Words matter. These are the best World Music Quotes from famous people such as Boy George, Dean Wareham, Luis Fonsi, Serj Tankian, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My audience here in America is so eclectic. It’s a real mix of people, which is great. Like what I was doing with Culture Club – world music, multiculturalism – not defining everything in terms of sexuality or color. It was about everyone coming together and being part of something.
Rock is periodically pronounced dead by clear rock critics – killed by world music, or by hip-hop, or electronica, or the Backstreet Boys. But if you wait a year, it comes back to life.
Just when you think we’re living in a little bit of a divided world, music brings us together.
In the last few years I’ve been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.
I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.
I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what’s inspiring me. I’ll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
‘Open Door’ was a world music project and bilingual. It was in Hebrew and English, and it’s great. I do think it’s really beautiful. But it’s very emotional and very dark – in a good way.
When you are busy with all the live shows and bands, world music and jazz music, it takes time to come back and do a pop album. It needs its own length of time.
There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
I listen to world music a lot.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
At a time when club music has gone more electronic, I’ve gone the other way: organic and world music.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it’s third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it’s much more polite.
Music bears a great responsibility because it is so influential. Everybody listens to music. It is a very influential tool. To me, it is very important to the world… music is… to being… to life.
English and world music were something that I had immense love for, and to get together with a fellow Indian and bring this sound and vibe to the world feels great.
World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together – which is great.
Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.
Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
I was in punk rock bands, heavy metal bands, world music bands, jazz groups, any type of music that would take me. I just love music.
