Music Quotes
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I didn't graduate high school, so I never got a teacher's education, I'm mostly self-read, self-taught. I always loved music, so I would probably either be in a band with another group of people, or an arranger, a producer, a musicologist, a music history guy, something to do with music. Either that, or I would probably be in jail. Or dead.
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I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
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My music isn't mainstream music.
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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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I think that's very significant that we're so attached to the idea now of - it was something I advocated for years, that you can make music in studios, music doesn't have to be made as a real-time experience. But now you see the results of that in people who are completely crippled unless they know that they have the possibility of "cut and paste" and "undo." And "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" and "undo" again.
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Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
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I am a simple vessel with complex overtones, opinionated on occasions but willing to listen. Comfortable with reclusiveness and devoted to privacy and family. Patriotic to a fault and allergic to cruelty, ignorance and bad music.
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Opera is music AND drama. I'm prepared to sacrifice the beautiful note for the meaningful sound any time... I can make a pretty tone as well as anyone, but there are times when the drama of a scene demands the opposite of a pretty sound.
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The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
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Wherever there is Cuban music there will be the aura of the Buena Vista Social Club, for whom the farewell tour is also the end of an era. It’s something that makes you sad, to a certain point, for those of us who have seen this project grow.
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Music does not carry you along. You have to carry it along strictly by your ability to really just focus on that little small kernel of emotion or story.
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You’re supposed to create music that motivates people, inspires people and says something. The music I grew up on, whether it was hip-hop or punk, everything used to be a revolution. It was a form of speech where you would express yourself culturally and it could be so strong.
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The realm of classical music is so vast - not only in terms of style but of era, age and the purposes for which it was composed - it is an enormous art form.
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I think people associate genre and music style with creativity, but it's all creativity regardless of what pipeline it comes down.
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Music is the harmonization of opposites; the conciliation of warring elements
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Music is Magic. Magic is Life...
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Phish might’ve already given it away, but inside the white man rages a music festival for lumberjacks.
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Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.
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If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart.
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Often when I find myself listening to music, at least 60 to 70% of it is foreign, so I don't understand a word of it. Melody to me will always be a million times more important than words.
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I know, deep down, that what makes my music what it is are my words. It always starts from me wanting to say something. Once I've run out of things to say, I'll be done.
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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.
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My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
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I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines – of course, I do love a good story.
