If I’m not working on music, I’m probably torturing my infant daughter, Ingrid, with kisses or running or playing soccer in the park.
With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Music was the one thing that was just mine, and no one could take it from me. I created it, dictated it, and it made me not able to let go of it.
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
I love that way dance music can put you in a trance.
I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He’s one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I don’t think music should be free.
I haven’t understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there’s some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that’s really important to us, and music is all we’ve really got.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
If I hadn’t had music in my life, it’s quite possible I’d be dead and I’d much rather be alive.
I just want to make music, I don’t want people to talk about me. All I’ve ever wanted to do was sing. I don’t want to be a celebrity. I don’t want to be in people’s faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven’t even known I’m on.
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.
I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago – you’d have to put that into better English for me, thank you – they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes.
Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always dream of yourself better than you are.
When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
Music really transcends languages, and it means so much.
Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.
To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
When I’m working, I’m pretty busy with that, but when I’m not, yeah, I like to make music. I sing in jazz bars and stuff, and then I mainly paint every day. It’s kind of like a different side of my mind I like to use, and it keeps the other one fresh, and yeah, writing, I’ve been writing with some friends.
The music we do is for people to enjoy, dance and sing to it. Dreamers – keep on dreaming and keep working hard to achieve your goals. There are many difficulties, but what matters is to stay focused and have perseverance.
I don’t like rap music at all. I don’t think it’s music. It’s just a beat and rapping.
With the Neal Morse Band, we’re doing progressive music with a harder edge; it’s a little more in Dream Theater territory for me. Flying Colors is a little more poppy, it’s more Radiohead, Muse, and Coldplay territory, so I approach that drumming in a different way.
When there are dogs and music, people have a good time.
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.
Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
I think the impact my music has had on dance music fans is to bring out their inner love for dancing and having a good time.
People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking for friction and energy. They were more like playwrights; they invented characters and wrote a life around them.
Music is really driving my whole life.
‘Let the music play on’ would be my legacy.
The world’s most famous and popular language is music.
I was raised in a Catholic school, and I would always go to church on Sunday, and I would hear the same music over and over and over and over again, same gospels, hymns, everything.
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.
We started out because we love music and dancing.
In many a piece of music, it’s the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And I know I, as a writer, will often try to include a lot of empty space on the page so that the reader can complete my thoughts and sentences and so that her imagination has room to breathe.
My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.
When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.
Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.
You know, music is sex. It’s a sensual driving mode that affects people if it’s played a certain way.
In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
In music the passions enjoy themselves.
I love pop music. It’s not easy to write a good pop song.
Life got very good – we went from living in a one-bedroom apartment to a five-bedroom mansion by the time I was in high school. I had everything I wanted growing up, though all I wanted was music stuff – drums, a PC, turntables.
Atlanta is down south, the club. So the most thing played down there is club music. Everybody wants a hit.
I’m not a musician, but I play music. So it’s a strange thing.
Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form.
I’ve always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
I’m very grateful I went to school to study law, particularly tax law, which really is interesting to me and very useful to me now with my position. Music, however, will always be my number one passion; I like how it connects everyone.
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What’s the buzz on the street with the kids? She’s going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren’t into Kiss. But they’ve all been told that it’s the greatest show on Earth.
I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
When you’re making music, it’s meant to be shared with people. Sometimes, even if I’m writing a song, someone else brings a vibe. There’s something different about it. If someone can play a better bassline than me, I’ll let them do it. I’m just here to fit in and see where it goes.
English is like music. The English language is really fit for singing. The notes match the feelings, and it makes sense.
I see music as fluid architecture.
Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.
Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.
Good music acts a healer, it makes you positive.
For a male artist, people instantly assume they write their own music, but for women, they assume it’s all manufactured.
Our goals, our dreams and ambitions have always been towards performing live music across the globe, and so when we were told we were performing at The Billboard Awards or being nominated for a VMA, they’re like extra bonuses.
Rock and roll is not an instrument. Rock and roll isn’t even a style of music. Rock and roll is a spirit that’s been going since the blues, jazz, bebop, soul, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock and, yes, hip-hop.
