Music Quotes
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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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Thank you to BBC6 Music and Something Else for the opportunity to broadcast my corner of electronic and alternative music across the airwaves for the last 6 years. # RIP6MIX
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When it came to music growing up, it wasn't just gospel and R&B. My uncle brought rock 'n' roll to me when I was younger, and I loved it. I was open to all music.
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I'm sure that a lot of my friends - even though they're curious about the music of nations that are not on their radar - still don't know what Kuwaiti music sounds like.
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I hate the idea of street art. With music, I just needed my brain and my voice, which didn't cost anything.
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Music has always been a part of my life. It's my way of expression.
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Bad music is the attempt to imitate something that has very strong rules and grammar.
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I'm very hands on with my music - I do all the artwork and everything myself - and the songs I write aren't necessarily the most commercial.
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I have so much respect for the genre of country music and for all the greats that have been a part of it. I'm a country singer, I'm a country fan, and I'm a student of country music.
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Music is reflection of self.
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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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An ellipse of pale rose sand lines the inside of a river bend of such beauty, you could set yourself on fire with the rapture of that curve. In it lies a kind of music in stone that might cure all emptiness.
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I distrust speech therapy. Words are the language of lies and evasions. Music cannot lie. Music talks to the heart.
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Thorny compositions that sound as if female teen punkers the Shaggs received doctorates in the music of 12-tone composer Alban Berg, and then rewrote their Philosophy of the World.... Carefully notated structures and interplay morph effortlessly into free improvisation that is intelligent and expressive, but never self-indulgent. Also featuring intense lyrics sung with their clear and melodic voices, the two women make transcendent chamber music outside of any genre.
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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 don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique.
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There's the juiciest music that makes me so happy, music that I need on that deserted island when I'm stranded for the rest of my life, and nobody cares that it's there.
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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.
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Real-life experiences will probably end up in my music.
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I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.
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With human beings it could be argued that all music-making is, in essence, grounded in improvisation.
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My passion (for music) never went away. I like to see people enjoying music, watching people dancing, and even tapping their feet. It makes you feel like you're making them feel good.
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I have the best job in the world. I'm able to express myself, and people attach themselves to it if they identify with it. Music certainly is a driving force in my life. There's not a moment where I'm not in it.
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I'm not lazy. I'm just really gifted, only instead of being good at music or math I'm good at sleeping late.
