Music Quotes
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The divorce of poetry and music was first reflected by the printed page. (p. 227)
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The whole American pop culture started in Philadelphia with 'American Bandstand' and the music that came out of that city.
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Music is such a balm. Always has been. It's such a heartbeat, like blood thrumming through the womb. That's why music appeals to people.
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Music should elevate you. You can be raised, or left stranded. You can't be raised all the time, in my experience. This might be a rare moment. You might just go up to that level but that's always good.
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Sometimes you're inspired by an old-school song that you want to chop up and make a sample out of it. I find that with a lot of older Motown music.
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I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too.
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Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up the reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.
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Absolutely, I never stop working on new music.
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The Grammys make me hate music, and certainly everyone in the ass-licking music industry.
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Music can kind of make you one-dimensional. People see what's on the surface and what you rap about, and they make their decision on who you are from there.
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Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
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I think that the people who put caps and the people who put genres on music are the people who are killing our music industry.
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I think music is an intuitive force. It's this beautiful wave that connects all of us and inspires us, and I think music has the ability - when you listen to a song, you're not immediately thinking about the lyrics or what's going on in the mind of the writer, you're feeling the song.
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I suppose that's why new music and I go well together, because new music often requires maintaining great rhythm.
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I feel like I've become less of a music snob and less of a snob about a lot of things because I realize I came off as such a bad person because of that.
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I probably get most of my inspiration through music.
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My music comes from my emotion, always.
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With Frat House, at times I needed to make music that would reflect what these fraternity brothers might actually listen to, but still keep it within the realm of a score; it still had to lead the viewer through the scene, or just help create the mood.
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A music video is so different to doing a movie.
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I'm a big fan of live music and going to gigs, but I'll leave it to the professionals.
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Apple has the radio stations, so I go R&B in the morning, and then I'll go with some hip-hop before the game. But after the game, it's more meditation music. It's not artists; it's more whatever is being played.
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Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.
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In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.
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I'm basically just a normal girl from West London who speaks from her heart and who loves music.
