my life that I was gonna keep doing.
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I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.
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I've always thought of music as profound spirituality because you can use that music and that spirituality for personal gain or for the good of the world, the good of humanity, and for the good of your people.
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At the end of the day, if you're an actor, you want to act. And it's not something you can do in the living room alone. If you're a painter, you can paint at home. If you write music, you can write on your own.
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I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.
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And for the past 10 years I've been in a real commercial setting where people are all about numbers, they're all about that bottom line. So it's nice to step out of that and hang out with a bunch of people who play music just because they love it, as you can imagine.
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In the film work, I love to work mainly from the script and from talking to the directors, so a lot of the music, big portions of the scores that I've made, have been composed before the movies were even shot.
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I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
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My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it.
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I've been auditioning for a few movies here and there. I don't want anything to get in the way of the music any more than it has. It hasn't really gotten in the way; I've been doing two things at once.
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If you tell a kid, 'You've got to pick music or Instagram,' they're not picking music.
