Music Quotes
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My eyes went blank, and I stared off, and the music started. It was raining, and the sun was shining at the same time, and there were these big bay windows, and there was the blue in the sky, and the sun on the trees, and it was drizzling.
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We are making music for the human race, and even beings from other galaxies are welcome to vibe with us.
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For me, family has always been one of the key reasons to make music.
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I called it 'Cloud 9' because that's the place I want to take people when they are listening to my music. It's also where I am when I make music.
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In 'thinking up' music I usually have some kind of a brass band with wings on it in back of my mind.
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I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.
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It's hard to say what an album is about - because each one is usually about a lot of things to me, but then I hope it also can mean a lot of different things to someone else. That's the beautiful thing about music.
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One thing I always loved about hip-hop music was the raw, boom-bap element - it felt powerful and manly.
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Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
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We've never been satisfied with just making 'me' music. What we're doing is trying to go to a place of some reverence.
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We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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I am a hardcore VH1 lover and always have this dream of featuring in an English music video of VH1.
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I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.
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It's a deliberate choice. I am a fervent supporter of the idea that you don't have to have wall-to-wall music in good films.
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I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.
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People are used to seeing kids jump around. You know, the target audience, the audience that's spending money on music, like rock and hip-hop - they're used to seeing people get really physically involved in their music.
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I've played so many gigs in front of around seven people. It's difficult to keep motivated, but it's all about growth. The love of music kept me going.
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With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.
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My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do - a song or a poem, or a piece of music. At school, I remember being a cat and then a budgie and then a bumble bee. I obviously thought all that was marvelous.
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Look at Daft Punk and Kanye West. The song 'Stronger' was inspired by a Daft tune. Once the hip-hop scene opens up to all the great music that came out of dance, it will continue to spread to the more mainstream audience.
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The ballet makes us look at those bodies, it makes us listen to that music, it makes us wonder at the geometry, of the way they come together. The way that extraordinary space is controlled and given such emotional force.
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I definitely have relapses of stress. Most human beings are like that. But I think, ultimately, music is a therapeutic situation. Once you start playing, it all just gets resolved.
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I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
