Music Quotes

Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me.

Johnny was great in the studio; he was there to make the music that he wanted to make. We lived right beside each other and had a rehearsal studio that was just ours, with nobody else using it, it was part of Johnny's house, so we could rehearse every day.

I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

I never presumed that a technique of composition or an idea was so special that just using it would guarantee the quality of the music.

I conceived of an instrument that would create sound without using any mechanical energy, like the conductor of an orchestra. The orchestra plays mechanically, using mechanical energy; the conductor just moves his hands, and his movements have an effect on the music artistry.

As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

We are pushing ahead as fast as we can for all audiences, whether for the business user, the child, or the digital music enthusiast.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.

You must have the music to justify an instrument's extensive use.

What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music.

I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts.

Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it.

You never really know as an actor; it's completely out of your control, in terms of editing, and music, and film stock, shot selection, and what takes they use.

When I use music on stage, the prime directive is to entertain the public, so it is different.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent.

So that I saw music as a way of documenting realities from the urban cities of Latin America.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.