I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.
~By Talib Kweli ~
It's nice to establish yourself as an actor first and a singer second. Proof is such a tremendous piece of work, and I'm incredibly lucky to be a part of it. I'm sure that the musicals will happen in the future, though.
~By Neil Patrick Harris ~
All music has to speak in some form or other.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
Music allows the great opportunity to play with people who turned you on and you love.
~By Herbie Mann ~
And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.
~By Ruben Blades ~
We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it.
~By Greg Ginn ~
I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band.
~By James Iha ~
The lion's share of what I hear right now are people who, intentional or accidental, have avoided all jazz prior to 1960. And all the musicians who were successful in the '60s spent their entire lives, prior to 1960, listening to all the musicians these people avoid.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.
~By Zac Efron ~
I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
~By Muddy Waters ~
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
We had to do a lot of rehearsals to get it so that it was playable. What it did was make you practice. That's good for any musician to have that kind of pressure. It brings things out of you that might not come out if you don't have to reach for something all the time.
~By Ray Brown ~
Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.
~By Giorgio Moroder ~
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.
~By David McCullough ~
And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice.
~By Kim Gordon ~
Every musician liked Peggy Lee, but not the general public.
~By Mel Ferrer ~
Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.
~By Compay Segundo ~
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.
~By Carly Simon ~
I started out doing musicals.
~By Zooey Deschanel ~
My scratching I don't really think communicates to intelligent life forms. Anyone with more than one brain cell would think Kid Koala music is completely retarded.
~By Eric San ~
It is a wise tune that knows its own father, and I like my music to be the legitimate offspring of respectable parents.
~By Samuel Butler ~
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.
~By William Faulkner ~
If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.
~By John Lurie ~
If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
~By Michael Schenker ~
In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music.
~By Phil Lesh ~
But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.
~By Lotte Lehmann ~
I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.
~By Tupac Shakur ~
Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it.
~By Freddie Hubbard ~
A lot of the songs are written on piano or guitar, so I contribute, and I have done so since the beginning. So it's been good to be involved completely musically as well.
~By Caroline Corr ~
To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light.
~By Joseph Gordon-Levitt ~
Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
~By Salman Rushdie ~
The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success.
~By Lucien Bouchard ~
So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.
~By Warren Jeffs ~
Music is all about wanting to be better at it.
~By Geddy Lee ~
My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
~By Brian Eno ~
Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.
~By Amanda Seyfried ~
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.
~By Sebastian Bach ~
Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house.
~By Warren Cuccurullo ~
I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on.
~By Ben E. King ~
I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets.
~By Spike Lee ~
The intentions of record companies are not good, from the musician's perspective.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
~By Duke Ellington ~
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
~By Sheena Easton ~
I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it.
~By Janet Jackson ~
That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music.
~By David Amram ~
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.
~By Malcolm Arnold ~
I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually.
~By Marc Newson ~
The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.
~By Lesley Garrett ~
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
I grew up mostly with classical, big band, and a lot of Irish music - I really didn't start listening to rock and roll until I was maybe sixteen.
~By Moira Kelly ~
That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there.
~By Alan Vega ~
From the time I moved to San Francisco in 1967 to play with the Steve Miller Band, there was a lot of support in the music community for one cause or another, but this one was special because it was put on by people who understood where musicians' hearts are.
~By Boz Scaggs ~
The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.
~By Shania Twain ~
They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time.
~By Micky Dolenz ~
I would like to win the Pulitzer Prize. I would like to win the Nobel Prize. I would like to win a Tony award for the Broadway musical I'm now working on. Aside from these, my aspirations are modest ones.
~By Evan Hunter ~
When I'm dead, I want to be remembered as a musician of some worth and substance.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
I've made a life and career as a professional musician.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
Music has a poetry of its own, and that poetry is called melody.
~By Joshua Logan ~
That's Tommy, this great producer who comes in contact with people and must have a mental library of personnel who are great for this and great for that, and he brought this whole group of musicians to the project that I'd never worked with before.
~By Al Jarreau ~
First of all, I think that is true, if you are a musician, particularly on the come, that you do have to end up in one of these musical centers, some way, to be viable, saleable and so on.
~By John Sebastian ~
I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.
~By Mike Figgis ~
I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.
~By Ed O'Brien ~
But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean.
~By Michael Tilson Thomas ~
Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.
~By Henry Flynt ~
The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
~By Claude Debussy ~
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
~By Arto Lindsay ~
Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!
~By Nathan Lane ~
In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.
~By Chris Barber ~
Now I listen to all kinds of music except rap, which all sounds the same to me.
~By Moira Kelly ~
I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it.
~By Daniel Johns ~
Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards.
~By Peter Tork ~
Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.
~By Carter Burwell ~
The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
We all have such common ways to identify with each other, and I think when you approach music in that organic way, it's almost indescribable how it connects human to human and heart to heart.
~By Debby Boone ~
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
~By Alan Parsons ~
At first it was a bit daunting, but once I started to do it, the more I got into it, the more I started enjoying it and being able to say things lyrically that I would normally have to say musically.
~By Jimmy Chamberlin ~
We all sing about the things we're thinking; musicals are about expressing those emotions that you can't talk about. It works a real treat.
~By Anthony Head ~
Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them.
~By Charles Gounod ~
I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
~By Jimmy Page ~
The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening.
~By Peter Tork ~
Let's keep the music with us. We'll always have it.
~By Krist Novoselic ~
The music scene is more competitive in the States.
~By Dexter Gordon ~
When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation.
~By Jim Messina ~
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
~By Bill Wyman ~
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.
~By Rick Derringer ~
Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
~By Benny Green ~
I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.
~By Michael Giles ~
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
~By Gary Wright ~
Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.
~By Michael Apted ~
Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness, I think, only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11, unfortunately it's gone.
~By Andrea Corr ~
We've got many different sides of music to us.
~By John Otto ~
Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.
~By Sean Paul ~
In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.
~By David Amram ~
Madonna is a pro. I don't like her and have no respect for her but- I don't think she should be called a musician or a dancer or whatever you know, but I do have, well I do have respect for her ability to completely manipulate the media and have them work for her.
~By Jon Fishman ~
Yes, indeed, in fact I would tell you that we go out of our way to be true to the original feeling and sort of sonic and musical pallet that we painted with back then.
~By James Young ~
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