Dance music is an emotional journey. It’s how well you can make people feel something that they haven’t felt.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
My first year making music was very experimental. I was trying to find my sound. My second year, I was more in my element. I knew what type of production I wanted to go over and the topics I wanted to address.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
There’s nothing better than live music. It’s raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
If you’re only a fan of the old music, that music’s gonna wind up sounding even older.
Beats succeeded because, as music lovers, we knew oscilloscopes don’t buy headphones – people do.
Good soul music should make you feel something in your heart, in your body, and in your spirit. That’s what I try to do both in the studio and on stage.
Music is love in search of a word.
The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.
For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me.
Music and art and culture is escapism, and escapism sometimes is healthy for people to get away from reality. The problem is when they stay there.
I’m a DJ who makes dance music who got to play with Sting.
Both the Beatles and The Rolling Stones broke on the music scene the summer I was in England. I can vividly remember hearing ‘She Loves You’ in August 1963.
To me, John Lennon and Elvis Presley were punks, because they made music that evoked those emotions in people.
I am a big fan of music in general. I listen to all genres: hip-hop, R&B, whatever sounds good to me; it doesn’t matter to me where it comes from – there are no boundaries, no fences. If I like it, then it will inspire me to create.
I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.
Clothes are like a good meal, a good movie, great pieces of music.
Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune.
That’s the amazing thing about music: there’s a song for every emotion. Can you imagine a world with no music? It would suck.
Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life… That’s a superpower I’ve been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
Music’s not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
Music is an expression of individuality; it’s how you see the world. All art is, for that matter. You take how you experience the world, interpret it, and send it out there – express it – whether it’s sculpture, dance or singing.
Art, whatever form it takes, requires hard work, craftsmanship and creativity. As a writer, I know my grammar, cadence, the music of prose, and the art of the narrative.
The equipment doesn’t matter, it’s the vibe you put into it. If the music sounds good, music sounds good.
Music is the expression of the movement of the waters, the play of curves described by changing breezes.
Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.
I got lost in the music in 1963 at Stonewall… No! No, it was Stonewall – it was 1967 that I got lost. In 19 – oh my dear, Stonewall, I got lost at Stonewall. Heard it through the grapevine. 1969! I got lost in the music and I couldn’t get out.
This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.
‘The Beatles’ did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Music has always been a huge part of my life from a very young age, and today it remains a very powerful and natural way for me to connect with people, as well as my children.
Music is my first love.
Jazz to me is a living music. It’s a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.
As a DJ, people expect a certain sound and a certain danceability for the music. As a producer, I really like to let go of any rules that may exist.
Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
We will come back with even better music and concepts to be able to say goodbye to ‘The Most Beautiful Moment in Life’ beautifully.
Living in a capital in Europe but still surrounded by mountains and ocean, my relationship to music was strongest walking to school and back. I would sing to myself and very quickly started mapping out my melodies to landscapes – at the time I just thought it was very matter of fact, a common thing to do.
My idea of my music is constantly changing so I feel like how other people react to my old songs just ends up putting more pressure on myself from my own perspective.
Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.
If you have a good music tone of the day, it puts everybody in the right mindset.
When music is allowed to take the place of devotion and prayer, it is a terrible curse. Young people assemble together to sing, and, although professed Christians, frequently dishonor God and their faith by their frivolous conversation and their choice of music.
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.
Great music is in the ear of the beholder.
I don’t really have a favorite genre. I could listen to a rock song, a metal song, jazz, pop music, whatever. For me, whatever style it is, it always depends on the chord progression, the lyrics, and the melody used.
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
My mother insisted that I pursue music. I rented out my father’s musical equipment and earned some money. As a child, I wasn’t sure about a career goal, but I was always fascinated by electronic gadgets, specially musical equipment.
A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.
All music is folk music. I ain’t never heard a horse sing a song.
I like lots of Korean music that most people have probably never heard of. I also enjoy hip hop.
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.
I’m a Christian, a wife, a mother, a homeschooler, a conservative, a citizen journalist, a talk radio host, an insatiable music nerd who plays a poor rhythm guitar, a blogger, a proud granddaughter of a sailor, and a proud tea partier in awe of the potential and the people in this movement.
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
Nobody picked up guns in those days. You put on music, and it made you feel great.
In general, what fans talk about and think about become a very important source of inspiration to us, because we want to write something that’s real to people, especially those who listen to BTS music.
Nothing is written in stone. So don’t prepare yourself for a long and lucrative career. You might die tomorrow. Your gold holdings might become dust. Just make the music you want to make now and enjoy it.
Beyond a certain point, the music isn’t mine anymore. It’s yours.
The reflection of the world is blues, that’s where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that’s tryin’ to come around.
The best thing about being a DJ is making people happy. There is nothing like seeing people get up from a table to dance or the expression on their face when they hear a song they love. I also love to educate people on music they have never heard.
Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.
