Quotes About Music

Ambient music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting

Sir Thomas Beecham once said this at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall when I was there as a boy. He said 'I'm often asked why operas survive generation after generation—La Bohème and things like that. And I always reply. 'They survive because they consist of bloody good tunes'.

Not to mince words Mr. Epstein, we don't like your boys' sound. Groups of guitarists are on the way out.

You must be out of your mind. These boys are going to explode. I am completely confident that one day they will be bigger than Elvis Presley.

To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but, with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed.

The Wedding March has a bit of a death march in it.

Frankly, our music has too often been shallow, discordant, or played with a wooden concern for technical correctness but without feeling and passion.

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool.

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses.

Freddy noted that the 'very word "to sing" is the same as "to breathe"'.

What's more, whenever inspiration, taste, marketing, and the economy aligned, they sold enormous quantities of these musical recordings to audiences they helped create. This is their story.

A&R officials helped fashion and disseminate music that often evoked older, highly romanticized and reassuring visions of a simpler, less frenetic, and more communal past.

Substitute "Hillbilly" for "Blues" and this regionally inflected nostalgia remains much the same. Bear down on the word "real" in Paramount's advertising copy, and it is possible to see how recorded roots music, with its claims to authenticity, could help counter a sense of social and cultural dislocation, a deep anxiety about the increasing superficiality and transitory nature of a modern America characterized by disconcerting changes.

I am always looking for a cool tee shirt maybe one with a rock band or an old advertisement.

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started exploring in lots of different creative ways. It gave me the opportunity to travel and play music, so it was good for me.

Hitler] Mesélt linzi ifjúságáról és arról, hogy gyermekként milyen nagy hatással volt rá a linzi Landestheaterben látott LOHENGRIN-el?adás. Akkoriban megfordult a fejében, hogy operaénekes lesz.

I still have a lot to learn - about the business, about music, and about myself. Its exciting.

I'm so happy to be able to give kids the opportunity to learn about amazing world of dance and music that I've have been lucky enough to make such a big part of my own life.

I love Jessica Simpson. I love her voice. She's amazing.

It's Britney, bitch

We also listen to PJ Harvey a lot of driving music. You need something a little more relaxing in the car.

Peter stood, cleared his throat, and began to hum softly, then sing, slowly building up the song as his voice cleared. He found the old tune, the song of the Sunbird. And as he sung, as his rich voice echoed off the tall cliffs, the birds and the faeries lent him their voice and soon the tune drifted throughtout the garden.

You can never be done with music. No more than you can be done with breathing. The day you quit is the day you die.