I've always had a lot of creative impact on the music with Timbaland. ~By Missy Elliot ~
You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air. ~By Dick York ~
We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big. ~By Carly Simon ~
At one time musical theater, particularly in the '40s and '50s, was a big source of pop songs. That's how musical theater started, really - it was just a way of linking several pop songs for the stage. ~By Neil Tennant ~
I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make. ~By Richard Marx ~
I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. ~By James Taylor ~
I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records. ~By Billy Sherwood ~
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody. ~By Scott Patterson ~
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with. ~By Bruce Springsteen ~
The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do. ~By Billy Higgins ~
If anyone can figure out how to balance my celebrity and my dual careers in music and film, it's me. I don't feel frightened; I feel challenged. ~By Jennifer Lopez ~
I have this massive love for the whole culture of pop music. It's my fascination, my ongoing passion. ~By Siobhan Fahey ~
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it. ~By Gary Wright ~
I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes. ~By Tom Jenkinson ~
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune. ~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. ~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music. ~By Elvis Costello ~
It seems like bluegrass people have more great stories to tell than other musicians. ~By Dan Fogelberg ~
I'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it. ~By John Frusciante ~
Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory. ~By Thomas Beecham ~
The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals. ~By Bruce Beresford ~
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own. ~By Basil Bunting ~
When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty? ~By Branford Marsalis ~
We've worked very hard as a band and would like to think we've got this far on the strength of our music. ~By Caroline Corr ~
Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music. ~By Richard Morris ~
I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical. ~By Delta Burke ~
My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music. ~By Taryn Manning ~
So many of the sounds that contemporary composers were trying to create were to be found in the traditional musics of the world. That was encouraging but also little daunting to think that you had to work so hard to be new and yet it was old. ~By Robert Morris ~
Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. ~By Paul Westerberg ~
There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. ~By Barry White ~
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it. ~By Bill Conti ~
You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can't have a movie without it. ~By Jerry Reed ~
Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role. ~By Jeremy London ~
Musicals are written and then rewritten. Those things used to happen on the road. Now they are done in New York during preview performances. ~By Peter Stone ~
I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it. ~By Duncan Sheik ~
You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell. ~By Brian McKnight ~
Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool. ~By Maynard James Keenan ~
I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour. ~By Vince Neil ~
I also love Dido and Nelly Furtado and people who are really into their music like that. And I love Renee Zellweger. ~By Hilary Duff ~
I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters. ~By Alan Dean Foster ~
I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody. ~By Phil Collins ~
My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life. ~By Elvis Stojko ~
Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score. ~By Michael Tippett ~
There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans. ~By Helen Thomas ~
I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music. ~By Andy Gibb ~
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level. ~By Billy Higgins ~
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same. ~By Zoltan Kodaly ~
The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine. ~By Tina Yothers ~
Music should be your escape. ~By Missy Elliot ~
I'm very influenced by landscapes, not so much the way places look as the way the names sound. In this country we've got so many cultures, and the place names - the Spanish names and the Indian names, which are so incredibly musical. ~By Emmylou Harris ~
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers. ~By Elaine Paige ~
Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music. ~By Peter Tork ~
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music. ~By Maria Mitchell ~
There was the best teachers from the Czech Philharmonic, highly dedicated people, some of the best musicians in the world passing on the knowledge about the country, about the principles, and about the music. ~By Miroslav Vitous ~
Even my family laughed at me because they thought this young guy who's always stuttering in front of other people should be in front of 100 musicians and talk to them and leading them. ~By Kurt Masur ~
If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music. ~By Christo ~
I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano. ~By Gary Oldman ~
You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself. ~By Eric San ~
I never learned to verbalize an abstract musical concept. No thank you. The whole point of being a serious musician is to avoid verbalization whenever you can. ~By Virgil Thomson ~
I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't. ~By Bruce Springsteen ~
Metal is still the biggest music now in America. ~By Sebastian Bach ~
I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow, life is great right now. ~By Brian Austin Green ~
I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing. ~By Richard Thompson ~
To do it always right, that is what music is to me. ~By Chuck Mangione ~
It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said. ~By Lisa Snowdon ~
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. ~By Stanley Crouch ~
When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction. ~By Jonathan Davis ~
And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around. ~By Ashley Judd ~
I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did. ~By Lee Ann Womack ~
If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear. ~By Ray Davies ~
Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ~By Marc Ribot ~
My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together. ~By Boz Scaggs ~
There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone. ~By Dweezil Zappa ~
Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual. ~By Maureen Forrester ~
I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano. ~By Carla Bley ~
I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star. ~By Bryan Adams ~
Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience. ~By Casey Kasum ~
With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things. ~By Tracy Chapman ~
I use music as a medium to talk to people. ~By Sun Ra ~
It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my name listed as producer. ~By Missy Elliot ~
Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation. ~By Ali Akbar Khan ~
I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music. ~By Joan Jett ~
Trying to describe something musical is like dancing to architecture, it's really difficult. ~By Robert Palmer ~
I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody. ~By Lauryn Hill ~
Mozart has written opera, symphony, sacred and chamber music - not to mention his piano and violin concerti. ~By Neville Marriner ~
People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them. ~By John Mayer ~
Music should always be an adventure. ~By Coleman Hawkins ~
I mean, there's a hell of a lot of grounds for protest, but you don't do it through music. ~By Chico Hamilton ~
The only things Mick and I disagree about is the band, the music and what we do. ~By Keith Richards ~
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music. ~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Music has to be written while people are still excited about a particular melodic or rhythmic sequence. The idea doesn't come out the same if we're not really excited about it. ~By Brandon Boyd ~
In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly. ~By Dave Holland ~
Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I've found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food. ~By Steve Albini ~
I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly. ~By Sting ~
I've always said that music is like literature. ~By Jose Carreras ~
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. ~By Bob Marley ~
That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music. ~By Steven Curtis Chapman ~
I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision. ~By Lydia Lunch ~
Musically, I always allow myself to jump off of cliffs. At least that's what it feels like to me. Whether that's what it actually sounds like might depend on what the listener brings to the songs. ~By Tori Amos ~
When I made it, I still didn't wave the flag and say, Yeah go Asian people. I do want people to know that about me, but I always felt like at least musically, let me just do what I do and be the best at it. Which is what I'm doing right now. ~By Chad Hugo ~
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