Music Quotes
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Making music you can dance to is very important to me. I grew up in a family where, when we listened to music everybody would dance, so for me that’s a very natural thing to do.
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My wife and I were shopping for the whole family. In the music department my wife said, "Let's get your nephew a set of drums. That's what your brother did to us last year."
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I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
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The first thing I do in the editing room is the 'radio edit,' where you listen to the dialogue and don't even look at the visuals. The rhythm, the music of the comedy, has to work.
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I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.
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Everyone in my family, they do music, and they love music; it's all about the music.
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I love the appropriateness of making a dogmatic statement. I support that, but that is a different level of the individual consciousness than was the source of our music.
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
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What is interesting to me is what has happened in the past that has made me who I am today together with all of my musical influences.
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Everyone I talk to says stuff like, 'Music sucks today,' and I'm going to try and change all that.
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I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
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I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.
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I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.
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When it comes to melodies, production, and sound in pop music, people try to be formulaic and solely concerned with what's resonant in a way that is so cheap and ugly. It actually just devolves culture, ultimately.
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When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.
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I definitely have a different perspective on music in general. But once I actually have a guitar in my hands, I think I disappear into the same black hole that I was disappearing into when I was 15.
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Nat doing 'Fault' was the greatest thing for our band, and the only reason that our song got in it because Nat was screaming it in the movie. Now we can say that we have a song in 'Fault in Our Stars,' and we have a thousand fans who went to listen to our music because we performed at an event for 'Fault in Our Stars.'
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It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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The music is at its best when people are truly digging in.
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If you're trying to connect to people with music - it's more of an outward process and a lot of times musicians can be very inward.
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Well there is a lot of great music out there but sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find it.
