Music Quotes
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It took me a long time to find my own voice, even after I started making my own music.
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In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
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If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
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Hearing music is like viewing scenery and... when we hear good music our minds react in very much the same way they do when we see things.
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I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
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Rap has been a path between cultures in the best tradition of popular music.
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I guess I'm not saying that I think music should be free, but I do think that if people can get it for free, there's nothing anyone can do to stop them. It's kind of a waste of energy to try and force them to pay for it if they don't have to.
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A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working.
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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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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.
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I call my music ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.
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Just as a blues player can play 20 blues songs in a row but find a way to make each one different, ... I always want to find different ways to do something
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When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a country music singer, but I never dreamed I'd be a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
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Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.
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I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.
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I knew that I was going to dedicate my life to music and that was it.
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To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal.
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I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.
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I'm a very visually motivated person. Music is always going to be the thing I'm most motivated by, but music and visuals go hand in hand.
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Music is a huge inspiration to my style. I first got into it when I was 10: the new wave mod scene.
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I had business experience. I had made my living designing and building electronic equipment. Basic business was not new to me, but the music business was completely new to me. I knew nothing about distribution, or any of those things.
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Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
