Music Quotes

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teena

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids! The judges were like, 'Very interesting inte

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me.

I have pictures of me sitting in the racquetball court in my pajamas with an acoustic guitar, and Wolfgang is probably just two-and-a-half-feet tall. I'll never forget the day I saw his foot tapping along in beat! I knew then, I couldn't wait for the day I'd be able to make music with my son. I don'

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

Music is a dialogue.

When you leave the planet, you leave music behind.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

I'm preparing for a multimedia theater piece, Airport Music, that's coming up in New York City.

I don't believe in sampling some Tibetan music just to make it sound groovy, but you do your homework, you understand what you're doing with it.

I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it.

The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything.

The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself.

Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice.

I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.