Music Quotes
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Improvisation is the art of becoming sound. It is the only art in which a human being can and must become the music he or she is making. Improvisation is the only musical art which predicated entirely on human trust and love.
Alvin Curran
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You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.
Evan Peters
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Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.
Michael Jackson
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Our audience, it has been a more difficult process for classical music audiences around the world, and I'm not completely certain why.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Music defines decades, and quite clearly shapes the rhythm, vitality of fashion, attitude and social behaviors. The anthology, just like most of my work, from photography to fashion design, is about and around music.
Hedi Slimane
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The point of my music is to make people feel good. When I do it right, it makes me feel good too.
Willy Mason
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People digest and process music differently, and I'm sure that was the case even when I was a kid.
Ed Droste
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Commercial directing felt like a very natural transition from my comedy, sketch, music video directing experience.
Milana Vayntrub
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I think every film is made better by having smart music supervision that's really in tune with the spirit of the visual content.
John Roger Stephens
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
Ginger Baker Cream
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My goal was to play 350-capacity rooms in the U.K. and, if I was lucky, 100-capacity rooms in Europe. I just wanted to play music and make money off it.
Lewis Capaldi
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I had a couple of really cool friends when I was a kid, and we'd find cool music and movies and show them to each other. My friend Dennis had a copy of 'A Clockwork Orange' and he'd already seen it once, and he was like, 'We need to watch this.' I was sleeping over his house - and I think we were literally 15 - and we watched it.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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If you don't feel comfortable talking about really personal things in your music, you shouldn't do it. There's plenty of other things to write about.
Lewis Capaldi
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I can understand why it takes some people a long time to really be a singer. You have to find out, 'Why am I singing? What am I doing this for?' I do it because I enjoy it, and philosophically, music is a catalyst. It's a refining agent.
Harry Dean Stanton
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I feel that music is more flexible than language and your song, or "piece" is only as flexible as your least flexible component.
Brian Chippendale
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My music is - I don't want to say my main focus, but it's what comes most naturally to me.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
Delbert McClinton
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So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
Catherynne M. Valente
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What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.
Gerry Mulligan
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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.
Cass McCombs
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The first time I played in front of a live audience, I realised I wanted to be a musician. I was about four years old and had always liked music.
Lewis Capaldi
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He appeared to enjoy beyond everything the sound of his own voice. I couldn't wonder at that, for it was mellow and full and gave great importance to every word he uttered. He listened to himself with obvious satisfaction and sometimes gently beat time to his own music with his head or rounded a sentence with his hand.
Charles Dickens
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Music in Rocky has always been pivotal.
Bun B