Quotes About Music

People aren't interested in music on Facebook in the way they are on MySpace, that's one of the big keys here.

It's not as much fun to go to karaoke alone, but when you do it through the Internet or on your MySpace page, then you can share it with people.

I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.

Gamelan instruments are exotic and mysterious.

I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

I'm hands-on with everything. From music to a car to remodeling a house - anything. People don't know that stuff, though, 'cause I put all my focus into music and being mysterious a little bit.

I take music very seriously, but it's important to me that my music is - I don't know if 'intuitive' is the word, but there's a really important element of something kind of mysterious. It's not academic or esoteric.

It's a mysterious thing, music. You're just never sure. You 'get' it, but does anyone else even get a chance to know it exists? And if they do, are they gonna feel about it like you feel? When they do, it feels great.

The way the mind decodes music is an individual mystery. But the physical circumstances can change the way you listen.

The music comes from within and outside. Within is the big mystery of life; we've all got it.

It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me.

I think space and music go hand in hand in the sense that they give a little more mystery and magic to life.

There are thousands upon thousands of new Johnny Cash fans every year, inspired by the music, talent, and - I believe hugely - by the mystery of the man.

The tonality of the flute almost has a mystic element to me.

Luke James has this mystique about him that's not something you can explain; you can only experience it. He's got a whole D'Angelo feel to him as well.

What made 'Dark Side Of The Moon' so great is some of the mystique and where it was coming from and just the authenticity of it.

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

For me, there was no great myth around the movies when I was a young child. My father was very simple about the whole thing. He did not consider cinema an art. Cinema was entertainment. Literature and music were art.

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

I was definitely drawn to the mythology of one man, one voice, and one guitar.

I'd like to explode a few myths about what we call classical music. It's not high art for the titillation of a chosen few.

I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.