Music Quotes

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Just listen to all this sweet, sweet music. I'm working the music.

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.

The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.

I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm.

I want the audience to be so involved in the sweep of the music.

Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it.

My music was my life, and it played a large part in my inability to sustain relationships.

Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan.

Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people.

I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me.

The stage is close to being in the middle of the hall, so that the performers are surrounded by the listeners. I feel that we are all experiencing the music together.

Music is not just a part of my everday life, I'm surrounded by it every minute.

Evergreen had opened up a whole new world to me. There I met many internationally celebrated people: there I was surrounded by the best art and music, as well as conversation. I knew I could never return to the life I had led before.

The idea in The Man that Would Be King was that the music should recreate all that majestic surrounding and emphasize the adventure, but also speak about the frustration or, rather said, the curse of both protagonists, even before happened what happens them.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

I played Big Band jazz music. I wasn't into rock and roll. I was just there because it was a living. I surprised everyone. I'm still surprising people.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks.

I know some people will be surprised to hear it, but I've found that my music, whether its blues or rock, or whatever you want to call it, can be channeled into a positive direction that actually helps people.

I'm amazed at how adventurous and how dangerous the music was, and still is. I haven't heard anything like it since. I'm quite surprised, because a lot of the music on there we never heard at the time.

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.