Music Quotes
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I'm a lover of all sorts of music, which makes me a chameleon when it comes to performing anything, whether it's opera or whatever. As long as it's good and it feels good, I'm going to cling to it.
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I would say that I'm more than just a teeny-bopper artist... that my music can appeal to people of all ages.
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The world's most famous and popular language is music.
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I wanted to be a cheerleader, like my sister was - all the most popular and beautiful girls are cheerleaders and I wanted that, and it demolished this vision of myself. That's when I found the piano, when music saved me; that's when I first attempted to write my own songs.
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I don't know that there is a, quote, 'hip-hop lifestyle.' I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
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The rappers have gone in and created a lot of hit music based upon my influence. And they'll tell you if you ask.
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I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
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I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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My music is very innovative, in a class by itself. Nobody else is saying anything of value. What I'm trying to do is get people to think, to alter their consciousness. It's not your typical platinum formula for success.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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When I became a 'rock musician,' I assumed pop music was easy to write and that interesting rock music, or alternative music, was hard. It was only later I realised that writing a pop song is the hardest thing musically.
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.
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I never met Johnny Cash personally, but I feel like I did because I listened to so much of his music, and even though he's gone, it's still there: you can go pull a vinyl record out and hear his personal thoughts and his voice and feel connected to him.
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We want people to listen to records, to a whole body of music. I want you to buy into my life, not just one subject in my life.
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The music has a better feeling when you're responding to what's going on. Music is like playing handball, playing catch with someone, not playing golf. Everywhere the ball bounces is where you respond to it.
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I love social media and Tik Tok but also .. sometimes it kinda sucks that it’s the only way to promo music these days .. I’d rather spend my time making music than trying to make 15 second videos online ..
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I love people and people watching. I love music. I am intrigued by musicians more than I am actors. I have a bigger respect for them.
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Literature is the noblest of all the arts. Music dies on the air, or at best exists only as a memory; oratory ceases with the effort; the painter's colors fade and the canvas rots; the marble is dragged from its pedestal and is broken into fragments.
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I think every Dutch person has a connection with dance music.
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When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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When I have to score a film, I watch the movie first and then start thinking about it. And from that moment on, it is as if I were pregnant. I then have to deliver the child, so from that moment on, I think always about the music - even when I go to the grocery store, I think about it.
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Everyone assumes it is just 'Wendy who works at Tesco' who goes to audition for 'X Factor,' and then their lives are changed, wham, like that. Me, I am someone who has tried for years in the music industry.
