Music Quotes
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I fell into music, but I just needed to find the right moment to jump into acting.
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The bass is the link between harmony and rhythm. It is the foundation of a band. It is what all the other instruments stand upon, but it is rarely recognized as that.
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After being in a 'professional rock ensemble,' there's a great joy in making music with friends, without any release plan.
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
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I think, when all bands start, when you're on your first album you have the benefit of hoovering up people who genuinely come across the music and really like it, but also those sort of 'floating voters' who just like pop music when they're young. And I think that when you get to your fourth album, those floating voters have dissipated and you're left with a core audience, and at that point you've really got to get your act together and move on to something else to keep afloat, or you'll just shrink with your core audience.
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I believe that when you really make the best music you can make from your heart, it will transcend all of those stereotypes, color issues, everything, because music is really made for human beings.
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They tell me Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
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I love grooves and dance music, but I like the feeling behind songs too.
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You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
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I'm not really interested in participating in mainstream culture. Participating in the mainstream music business is, to me, like getting involved in a racket. There's no way you can get involved in a racket and not someway be filthied by it.
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I am telling you what I know—words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.
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“Music stays in the air. It travels at the speed of breath at the sound of light.It is never not heard.It can wait centuries if it has to.”
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My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
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The fundamental message of the Wu Tang music is as vast as the ocean in all reality, but it's still a straight path. You can take one lyric and by researching what that lyric is giving out to you, it should give you more than a day's worth of school, maybe three days' worth of school.
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I'm a huge stadium rock fan, but I'm also a fan of everything from Massive Attack to Peter Gabriel, U2, the Police, Radiohead, and Coldplay.
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At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
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Yeah, I was with Jethro Tull for three weeks, so what?
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And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area.
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Music is a very integral part of my life because I was born into a musical family, and it's not just a passion... it's everything for me.
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I think 'Never Land' is, like, my first really strong attempt to create music... that can encourage people who share my faith but also challenge and intrigue people who don't.
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I'm a bit of a geek when it comes to music. I like studio gear. I'm always looking it up on eBay and seeing what I can afford.
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Baseball is a ballet without music. Drama without words.
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Nada is found within. It is a music without strings which plays in the body. It penetrates the inner and outer and leads you away from illusion.
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Life's greatest tragedy is not that it will someday end, but that most only live to follow directions and sometimes we end up totally lost.
