Music Quotes
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Here's how I understand music. If you can play the same bunch of noise twice, it's music. To go beyond that is supercilious and pontificating.
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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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Rachmaninov has some kind of weird dark edge to his music which I don't think I've heard with any other kind of music before.
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Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
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With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.
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There are days when I'm completely obsessed with Kate Bush, and there are days when I'm completely obsessed with the Eurythmics. Then it's Aretha Franklin, then it's Lena Horne, then it's Ella Fitzgerald, then it's John Legend, then it's Michael Jackson. Music, to me, is like food, so I feel like whatever I need that day, I can get from a song.
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I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.
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My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
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The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.
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When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
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Our spirit of life is not identical with that of our ancestors, and therefore their music, even if restored with utter technical perfections, can never have to us precisely the same meaning it had for them. We cannot tear down the barricade that separates the present world from things and deeds past.
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The great composers I worked with along the way, I always felt they were filmmakers more than composers. They would talk about the story rather than the music.
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I feel like my music is like - there are always new influences in there.
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I was buying old records a lot in my early teenage years and I was mostly drawn toward the artwork even more than the band itself. I loved the way the art set the scene for the music.
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I have tons of music stashed.
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When I work on music, I never think about vocalists. They're the last person I'm making music for.
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The only reason I got into movies was because I had no music talent.
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With British bands, there was this whole thing about having something to say. But, maybe naively, we said, 'It's about music.' And that's what it's about.
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Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.
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I think that the music we create together is one of a kind.
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I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something.
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I wasn’t thriving socially, so I stayed in my room and played guitar all the time, at the time, I thought I was inventing a new sound that would change the whole outlook of music. I’ve discovered in the last few years that it was just the Seattle Sub Pop sound.
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We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams.
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Over four or five years, I did six albums with three people: John Lennon, Bruce Springsteen, and Patti Smith. I felt that if I could care as much about their music as they did, I could be useful to them. I really cared about their music and their lives.
