Music Quotes
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A lot of bands are still just bands that artists ask to get involved, but a lot of artists are using sound they create. This is different from referencing music.
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Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire.
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If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
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If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.
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There's zero correlation between owning music and being a greater music lover or musician than the next person.
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I don't think it's an artist's responsibility to be political all the time. I think your first responsibility as an artist is to make music that people will listen to and enjoy. However, I think that when you are able to say something that is moving and put it in a great song, then that is even better.
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After you make good, quality music, then it's your job to go out there and promote it and to market it and to get it out there to the people.
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I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way.
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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
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I still miss music and singing. One day, I'm going to sing with a big band.
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But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.
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I just feel like this guy who's visiting the music business over the weekend. Every time I write a song, I feel like it's never going to happen again.
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There are many ways to get involved with lives or communities and enrich the minds of others through music, but you really have to want to do this.
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What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.
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I'm a picker, I'm a grinner, I'm a lover and I'm a sinner. I play my music in the sun.
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When I was a kid, a lot of my parents' friends were in the music business. In the late '60s and early '70s - all the way through the '70s, actually - a lot of the bands that were around had kids at a very young age. So they were all working on that concept way early on. And I figured if they can do it, I could do it, too.
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The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
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I used to consider the listener. But now I'm in a space where, if I'm not inspired, I can't really do the music. I can't feel it.
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The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.
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Music isn't only a profession.
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My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.
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This is sad. I just think it’s a little ridiculous we are still only looking at the surface of one another. Red hair? Blue hair? Pink? Blonde? Short? Long? Whatever. We might as well shave our heads. Hair has nothing to do with the reason we playing music. It’s a style. Something that will never last as long as the songs we play and the words we sing. Listen up ladies in bands, I’m so proud to be one of you and I don’t care if we all look exactly alike or if we are all carbon copies of each other. We have things to say and it’s up to us to get people to not just look but to LISTEN!
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Whenever I get asked to write orchestra music or music that is for a lot of players, I try to make it a little sad.
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Look at music like gaming. You monetize the game to all the people who are most engaged. I wanted to bring that theory and thinking to music.
