Music Quotes

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

So when you enjoy the beats, the rock music - maybe even toned down with an orchestra - you are enjoying the spirit of the black race. And that's what I emphasize to the students.

My heart and soul is still music.

And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it.

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.

I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

If you already have a piece of music ingrained in your body, why would you not play it?

I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it.

I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do.

When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

My parents did not have any interest in music.

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music.

So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

I've been informed by both sides, jazz, western music, Asian music, African music, all sides, because I've been interested in the sound of the universe, and that sound is without limit.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

It sounds really arrogant, but my music's my favourite music ever. I prefer it to anyone else's.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

I never played music, but it's an important thing ... the studying, the inspiration.

Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person.

I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture.

I'm really open to doing music. We just have to figure out what kind of music it's going to be - something where I don't feel compromised.

I actually grew up playing the piano in the church and was deeply involved in music ministry.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

Music creates a certain mood and then people dress accordingly. I think it's all quite closely intertwined.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.