Quotes About Music

After 'The Blues Brothers,' I wanted to do a good musical number with real dancers and shoot it correctly.

I had no musical training at all.

I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms.

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

I actually don't see that strong of a connection between my background as a rock 'n roller and my early films. In a way I think your musical identity in film work is determined by the jobs that come your way.

People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.

Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

I really had to think and learn about musical intervals.

I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.

I find that classical music helps put me in a place that is very calming and allows me to express emotion through my body. I played clarinet as a child, so I guess I have a bit of a musical ear.

I'm a hybrid-genre person, which a lot of people find confusing. I grew up listening to American country music and rock n' roll made between 1955 and 1959. The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry were my first musical loves and are still what I am most moved by. Roy Orbison came a little bit later.

I don't want to do free jazz! Because free jazz - which is the musical equivalent of free marketeering - isn't actually free at all. It's just constrained by what your muscles can do.

I'm finishing building a house and setting up a shop to build custom electronical musical instruments.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

My musical career was an accident.

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

People listen to music with cavemen ears: Is it a bird song or the call of a lion? The audience at a musical is dancing in their hearts.

I went through my adolescence having this revelatory experience - I can have any music I want, and I can get it immediately. For me and for a lot of people I know, there's this musical eclecticism that happened.

My family's a very musical family, so music's always been a part of my life.

I feel that I speak the musical language.

I think some people just have an innate musical ability, and I'm lucky enough to be one of those people.

'You Gotta Have Heart' is one of the most ridiculously perfect, amazing musical comedy songs ever.

I would write songs, inspired by my baby, but then I could tell that my baby was also responding to the music. It was just kind of an amazing musical experience.

The most consistent musical experience I had growing up was church music.