Quotes About Music

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

I don't know why we, in the art world, cannot unpack things and sort of make hybrid notions of a practice. We're very rigid. It's funny, though; in music, we have no problem sampling, mixing and remixing. But in the art world, why can't we take little parts of history and mix it together?

Fashion and nightlife, the catwalk and the club, are notorious for going hand-in-hand.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

Notorious B.I.G. was one of my favorites. I started getting into hip-hop around the Bad Boy era.

I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up.

Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony.

I love bossa nova. It's the most beautiful genre of music in the world.

Years ago, I went to Brazil and fell in love with it. I really like the music, samba, bossa nova, the language and the people.

I get most of my influences from specific genres. I listen to a lot of R&B music, obviously. But, jazz, and bossa nova music, too.

I probably listen to Burn more than any of them, because it was so new me, so novel. To see my name on an actual record was such an incredible feeling.

I really want to write a novel. I also want to learn to play the mandolin.

I wouldn't sit down and work at writing a song like a novelist or something.

It feels like when novelists say they find their characters are doing things they never thought they'd do, the material comes alive, and that's how I feel making music.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

I like to drive nice cars; since I live in New York, and I don't drive there, it's a novelty to be on the road and drive and listen to my music.

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me.

I played with a band, and the lead singer would always introduce me as 'the 13-year-old lead guitarist.' I didn't want to be a novelty, like 'Oh, she has three arms! Check her out.' But I've learned to accept it as more of a compliment.

I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to it, and I exalt it and take it seriously in a way that I think has just permeated my life ever since. And I'm less interested in music that is novelty or jokey or ironic.

When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.

We're the house that's playing Christmas music by November 1.

I founded my label last November called Icy, and once my foundation is laid, I'd love to go back and help other artists and give them the opportunity that I wasn't given at a younger age.

Now everybody's sampling.