Music Quotes
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My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let's unify; let's show more love.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music.
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My sound is, at its core, a mix of things. Definitely an imperfect mix, but one that incorporates elements of the music I love - a bit of indie rock, super rhythmic rapping, and lots of synths.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I don't listen to music throughout the day very often. I don't own a record player. I don't really have a stereo system. Most of the music I listen to these days is on the web or on MySpace pages, stuff like that.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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Please write music like Wagner, only louder.
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In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men’s behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction
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You can consciously make a difference with music. Bob Marley is one of those few artists that everyone can say that they love. He makes you feel good. It's very real.
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The music of the Clovers and Spaniels and the rest was like candy to me. I couldn't get enough; my teachers probably thought I had attention deficit disorder.
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They don't like their generation's music, so they find some that they do like!
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Jazz is really 20th-century fusion music. You take West African harmony and rhythm, mix with European harmony, and boom!
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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'Dear Mama' is my favorite song from Tupac, man. It touches you, and I think that that's the most important thing with music.
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I love Jonathan Richman - I love a lot of his music, and the thing I really like about him is his attitude. He seems very happy, and the way he performs is like, 'Don't worry, everybody, just get into it. I'm just having fun; I like when you guys are having fun.'
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Music and fashion are a sign of the times and a reflection of what people want and need at this very day and age.
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People should listen to my music because it's good.
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The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do.
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I hope in general that my music allows somebody to follow what they really like doing.
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I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.
