Quotes About Music

Don't you hear it? She asked & I shook my head no & then she started to dance & suddenly there was music everywhere & it went on for a very long time & when I finally found words all I could say was thank you.

I take sounds and change them into words.

Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

I've had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I've often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Musicians are there in front of you, and the spectators sense their tension, which is not the case when you're listening to a record. Your attention is more relaxed. The emotional aspect is more important in live music.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

At the beginning of the 20th century, the ambition of the great painters was to make paintings that were like music, which was then considered as the noblest art.

People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening ' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.

Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral - always disappearing - and becomes instead material... it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.

I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs.

Most game music is based on loops effectively.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture.

Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish.

We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience.

The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important.

I don't like headphones very much, and I rarely listen to music on headphones.

You can't really imagine music without technology.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.

The first Velvet Underground album only sold 10,000 copies, but everyone who bought it formed a band

I believe in singing. I believe in singing together.