Music Quotes
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If you look before the '90s, you might not find many - if any - albums with multiple producers. It just didn't exist in the history of music. That would have been like Michael Jackson telling Quincy Jones, 'Look man, I know we did well on 'Off The Wall,' but I'm hot now, and I need to see some other producers for 'Thriller.''
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That kind of empty; when hope is no longer deferred but evaporated, and try as you might, and you do try, you can't find the pleasure in the little things. A fine meal, good music, a breathtaking view of the landscape, the smell of the ocean, snow falling, it all adds up to a storehouse of memories and regrets, and you can't imagine there's a perchance left to be had.
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I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to.
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A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it's good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.
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If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.
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It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.
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I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.
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Music is my greatest love. If I could play an instrument I would be a musician.
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Before I settled on music, I wanted to be an archaeologist, an astronaut, all sorts of really diverse things.
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I was raised around music.
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I think that soul, to me, is the theme of music that I connect with.
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For starters, I wanted to do an acting role in a movie that had nothing to do with the music business or in which I would play a singer or a songwriter. When I act, I don't even want to be thought of as Ne-Yo.
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Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.
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I usually listen to surf music, not much instrumental music, and when I was younger I listened to jazz.
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I obviously use computers. My car is wondrous. My phone is amazing. I've already talked about the music I'm digitizing. Technology is fantastic, of course.
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I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.
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I always loved music, I just never thought of it as a career. Baseball was always my thing.
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I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.
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I've been an Amy Winehouse fan since her first album, 'Frank.' I always listen to her music when there's a lot going on and I want to be a bit grounded. It's like my musical warm fuzzy blanket.
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Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.
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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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In terms of rock and roll, I'm often drawn to louder, rougher stuff; maybe that's my history as a punk rock wannabee showing itself! Honestly, though, I'm not one of those people who listens to music constantly. I really love silence.
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There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.
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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.
