Music Quotes
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I think the glamour of my previous life probably comes into the music somewhere. I think the contrast is probably what led me into the festival. I needed a little bit of that glamour.
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I wouldn't do the music thing if it weren't for my brother, who's a producer. He understands me and helps my vision come to life.
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My music has been my passport to the world, and it's been amazing for me.
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I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been something I was saying for a long time.
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No music while making love... the sound of the love being made is better than music.
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I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.
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Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me.
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It's not hard for me to be honest with my fans because that's what I set out to do from the beginning - I've based my entire career off of just trying to do that for them - but I always kind of forget that my real life friends can hear my music and they can watch my interviews if they want and that's when I get kind of like- "oh..." - I don't necessarily sit down and talk to my friends about all the things that I write my music about, because it's easier for me to write music than to sit and talk to my friends about it sometimes- it's almost like writing in a diary.
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So many of my friends are still trying to get record deals, and I've had one for 10 years now, where my only goal is to make the best music I can make. I've been very lucky. I have great faith that I'm exactly where I'm supposed to be, and whatever happens is going to be absolutely right for me.
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But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.
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A part of the popularity of these music live-streams is that artists get to sing their songs to the face of the person they mostly wrote them for - themselves.
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I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.
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I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chasing the turkey. All the other mom's encouraged my mom to get me into acting after that. Also, when I saw 'The Sound of Music' at Music Circus, I knew I wanted to act.
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When we were making vinyl records we had a lot of time limitations for each record so songs were left off for a number of reasons. Now, with CDs, much more music can be included.
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Falling in Place was meant to be very much rooted in a place and time, and music was a part of that.
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People want you to be beautiful and shut up. When I paint or play music, they'd rather not know about that.
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The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.
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It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.
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The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music.
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I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals.
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I'm inspired by music. Sometimes more than I want to be.
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I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart.
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I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis
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In my personal opinion, I think both Block B and soloist Park Kyung release great music. If I had to pick a difference, the music of Block B is comparably strong and for me, as a solo artist, I focus more on my own music style.
