909 private quotes tagged music

“I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping.” — Nina Simone

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“I just want to keep making music, recording and trying different things. I don't want to do the same thing all the time.” — Norah Jones

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“I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.” — Antonio Banderas

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“And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“I think there are unseen powers who don't want pop music to be anything other than glorified Madonnas.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.” — James Taylor

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“I don't care what people say. My music's, my music.” — Enrique Iglesias

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“I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.” — Diane Kruger

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“I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.” — Diane Kruger

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“I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind.” — Tomas Luis de Victoria

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“I think that is what film and art and music do they can work as a map of sorts for your feelings.” — Bruce Springsteen

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“I've never intended to be controversial, but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“I find that it isn't wise to attempt to judge people on their public persona, and even on the music they make. Because I've met so many people whose music I cannot stand, and they're very nice. At the same time, I've met people whose music I've loved, and they're not the person you've invested all this emotion in.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.” — Baruch Spinoza

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“I've only been to Ireland once, and I felt I would wake up with voices in my head, almost like music, and that if I were a songwriter, I would be very inspired.” — Steven Patrick Morrissey

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“The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.” — Lawrence Welk

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“Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.” — James Taylor

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“This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.” — Samuel Goldwyn

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“Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.” — Boethius

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“The business side of film has goofed up so many things, but even that's changing. It happened to the music industry and now it's happening to the film studios. It's crazy what's going on. But artists should have control of their work especially if, as I always say, you never turn down a good idea and never take a bad idea.” — David Lynch

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“Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?” — Jay-Z

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“I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.” — Marilyn Manson

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“I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.” — Michelle Branch

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“I've noticed a lot of younger artists have less fear of doing different sorts of things, whether it's various types of music, or gallery artists moving between video and sculpture and drawing.” — David Byrne

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