- We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.
- We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
- Billy Joel on Music
- We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dream.
- Arthur O'Shaughnessy on Music
- We don't make music - it makes us.
- David Byrne on Music
- We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It's just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.
- Barry White on Music
- We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans' musicians. It is called the Musicians' Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
- Harry Connick, Jr. on Music
- We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.
- Henry Miller on Music
- We talk a lot on 'Biggest Loser' about how fitness is a natural antidepressant, how it burns off stress. What I like about running is that it gives me time alone. I'm always busy, with people at work, with my kids. I love getting out for a run by myself and just listening to my music.
- Alison Sweeney on Music
- We tend to mistake music for the physical object.
- David Byrne on Music
- We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
- Leonard Cohen on Music
- We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.
- Francis Ford Coppola on Music
- We're a bit flashy, but the music's not one big noise.
- Freddie Mercury on Music
- We're five people, five individuals who came together to create something, to make music and to complete each other musically, to form a perfect circle.
- Maynard James Keenan on Music
- We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.
- Eddie Van Halen on Music
- We're not trying to change the world just music.
- Jonathan Davis on Music
- We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us.
- Jerry Garcia on Music
- We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.
- Dan Hawkins on Music
- Well, I'll tell you, I don't know how aware teenagers are of me. I think it really depends on the teenager and how well-versed in music they are and what kind of music they like.
- Well-written words are music.
- William Shatner on Music
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided in advance that they don't like it.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Music
- What I know is my music gets blamed for school shootings.
- Marilyn Manson on Music
- What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
- Karl Lagerfeld on Music
- What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh.
- Pete Townshend on Music
- What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.
- Norah Jones on Music
- What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive.
- Pete Townshend on Music
- What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
- What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
- Soren Kierkegaard on Music
- What is music anyway? It's a form of communication, and that's why I play the kind of music that I think - that I hope - can communicate with people.
- What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
- Gertrude Stein on Music
- What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
- Ray Charles on Music
- What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.
- Charley Pride on Music
- What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
- David Ogden Stiers on Music
- What's missing from pop music is danger.
- When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
- Eric Clapton on Music
- When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
- Jimi Hendrix on Music
- When I grew up, what was interesting for me was that music was color and life was gray. So music for me has always been more than entertainment.
- Pete Townshend on Music
- When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
- Henry David Thoreau on Music
- When I listen to music these days, and I hear Pro Tools and drums that sound like a machine - it kinda sucks the life out of music.
- Dave Grohl on Music
- When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.
- Jonathan Davis on Music
- When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
- Billy Joel on Music
- When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
- Norah Jones on Music
- When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
- Robert Plant on Music
- When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
- Morgan Freeman on Music
- When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
- Billy Joel on Music
- When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Music
- When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
- Maria Callas on Music
- When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
- E. W. Howe on Music
- When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
- Jerry Saltz on Music
- When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Music
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