Quotes About Music

One of the things that defined me is that I spoke in my songs very loudly, the negative messages, and I already managed to dominate commercial music.

I was in high school and college as hip-hop was really sort of coming into its own as a, you know, creative force, as a sort of cultural voice. And it really spoke to me.

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

When I say a spoken Hebrew sentence, half of it is like the King James Bible and half of it is a hip-hop lyric. It has a roller-coaster effect.

Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him.

Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.

Fashion is so important to me. I've always spoken about it in my music.

Well, I believe in God. I'm a very spiritual person, and parts of my family are Christian. I really started believing in God at the beginning of this music stuff. Everything that's happened I have spoken into existence.

European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!

I'm sorry, I see everything in life as a song, so every word spoken is lyrics. If you're going to get to know me, that is something you have to be okay with.

It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.

I'm not going to do an album. There's enough horrible drag queens singing - especially when they do that spoken word over music, 'I'm fierce! I'm fierce!'

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

I always like spoken word records.

I love dogs. I think dogs are way smarter. Maybe I can be the dog spokesman for the rock world. There are a lot of cat people making rock music.

I listen to my iPod as I walk on. If I'm winning I'll listen to the same song, that's like a good luck thing - usually The Black Eyed Peas' Let's Get It Started.

There are a lot better musicians than me out there that just haven't had the luck to fall into everything like I have.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.

The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin.

Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!

I've always been suspicious of TV, I've always found music and video to be an unhappy marriage.

My influences were mostly gospel. So I was playing my twisted Jewish equivalent of gospel music over his twisted equivalent of rock and roll music. And it was a very excellent marriage.

Rosa Hubermann was sitting on the edge of the bed with her husband's accordion tied to her chest. Her fingers hovered above the keys. She did not move. She didn't ever appear to be breathing.