Music Quotes
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And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.
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If I had a good scream, like Frank Black, I'd be doing punk music, 'cos I love that.
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The classical music industry, has been an industry of covers. So we do covers, and if I compare this with the rock and pop side, what is the most exciting event?
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The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
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Before music videos first came out, you’d listen to a song with headphones on, sitting in a beanbag chair with your eyes closed, and you’d come up with your own visions, these things that came from within. Then all of a sudden, sometimes even the very first time you heard a song, it was with these visual images attached, and it robbed you of any form of self-expression.
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I listen to boy band music before I have to fire someone.
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You gotta be, like, a professional hippie. You need to make music because you love it.
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I was a huge Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. That was the first 'punk' rock I got into in the Seventies. I didn't find out about a lot of the other stuff that was going on, like New York Dolls and Roxy Music, until a lot later.
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I was really amazed when I started hearing 'Songbird' on the radio. I couldn't believe that the record company promotion department had actually convinced radio music directors to play it -because there wasn't anything like it on the radio at the time.
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Music has a very powerful and wonderful influence in establishing feelings and moods that can lift and elevate your thoughts and your actions.
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Music has power to create a universe or to destroy a civilization.
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Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.
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I just record whenever I can, whenever I'm home, whenever I have access to something that can make music.
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I think myself that, rather like books, music is meant to enter into the brain, well via your ears rather than your eyes but, it's - I think a lot more should be left to the imagination.
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I grew up loving Etta James and Aretha Franklin and Al Green and Otis Redding, and I just love old-school R&B. It's just music that moves you and grooves you, and it was very important, I think, for music.
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All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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I don't particularly love live performance of my music. I love writing and recording, but you can't make money off of that.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.
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This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.
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I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.
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At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.
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I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
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Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.
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I don't listen to my own music at home.
