Music Quotes
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I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music.
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Robert Townson at Varese is a huge fan of film music and has really done a lot to educate audiences about film music and scores.
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I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.
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I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
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It's kind of dumb; everybody should be able to listen to the kind of music they want and just because you're a fan of a band for a longer period of time doesn't mean you have a greater stake of claim to the band or the music.
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I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.
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I learned to play by ear before I learned music theory. For me, that makes sense. After all, children learn to speak before they read and write. The more you understand of music - how harmony and time signatures work, and what chords and inversions are - the more you'll enjoy it.
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I make music almost, like, every day. But I don't release a lot of music.
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I'd be happy if people said that I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.
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The first thing that struck me about contemporary music in general had been thatthere was not much interest in rhythm.
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Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
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I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.
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I'm so into the Boss and who he is, and I've read all his books, and I've watched every DVD, and I love every bit of his music: I would hate for, like, something to happen and ruin it for me. You know what I mean?
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All roads lead to 'American Pie.' 'As American as apple pie' was the saying. It was some kind of a big American song that I wanted to write, which would be a conclusion for my show and bring all the songs home, which it still does. I can go anywhere I want with American music and come home to that. And it all makes sense.
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I wanted to break into producing, so I would peddle my tracks and beats to labels. I always heard the same thing: They liked the music, but it didn't fit any of the artists on their roster.
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I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the 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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I really like writing music. That's kind of like my little hobby. I like that because sometimes you don't really have any control when you're an actor, over what you're doing next, and everything is kind of decided by other people. You're always waiting to hear from people.
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Thankfully, it is getting better for women composers. We now have five women Pulitzer Prize winners in music since 1983: Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Shulamit Ran, Melinda Wagner, Jennifer Higdon, and Caroline Shaw. When Marin Alsop was asked what it felt like to conduct the Last Night of the Proms, she said, "I am exceedingly proud to be 'the first' but I am also a bit shocked that there can still be firsts for women in 2013!"
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And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
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In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.
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When you do a lyric for 'April in Paris,' those who have heard it before can hear it in a different way now. It can add perspective to a great piece of music that does not have a lyric and may be inaccessible to lot of ears because people don't deal with complex music very well.
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When I was 17 years old, I was in the music business.
