Music Quotes
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The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.
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Forty years ago, my life in music was substantially different to today. I went out every night with my guitar seeking a place to sing, a floor on which to lie, some love, some food, a lot of wine. There was no business, no gigs, no questions, no P.R., recording, life was simpler, I was poor and young and hungry. Today I am a lot more focused on The Song.
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As cliched as it sounds, music is my only form of expression. So I have to be honest with myself, and with that comes being vulnerable.
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I can play, and I know it; I'm not looking for any pats on the back. I don't have to be endorsed by anybody. I make enough to live and eat, and I'm happy with my music-and that's all I need.
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The breadth of Zappa's catalog was unbelievable. He just thought out of the box. His music was different from what everyone else was doing in his day.
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There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.
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No matter what album I’ve ever made or ever will work on, it’s me trying to achieve this feeling I had listening to music when I was 8 years old. Just being mesmerized by the production and the mystique and the stories.
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When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
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Music is for every single person that walks the planet.
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You see, to me, the art of music is listening to it, not playing it. The real art of it is hearing it.
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It's really hard to maintain a band as a democracy. Again, I think there's been a shift. There's a lot of emphasis put on style and a singular personality, as opposed to a more anonymous group of people playing music. It's more about can I dress this person up? Are they going to look pretty? I feel like the cult of personality is back, for sure.
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Music is so essential to the Cuban character that you can't disentangle it from the history of the nation. the history of Cuban music is one of cultural collisions, of voluntary and forced migrations, of religions and revolutions.
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I occasionally meet people and they say, 'Oh, I was born to Discreet Music'... They always have very weird eyes, those people.
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We want people to enjoy our music.
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Everything was happening in the 70s. We were coming out of a period of austerity and things were pretty dark and then punk came along. It taught us that you didn’t need to be a musical virtuoso to start a band – and we certainly were not.
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I think the one thing that never goes away is soul and emotion and vulnerability and finding your strength in our vulnerability. I think when I apply all of that to music, it somehow just ends up being classic. It's the sum of a bunch of things that never go away.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.
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Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.
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My goal with this music is that people feel filled up by it. I hope they have a little bit more hope in their tank when they finish listening to it.
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Music has always been my passion. It was not a hobby or something I can take out of my life.
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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 has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.
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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.
