Music Quotes
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My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them.
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How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error.
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I was in college, and very disappointed. I majored in commercial art and interior design for three or four years. At that time, it seemed the thing I really wanted to do, production design, just wasn't available in the U.K., so I turned to music.
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Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape.
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I was always very into heavy metal, and heavy metal is full of emotion and extremes, and I think that's the same in dance music.
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From Ennio Morricone I ask for themes that clothe my characters easily. He's never read a script of mine to compose the music, because many times he's composed the music before the script is ever written.
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Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.
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Darker music turns you into a hardcore motherfucker!
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In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.
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That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.
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I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music.
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Music is one of those art forms that you can get pretty immediate feedback by just doing it and getting better at it.
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My mother - the Irish side of the family - was very musical. My mother was a singer; there was music around the house all the time.
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Pop music I have always loved best.
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There is no greater picture than that of 10,000 smiling children. No brighter music than their clear-ringing laughter. That I, with my small amusements, have created such precious art is my life's proudest achievement.
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I just like playing music and doing it with people that I care about. It doesn't really matter where. It's like, 'Why don't we just play piano in a small bar? Why do we want to make an arena full of people happy?'
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Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.
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When I have young artists who come up and talk about my records and tell me they remember certain songs or that they used to play my records or play my songs, and when they know the music, it just boggles my mind. I love that. It's very rewarding.
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My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
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As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly.
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A lot of producers don't have any musical education. I couldn't make the music I make without playing the piano.
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YouTube provides a unique opportunity for all musicians to market and promote their music and directly engage their fans.
Chad Hurley -
I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.
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I simply love Wagner's music. That actually started very early. He was the first composer I was exposed very much to because my parents introduced me to Wagner's music very early.
