Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.
~By Paul Westerberg ~
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
~By Claude Debussy ~
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
~By George Takei ~
Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity.
~By Walter Mosley ~
I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.
~By Nick Cave ~
You could say that everything the musicians have learned and known over the years, all of their technical resources, are in a dialogue with the things they are discovering every time, as if it was the first time.
~By Fred Frith ~
I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music.
~By Lil' Kim ~
I was bred and raised in a multi-cultural music background.
~By Coco Lee ~
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
~By Joan Armatrading ~
We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it.
~By Joel Madden ~
I think there's something strangely musical about noise.
~By Trent Reznor ~
My dad was a musician, it was just what he did, like another guy's dad drives a meat truck. Our house was normal. We weren't taken with the fact our dad was a musician.
~By Branford Marsalis ~
What is the best music is impossible to define. Just because it's played by a virtuoso player, doesn't mean it's great music. It might not reflect the soul of a people, which is really my criteria for great music.
~By Mickey Hart ~
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.
~By John Frusciante ~
I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style.
~By Marc Almond ~
I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.
~By Maynard James Keenan ~
Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.
~By David Johansen ~
But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.
~By Neil Innes ~
For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music.
~By Amy Grant ~
The musicians I respected were much older than me. I expected them to cut my head, and they did.
~By Wynton Marsalis ~
Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy.
~By Lukas Foss ~
I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.
~By Alan Jackson ~
In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous.
~By Archie Shepp ~
Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit.
~By Casey Kasum ~
The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.
~By Yo-Yo Ma ~
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook.
~By Minnie Driver ~
They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.
~By Jay McShann ~
No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
~By Trey Parker ~
I like to dance and sing when there's no one around, but, if I'm out, I'm really shy about it. So it takes a lot to get me going, but I enjoy being around music.
~By Derek Jeter ~
I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music.
~By Melissa Auf der Maur ~
There is one thing that freezes a musician more than the deadliest physical cold, and that is the spiritual chill of an unresponsive audience!
~By John Philip Sousa ~
Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.
~By Warren Zevon ~
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business.
~By Loretta Lynn ~
I was approached by Oxfam to go to Mali as their ambassador and get involved in their various initiatives out there. But I felt that was missing the point of using me, a musician.
~By Damon Albarn ~
Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music.
~By Missy Elliot ~
No one else in our family was a professional musician so this took an enormous leap of faith on their part.
~By Tony Visconti ~
When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
~By Morgan Freeman ~
Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.
~By Reba McEntire ~
I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12.
~By Johnny Winter ~
I'll come in with a string of riffs and direct the musical ideas. But you still need a band and their input to make the ideas come alive. You can't underestimate band chemistry.
~By Billy Corgan ~
I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure.
~By Don Bluth ~
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
~By Geddy Lee ~
I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s.
~By Kenneth Koch ~
People see my current success but don't realize I've worked hard to get where I am. I used to clean garbage off the Philadelphia docks and put a lot of time into developing my music.
~By Kevin Eubanks ~
Don't know about a cabaret act right now, would actually prefer a role in a broadway musical.
~By Julia Barr ~
By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.
~By Lawrence Welk ~
I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be.
~By Tim McGraw ~
I believe that there are still people who believe that game music is something equal to just an effect incorporated into the game, something like a BGM. And therefore this is something that I would like to show that is not true.
~By Nobuo Uematsu ~
I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.
~By Brian Eno ~
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.
~By Phillips Brooks ~
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind.
~By Chico Hamilton ~
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 ~
Music is a performance and needs the audience.
~By Michael Tippett ~
I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.
~By Don Ellis ~
It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me.
~By Geezer Butler ~
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 ~
I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.
~By Joan Jett ~
Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?
~By Igor Stravinsky ~
If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?
~By Keith Jarrett ~
You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.
~By Steve Lacy ~
What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
~By Pete Townshend ~
Acting kind of pays my bills more than music does.
~By Marla Sokoloff ~
But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist.
~By Marc Almond ~
And I'm always interested when other musicians are trying to discover new worlds of sound.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?
~By Jamie Foxx ~
I began to think, now is the time. I found quite a lot of opposition in Hollywood about the idea of doing a film musical and we ended up having to buy the rights back. I'm glad we did because it meant John and I were able to make exactly the movie we wanted.
~By Andrew Lloyd Webber ~
I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.
~By Richard Price ~
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music.
~By James Marsters ~
We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time.
~By Daniel Johns ~
The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.
~By Kenneth Edmonds ~
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
~By Nick Cannon ~
When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.
~By Johnny Winter ~
The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
~By Greg Lake ~
By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum.
~By Steve Albini ~
How can German music not be represented by an article?
~By Wassily Kandinsky ~
I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
~By Dan Hawkins ~
So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns.
~By Terry Riley ~
The collective conscience of a hundred musicians is no light burden. Think for a moment of what it would mean to a pianist if by some miracle every key of his instrument should suddenly become a living thing.
~By Charles Munch ~
I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you're a musician, a writer, an athlete or a businessman, there is no getting around it. If you do, you'll win - if you don't, you won't.
~By Bruce Jenner ~
Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.
~By Faith Hill ~
Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.
~By Miguel De Cervantes ~
Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.
~By Toru Takemitsu ~
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 ~
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
I think it's important to really press on with the song writing and just go with it. There's no code, there's no craft... it's just let yourself shine through your music. If it's meant to be loved and heard, it'll happen.
~By Chantal Kreviazuk ~
Country music belongs to America.
~By Bill Monroe ~
My music is about the journey, about love and the human experience.
~By Wynonna Judd ~
If you had ever heard my album you would know that I could never consider the music business!
~By Dwayne Hickman ~
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
~By Brownie McGhee ~
I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
~By Malcolm Wilson ~
Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
~By Pat Conroy ~
He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
~By Albert Einstein ~
There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
~By Thomas Mann ~
I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.
~By Tom Jenkinson ~
It is never easy for anyone to have success in music.
~By Billy Sheehan ~
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