909 private quotes tagged music

“I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.” — Norah Jones

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“I don't stop. It's my nature. People have to tell me to slow down. I plan on playing every role on Broadway. I want to do 'Evita.' I want to do 'Sweeney Todd' with Chris Colfer. We want to do 'Wicked.' I'll be Elphaba and he wants to play 'Guy-linda.' I want to do movies, make music. 'Glee' is only the beginning.” — Lea Michele

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“Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible.” — Amanda Seyfried

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“Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.” — Felix Mendelssohn

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“I'm a Cancerian, the typical crab with the tough outer shell and the soft bit in the middle. I don't think I'll ever come to terms with people being unnecessarily nasty, but I can take it if someone doesn't like my music - I'm not everyone's cup of tea.” — Katherine Jenkins

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“Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.” — Rainn Wilson

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“I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds.” — Dizzy Gillespie

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“My music must reflect whatever's going on in my mind, and my life needs to evolve for me to discover who it is I'm becoming.” — Shania Twain

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“Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.” — Maynard James Keenan

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“Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.” — Tony Snow

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“Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.” — Bobby Vinton

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“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.” — Temple Grandin

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“At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.” — Satyajit Ray

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“Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.” — Trey Anastasio

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“Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.” — Fiona Apple

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“I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.” — Ani DiFranco

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“Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.” — Wayne Coyne

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“When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.” — Mikhail Baryshnikov

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“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” — Herbie Hancock

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“It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.” — Tom Wopat

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“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.” — Ani DiFranco

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“I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.” — Ani DiFranco

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“For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.” — Paula Cole

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“I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.” — Dick Dale

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“Music and the music business are two different things.” — Erykah Badu

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