Music Quotes

My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.

I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV.

Even before Europe was united in an economic level or was conceived at the level of economic interests and trade, it was culture that united all the countries of Europe. The arts, literature, music are the connecting link of Europe.

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

I like loud music. I like music that fills my ears. I'm just going to pull out my iPod and see what we got here. We're always interested in new bands because we have a retail store in northern California. I think it's got to be happy.

Certainly, jazz has become more of a niche, which is surprising, because it's our music. It's the national music of America.

I've spent hours and hours doing research into Appalachian folk music. My grandfather was a fiddler. There is something very immediate, very simple and emotional, about that music.

Then came the choreography... the impact of music and choreography tends to really emphasize an overall feeling of what you really want out of the program.

Fleetwood Mac were really accessible musically, but lyrically and emotionally, we weren't so easy. And it was our music that helped us survive. But all of us were in pieces personally.

I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything.

So it doesn't have to be happy music to be inspiring.

I think the Flecktones are a mixture of acoustic and electronic music with a lot of roots in folk and bluegrass as well as funk and jazz.

I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.

I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records.

I didn't know how well my first album had done; it was enough to get me to do the second album, which was a continuation of the music I'd worked on and perfected.

The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence.

I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music.

Older audiences are hard to win over. They're very specific in their tastes and critical of new music.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

I always feel like music should be a universal language.

Canada can be tough for urban music.

Bob Marley is one of the most recognized artists. He didn't care to be defined. People wondered, 'Is it reggae? Is it rock?' But at the end of the day they were still playing his music and that's what matters.

There are some songs where I'll have had the music for 20 years and then finally the lyric will come through. That's not common but it does happen. Then there are other songs that come really quickly.

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

When you start playing music when you're quite young, it's easy to stay young. And then you're touring, and you see people who've been on the road for 10 or 15 years and they just haven't grown up at all.