Quotes About Music

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

Music videos are very concrete and rigid. They don't allow for emotional interaction.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

Music is such an integral part of a film and really drives the emotional narrative, it has to be integrated from the beginning.

But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, theres a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression thats possible with the instrument.

The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Even if I sing like a robot, it is still an emotional robot.

I'm still trying to find the perfect Nirvana song that's an example of that, but you do hear a lot of their songs start with an extremely emotional death grunts.

Songwriting is an emotional medium, and rock and roll is an emotional medium.

Everytime I play something for someone there is an emotional thing that happens that guides me.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I really like the complexity of jazz, the emotional depth; I feel like there's no other music that's really as satisfying as jazz.

I think that both musicals and opera have a capacity to get to an inner emotional landscape.

I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.

You have to follow every melodic line, every emotional idea, or you don't get your money's worth.

Music is the emotional life of most people.

Musicians have made incredible contributions to the conservation and environmental movement and continue to do so, more than ever.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea's not excellent.

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of 'Carousel', and it was a very vivid experience.