Quotes About Music

I love music. I love going out dancing.

I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.

People never heard bells in Western music sounding really cataclysmic. You hear that more in Russian music or in Asian, Indonesian traditions.

My music education was oral. I was resistant to scores and things like that. In Jewish religious music, there are no scores. You learn everything by rote, by ear, by repeating.

If I had to give up reading or give up listening to music, I suspect I'd stick with the music.

Tim Price is truly blessed - he plays music because he loves it.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

As a music listener, I'm becoming more and more ADD - like, "Eh, I'm bored with this". So who knows how long I'll be playing music.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I like to get away from noise, although I will play noisy music in my car to keep myself awake. But my ears need a rest sometimes. I do enjoy listening to classical music.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

The music that I play and that I like is traditional music, maybe it's because of my age.

I love house music. I love all music.

I love music so much; I've always played.

I'm making black music. That's the only outline for me, really. That's the only boundary to stay with. It's soul music. I'm going all out in those terms.

Going back to the paradigm we live in, the only way to do music is if I can sustain living off of it. If I can't live off of it, I'm not going to be able to make as much music.

I may quit the music business someday, but never the music.

If pop music reflects the culture, this will surely go down as the era in which people rose up and realized it was fun to dance at parties.

Originally I'm a big pop-music aficionado, that's my love.

To me the bottom line is: good music is good music.