Music Quotes
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One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.
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I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.
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Even with artists I love, only about a third of their music is what really hits the sweet spot for me.
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I think there's nothing better than seeing a three-chord straight up rock 'n' roll band in your face with sweaty music and three minute good songs.
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We're in an age when everything's present tense. People don't know how to be still and surrender to the music.
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All the best art and music feels like some type of truth - even if it's really simple - that you just can't deny. A listener can feel that.
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Acting was truly all that I ever wanted to do. I've always acted in plays and sang and played music, and you get to a certain age and think there's nothing else that you'd rather do.
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Our first show, 'A Little Nightmare Music,' encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.
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I never made movies that had any of my music. I haven't crossed them over that much.
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There is a built-in appreciation for music that is so much a part of the LDS culture. Utahns know that music can be divine and can touch a person's spirit in a unique way.
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Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
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I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.
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I love writing for dancers. You don't have to worry about the lyrics. I think to write words without music must be so frustrating. It must be always be so good, so perfect.
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In the hysterical technocracy of modern music, sorrow is sent to the back of the class where it sits, pissing its pants in mortal terror.
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I'm just a singer/songwriter and entertainer and I miss people and the energy of the crowd. When I play live it's a lovefest with me and my audience. It's how I get my rocks off.
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Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.
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I'm certain that I will be able to do music that's more like me as I get to know more about myself. I think that is an artist's fate. You have to keep trying to find your own world and express it.
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Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.
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I did a 20-minute selection of scenes from the play 'Spring Awakening' in college, well before the musical came around, so when the musical was becoming a hot thing, and I was reading interviews with Duncan Sheik about how he came to do the music, I think it's interesting.
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I have quite catholic taste in music.
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A good concert, if you're kind of relaxed, it can do something to you. It's sort of an emotional break you get by listening to music.
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However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.
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I often use the same harmonies as pop music because the complexity of what I do is elsewhere.
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I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out.
