Music Quotes
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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
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That's the miracle of music. No one can reinterpret a Picasso, but a song can be remixed and covered and interpreted in an infinite number of ways. It's a living thing.
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I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
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In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.
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There's very little to be said for learning a piece note by note, reading the rhythmic markings, practising the fingerings and following your instructor's suggestions, if you haven't any idea how the music will eventually sound and feel. If you learn a piece mechanically, you may have to 'unlearn' it before you can play it with expression and feeling.
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Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.
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Growing up in Ireland, there are a lot of aspects of God that hang in the air. And my music reflects that.
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When you're making music, you don't look at what's going on in the studio next to you.
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I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.
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I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.
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I do think that music videos have a huge impact on the way you listen to music.
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I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.
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I was always told that music isn't a 'realistic' path to take, and like a normal human being, I doubted myself over and over because I was afraid of failure.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of.
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I used to download music illegally. Everyone has. No one is innocent. Everyone has done that.
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I was into the music scene, but I was also a bit of a perfectionist and very hard on myself... very dark in that way.
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I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.
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Yeah, I've always sung, and I always try to find a way for music to be in my life.
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Support music every day because there isn’t a day music won’t be there for you!
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Traditionally, when we lived here in Portland, we have a record player in the living room, and there's lots of stuff playing, all different kinds of music. I don't listen to any of those Internet radio things. I have iTunes on my thing, but I've never bought a single thing on it. Except for "Call Me Maybe," for the kids or whatever. Carly Rae Jepsen.
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I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream.
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Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
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That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed."
