- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Music Quotes
Quotes on music and creative calling.
These quotes describe music as near-constant background for some, and as a true calling for others - one line simply states a feeling of being destined for it. A few discuss resisting one narrow sound in favor of exploring many styles. Related reading includes Funny Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music.
- Public
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- Nov 07, 2020
The public doesn't want new music.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I use music as therapy. Whenever I'm feeling angry or needing some 'me' time, which is quite regularly, I'll go and bang a piano or flesh out something on a guitar.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate this idea in the Cinematheque that you must watch silent movies with no music, like it's a piece of art. It's not true.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.
- Classic Rock
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was enamored with music at a very young age. Everything started with kundiman, then evolved to Carpenters, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, and eventually classic rock music.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fans at our shows in Tokyo love music so much; they're amazing. They give a kind of energy and adrenaline that builds us up when we play.
- Fans
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have too much respect for the music and for the band and the fans to give anything less than my best.
- Painting
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- Nov 07, 2020