Music Quotes
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'Lollipop Opera' is the backdrop to Finsbury Park. A place that is very thriving, interracial and lot of music stores, Greek, Turkish, all sorts of immigrant music. It's utter Englishness. It blends the Jamaicans, the Irish. It's like what Jim Reeves did with American country music.
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One of my favorites is 'The Sound of Music'. When Julie Andrews runs through the hills singing her head off, I always wish that a gust of wind would blow her skirt up.
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I always listen to music, my passion and vice is music, I will be denied access to heaven because of the number of CDs I own, and I have gluttony for all types and colours of music.
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I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.
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What I like is when you can hear the heart and soul of music and can feel the energy coming out of it, because that's what it's like when you drive.
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I've always loved English and loved English music and TV shows.
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I've been doing it since I was prepubescent when I loved to scratch records and play good music. As it happens, you know I sort of fell into the mix. I really feel like I played a role in bringing dance music to America years ago.
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A game master or teacher who was primarily concerned with being close enough to the "innermost meaning" would be a very bad teacher. To be candid, I myself, for example, have never in my life said a word to my pupils about the "meaning" of music; if there is one it does not need my explanations. On the other hand I have always made a great point of having my pupils count their eighths and sixteenths nicely. Whatever you become, teacher, scholar, or musician, have respect for the "meaning" but do not imagine that it can be taught.
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I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder
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I think it's easy to make impenetrable music that nobody can get, and you can hide behind that sometimes.
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I'm really visually stimulated more than anything. I don't really listen to music. I'm more into watching telly or watching movies and visual art.
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I don't want to do children's music. I write kids songs, but the kids songs I write are for my kids - like when I'm putting them to bed. We sing some song that we made up but I don't want to make a record like that.
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I still have a lot of passion for music, but I would quit it tomorrow if that's what my family needed me to do. I'm sure I'd miss it, but it's a job.
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What is life but a Spectrum and what is music but life itself.
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I always did music privately as a hobby, I think partly because I was nervous to do it in front of other people.
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I'd say it's just part of the world that we live in; it's part of the music world.
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Music has always been an incredibly significant part of my life and a meaningful way in which I express myself.
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Selling your apartment in New York is like dating a manic-depressive.. you get used to cycles of elation and despondency. Every time someone would come to see the apartment, there was the thrill of the date. You want to be presentable, so you clean the place up, make sure it smells good, put on some mood lighting and mellow music.
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It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.
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I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life.
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NBC has not once given me a music note. I get the freedom to do what I want, and that's kind of amazing.
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My idea is that artists should make their music available for free, and fans should only pay for it if they really like it.
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Holland is to dance music what Nashville is to country.
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I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.
