Music Quotes

• I consider the first 20 performances just learning the piece. Think about it this way: If you think about a pianist who plays a Schubert sonata through his whole lifetime - if you listen to Rubenstein or Horowitz playing their repertoire later in their life, you understand the richness with which they play that music, and how differently they must have played it when they were younger.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Life
  • Learning
  • Performances

• I think streaming, in general, is democratising music in general.

  

  Lauv
  • Music
  • General
  • Streaming

• Blues is such a dynamic and ever-changing system of music.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Music

• There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

  

  Anthony Hemingway
  • Music

• I tour Europe a lot. They still have a love and a fascination with the basic thing about music - how it feels and that being the focus. I've got people bringing their kids. And their kids bring their kids. The grandchildren are getting selfies with their Uncle Al.

  

  Al Jarreau
  • People
  • Kids
  • Focus

• I respect artists so much, and I absolutely love music as the ultimate art.

  

  Christie Brinkley
  • Music
  • Art
  • Respect

• So the whole basis for jazz music is based on the fact that the bass player could not play his instrument.

  

  Miroslav Vitous
  • Play
  • Player
  • Facts

• The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
  • Good
  • Song

• I was very sure I did not want to be the stereotype of what Indian people are seen as, which is Bollywood and henna. That's all great! It's what we are, and I love it. I love saris; I love music. I love henna; I love dancing, but that's not all we are.

  

  Priyanka Chopra
  • People
  • Great
  • Music

• For me my passion is music. I just can't let it go!

  

  Manika
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Go

• I'm grateful for being able to explore different avenues of my writing, whether it be music or stories, and it have an audience.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Explore

• I would be happy if I could meet some musicians interested in different acoustics and traditional music. Maybe I will find some Native American or Latin tunes. Anything. Even maybe a great heavy metal guitar player or drummer, and we can do something wild together. My next step is making more music without formats or borders. Not just simple songs or doing covers, but music with more ideas. I think it will again be a synthesis with something else.

  

  Albert Kuvezin
  • Music
  • Borders
  • Traditional

• Music is language itself. It should not have any barriers of caste, creed, language or anything. Music is one, only cultures are different. Music is the language of languages. It is the ultimate mother of languages.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Different
  • Mother
  • Culture

• There's a lot of spirituality and hope in our music that I think people are catching on to. It's not punk, it's not Green Day, not Offspring, not Soundgarden, not Stone Temple Pilots, not all of the other bands that are coming out.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • People
  • Hope
  • Green

• Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

  

  Chuck Berry
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Live

• Probably the deepest use of music and of art is to create conscience.

  

  Joseph Henry "T Bone" Burnett III The Alpha Band
  • Art
  • Create
  • Conscience

• Music is critical in our lives and culture. It's the inspiration that drives us. It's also the window to our souls. It's a reflection as to who we are, what we stand for and where we're going.

  

  Bill Walton
  • Culture
  • Inspiration
  • Reflection

• It was two extremes of influence being put next to each other: the most electronic music we have on the record and the most old, out-of-style music we have on the record.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Record

• It always cracks me up when program directors or music directors or companies will say, 'Well, we did research, and we interviewed 25 people in our focus group, and this is what they said.' And I'm like, 'I've talked to 25 people in two hours! I talk to 50, 60, 70 people a night! Five or six days a week!'

  

  Paloma Ayana Stoecker
  • People
  • Up
  • Night

• So I don't really have a clear plan, in terms of music, as to where I want to head in the future.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Music
  • Future
  • Plan

• I had a portable 8-track player under all my ramps, cranking one of my four 8-tracks - Cars/'Candy-O,' Ramones/'Road To Ruin,' Cheap Trick/'Heaven Tonight' and the first Devo record. I don't remember skating without music.

  

  Jeff Ament
  • Remember
  • Player
  • Heaven

• I'm sort of socially inept, so music is my way to connect to people. It's a means of socializing and having a life. Otherwise I wouldn't bother. I would just make home recordings and play them for myself. And that's not really healthy.

  

  Stephen Malkmus Pavement
  • Healthy
  • Socializing
  • Recordings

• I think film is the best medium to inspire people. It's a combination of image, dialogue, and music, which can make for a powerful message or a simple escape.

  

  Martha Hunt
  • People
  • Simple
  • Powerful

• There are thousands of great artists that wouldn't be doing the same kind of work if there were no music business machine. The ones who are popular would be doing much different work, too. Michael Bolton would be pumping gas.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

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