Music Is Quotes - Page 20

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Music is a big gift opportunity.We have to have our best offers disposed to capitalize on that.

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

Music is for sharing with people.

The music is huge. I consider it a privilege to do what I do, turn people on to music and tell them about issues.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives, it's essential for our lives.

I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.

Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.

I think that the process of making music is a hard one to describe as well.

Popular music of the last 50 years has failed to keep in step with advances in musical theater, namely Stephen Sondheim. But the two have grown apart so that popular music is based more than ever on a rhythmic grid that is irrelevant in musical theater. In popular music, words matter less and less. Especially now that it's so international, the fewer words the better. While theater music becomes more and more confined to a few blocks in midtown.

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Music is a universal language.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

Making music is mostly spontaneously following sounds you find compelling that you chase and see where they're leading you.

The translator has to be a good writer. The translator has to hear music too. And it might not be exactly your music because the translator needs to translate the music. And so, that is what you are hoping for: a translator who gets what you are doing but who also gets all the ways in which it won't work in the new language.

Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.

I don't like talking about myself; I like to let the music be the spokesperson for me. So doing a memoir and all that chronological 'and then this happened and then blah blah' doesn't appeal to me that much. I think there's more mystique in what you don't know about.

The classical music is soothing and stimulating, good for thinking.

I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener.

My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.