Music Quotes
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I feel bad about Lil Wayne going to jail, because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.
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When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the same roof. So anything creative is interesting to me.
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I'm not a propaganda machine. I tell things how I see them. When I say, for example, that corruption is not the only thing the West should think about when they think about Nigeria, I'm not saying it doesn't exist but that people have the complete wrong focus. There's music, there's art, there's culture
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I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
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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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The love of Christ is not a pretend love. It is not a greeting-card love. It is not the kind of love that is praised in popular music and movies.
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Music really is our daily medicine.
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I'll see something or hear something. Sometimes, it can be a color. Or a piece of music. Or an image of some kind. I see something, and it has huge emotional weight, although I have no idea why.
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I was addicted to 'The Monkees' TV programme - not so much because of the music but because of the commercials in between. The programme was sponsored by Yardley, and in the commercial breaks, there would be these English girls on roller skates, wearing hot pants, and I just thought, 'God! How neat!'
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If you emphasize one part of the song, it trivializes the rest of the music.
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I can't write music unless I'm deeply connected to it and that connection almost always comes from some experience that I have had or am having.
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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.
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The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days.
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I never wrote music for the mainstream.
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I kind of want to get the music back on a road it hasn't been on for a while. I want to promote the arts as part of the American diet.
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Music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.
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If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.
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I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn't have the recognition that I have now.
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I've always had good support of parents for doing what I wanted to do. When it became music they were just as supportive as well.
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I was able to believe when everything looked really dark and gray. I had a little break where the music carried me through. I love the music and performing this program. It's always so special to me no matter what happens. It goes beyond an athletic event and just becomes an emotional experience. I was able to attack the rest of the program.
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I do feel like no matter what you're doing, whether it's music or writing a play or a poem or drawing a picture or painting something, that you're speaking to what is it you want to express, what is it you want to see.
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I not only composed music for my albums but also for the film 'Main, Meri Patni Aur Woh.'
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I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it.
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I like African music, and I'm a huge Ravi Shankar fan.
