Music Quotes

I don't believe in writing at night because it comes too easily. When I read it in the morning it's not good. I need daylight to begin. Between nine and ten o'clock I have a long breakfast with reading and music.

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span.

The countdown reached ten seconds and I could almost hear an invisible crescendo of stirring background music. 'Anchors aweigh!' Five, four, three, two, one... and we had ignition!

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

Country music is the people's music. It just speaks about real life and about truth and it tells things how they really are.

I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could.

To me, country music tells a story about, and deals with, the way people live their lives and what they do.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

When people compliment my cooking, it's like somebody telling me that they like my music. And it's great to be known for something else.

I've learned how much of an impact that music has on people. I get messages all the time from people telling me what my music means to them and what it has done to them.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project.

I've been doing a lot of music for films and television for quite a few years.

I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world.

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

I grew up around salsa, merengue, bachata, bass music, freestyle, hip-hop, techno, house, rave.

I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

Originally a record producer more or less hired a bunch of professionals to participate in a recording session, the performers and the technicians, and a music director was put in charge. That directly related to a film producer's job.

I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.

Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.

It was very interesting for me because DNA made music without much technical knowledge at all.

I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics.

Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.

Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience.