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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Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.
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In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.
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To be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.
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I've spent, like, over a million dollars on that Superficial album, so you will not be getting new music from me unless you'd like to GoFundMe.
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For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music.
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I don’t know that liner note writing is a career, especially in this age of digital music, where the deluxe packages that marked the CD era have become ever more rare.
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Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
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The hurt is the place where the music enters you.
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I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).
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Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.
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Music can happen with equal ease as a solo or collaborative venture, it seems to me.
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I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.
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A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?
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Acting - I'm good at it, but it's not my passion. Music, I'm not as good at, but that's my passion. I think I'm just going to go with the flow, wait until one picks up, and take the opportunities one at the time.
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The peculiar characteristic of classical music is that it is really better than it sounds.
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When The B-52s started in the late '70s, music and the business was totally different. Obviously, it's easier for everyone to be able to work with music, record, and get good quality.
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For me, getting my personality across is so important in getting that connection for people that enjoy my music.
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Just like there's a hole in the ozone layer, there's a hole in the musical ecological layer wrt lack of successful "conscious" music... 'Traditional' music was brand new at one time... When you hear R&B today, do you believe it?
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Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure.
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Even though I started playing the violin when I was four, my early chamber music experiences helped build a strong foundation for my solo work, as all music is a rich language and dialogue that is shared on stage, no matter what the size of the ensemble.
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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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You should create music which comes from within and not bother about anything else.
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For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.
