909 private quotes tagged music

“From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.” — John Philip Sousa

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“The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right.” — Scott Stapp

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“Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.” — Hans Hofmann

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“Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.” — Rod Stewart

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“Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.” — Ray Charles

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“I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.” — James Taylor

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“I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.” — Toru Takemitsu

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“These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.” — Felix Mendelssohn

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“I've sung other people's music all my life.” — Adam Lambert

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“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.” — Jam Master Jay

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“I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.” — Rod Stewart

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“Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.” — Kristin Hersh

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“I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.” — Ice T

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“Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.” — Dave Lombardo

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“There's an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim - the album with 'The Girl From Ipanema.' That's the most seductive music ever.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“I practice and work hard at my music, but I'm not saving lives here.” — Harry Connick, Jr.

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“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.

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“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

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“But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music's got these bars and measures you know.” — Sun Ra

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“I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.” — R. Kelly

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“I'm very inspired by past music.” — Adam Lambert

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“Music is what I love to do it's in my veins.” — Demi Lovato

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“Pop is a little bit theatrical. That's the whole vibe. That's the point - is that it's great music, great melodies, great hooks. But, on top of it, it's a presentation. There's a showmanship about it. And that's why I wanted to be a pop star.” — Adam Lambert

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“In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.” — Adam Lambert

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“Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened.” — Archie Shepp

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