Quotes About Music

Hip-hop was started as a very egocentric, testosterone, machismo-driven art form. The way that people are trying to take away that masculinity that is a such an intrinsical part of hip-hop music.

When I hear bluegrass today, I hear so many new sounds in it. It's almost like country music in a way.

Music is silence, which in dreaming begins to sound

Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can buy.

I love what I do. I was given the most incredible gift that can be given to anyone. I could never imagine a world without music, and I feel grateful that I've been given the ability to share that.

When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.

Kenny Burrell is the grand master of jazz guitar.

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.

Drugs don't have to be a part of that to me, so if somebody says - your music takes me to that sort of place - then I'm really psyched.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

The idea of dancing to bad house music is something I could never get behind.

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals

When you go to the Opry for a show or hear it on the radio, you get the whole circle of country music.

I think the great country songs mixed with some of that bluegrass instrumentation - and surrounding all that with a little bit of a rock vibe and energy - is the kind of music I make.

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

There is something wonderful about singing and writing music, I think there is something special about creativity and the ability humans have in that area.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

I like the old school heavy metal bands like AC/DC and Aeromith. I like that type of music. As the director, I tried to influence the type of music the bands in the movie would play.

My thing is when people say Dom Kennedy's music reminds them of L.A., I wanna do that 100 percent because at the end of the day that's all I am.

If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.

Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.

The music dictates to me which instrument I use. I'm basically waiting for orders as it were.

Music is also one of the great heart openers. Sometimes, you hear the lyrics of a song and you dance, laugh, smile, or perhaps even cry.