Quotes About Music

I am connected to the market and now I am singing songs that my mother loves as well, it's amazing!

I sang "O Holy Night" in a school choir. My mother came and listened to me and complimented me. So that was the high point. I cannot sing a note.

I didn't think it was fair to my music to label me as the daughter of somebody - I didn't think it described me very well and I didn't think it had anything to do with my music.

My mother loved rock and roll. She loved high-energy music.

My mother brought accordion home. She was going to learn to play it so she could teach it and increase her income. And I got fascinated with it, so she backed off and let me do it.

My mother gave me a ukulele at age eight, and I sang the popular tunes of the day.

My mother playing the violin and my father and grandfather playing the piano, classical stuff.

My mother would take me to jazz concerts in the park and everybody was smoked out. She gave me the intro and then she forced me to play an instrument to keep me out of trouble.

My mother was an amateur singer, my father was an amateur drunk.

My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs write life. I decided to take her up on that.

My mother had a lot of parties when I was a child. There'd always be a moment when she would place me on the upright piano and have me sing Somewhere Over the Rainbow.

I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception.

When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are.

My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the world of humanity and music.

When my mother had four girls, and she could tell her marriage was falling apart, she went back to college and got her degree in music and education.

I've got to play in front of people. If I'm not moved, how can they be moved.

My songs aren't bubble gum pop dance songs and I don't have background dancers on every single song.

If people are really excited about their music, and that's their primary motivation, then that comes through in demo tapes. That's the most important ingredient.

When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions.

When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.