Quotes About Music

The vocals are the very last thing I do. So, it's kinda the opposite: with country. it's singing and guitar first, but with rock, I worry about the riff and music, vocals last.

I intend to put them on the charts.

There's some connection between visual images and music. But there's plenty of old records where I have no idea what the band looked like, or even what sort of context the music was played in.

I just want to create amazing music that speaks and defines who I am. I want it to be based on my life and/or what I am going through at that specific time.

Classical music in Venezuela is now something like a pop concert. You can see people screaming or crying because they don't have a ticket.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

If I'd had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I think it's important, if you are an artist, to use your music to stand up for what you believe in.

Jazz is such a powerful cultural statement that it's almost as if it's intertwined with society.

There is no incidental music to the dramas of real life.

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

I got my interest in Lotte Lenya and the Brecht-Weill canon from my parents. And I love classical music - I got that from my parents. I love Cole Porter - that I got from my dad.

I also like Western classical music and jazz.

Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.

Everything I do is more memorable and I understand music more than ever now. It's not a burden to me.

Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character.

Hip-hop music has done a very good job of maintaining the political context, where they stand and not giving a sh-t what people think.

Do not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.

I usually have a song in my head. I'm thinking music, I'm thinking lyrics. Music helps me get to those moments. The moments between the moments.

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

After all, in today's music scene every band seems to steal from other bands.

Honestly, I don't recommend anyone get into music. If you have something else that you're good at, do that instead. This is a really tough world to live in.

I've pretty much run the circle of labels and dealing with that whole kind of battle, because you're the one creating the music, but you're not the final say. That's always been hard.