Quotes About Music

Jazz is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

I went to the London Academy Of Music and Dramatic Art and returned to New York where I started my career.

Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.

What do you know about music, you're not a lawyer?

I like the idea of imagining a sound and feeling a sound and then having it come out through your body, through an instrument. That's an important way to make music.

I'd say the differences are more interesting than the similarities at this point. Certainly no one would ever mistake my music for Steve's [ Reich].

If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that.

It's the opportunity to play something completely different, responding to what happened just before you started to play, and I love that.

I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.

As rich as Cincinnati was in live music, New York was even more.

Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.

I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture.

Meat eaten without either mirth or music is ill of digestion.

But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there.

I even think that, sentimentally, I am disposed to harmony. But organically I am incapable of a tune.

He [ the son]'s grown up listening to all types of music, and the natural form of rebellion is to find the one genre that maybe he hasn't listened to and to make that his thing.

We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by depressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Pagers are my life--I try to get them in to our music as much as possible.

I don't think Metallica sits around all day wondering why country music fans don't embrace them.

I can read music, but I have no technique, and singing was never an option even though I sang a lot growing up.

Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around.

Music is that great language where a lot can be said and little can be proven.