Music Quotes

When I do the music, I make the musicians listen to what's happening in the film. That way they treat the dialogue as if it was a singer.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher?

I like the fact that music is more abstract.

I didn't really want to give up music.

All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. They dress up in these chains of gold, cars, girls and this and that, high-heeled shoes.

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

In my model, important interference phenomena arise when individual strata come into contact. These chaotic fluctuations are, I suppose, what my music is really 'about.'

Even if there were no illegal copying, the advent of digital distribution will put a lot of stress on the movie and music industry. When the distribution costs comes down, that puts more price pressure on the rest of the cost.

Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

I never feel that my music is sparse or minimalist; the way fat people never really think they're fat. I certainly don't consider myself minimalist at all.

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

He's a world-famous name to people who care about his music, but there are many people who have never heard of George Gershwin and those numbers increase.

As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate.

Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.

I write contemporary rock with Jane's. And I also write house music with people like Kascade.

I didn't grow up watching film but as a Ukrainian-American, music and stories and dance are crucial.

I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you.

Even if the music industry simply gave away all their music people would complain that they don't have the bandwidth to download all the stuff - the problem would merely shift from availability to distribution.

Often times, music is used to evoke an emotion and it's become a cliche, so I don't want to do that, and actually what I do, is that emotional intensity that has developed throughout the film, I allow it to get released by having that music at the end with the credits.

Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one.

The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI.

Suckle was the first West Indian DJ and he had this fantastic source of music.

I'd do entire music videos in my bedroom, where I used to stand in front of my television memorizing the moves to Michael Jackson's 'Beat It.'

I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

I consider the Stooges to be pop music.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.