Music Quotes

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores.

The value of music is to be able to play one note at the right time in the right way.

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.

What we value about music and literature are the moments that they create in our minds when we encounter them.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of the music.

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

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.

All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated.

When I don't know what the music is going to be for a scene, I imagine some sort of orchestration going on and damned if they don't usually come up with a similar kind of thing.

As a musician usually music is your way out.

We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own.

I usually think in terms of music.

I awake, I meditate, get the kids off to school, go to the gym, go to the Favored Nations office, and usually at around 1 pm I'm home and do music the rest of the day.

I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses.

Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head.

Artists who write songs... what they're going through usually comes through in their music.

Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

Nowadays, if a studio assumes that his film is bad, there is always an executive that gets more nervous than usual and thinks that if they change the music, the film will become a masterpiece.

When I listen to Radio 1 and hear five different tracks in a row using old disco samples, well that's plagiarism, that's taking other people's music.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.