Quotes About Music

Ever since I was little, I looked up to Destiny's Child so much; I looked up to the Spice Girls and En Vogue. A piece of me wanted to be in a girl group.

People often ask us if we had direct influences. Honestly, just a lot of different music - not necessarily individual people. We listen to anything from Bob Dylan to Massive Attack to Aerosmith to En Vogue. We very much enjoy all that music.

I'm, for real, the biggest En Vogue fan.

'Celluloid' is set in the 1930s. During the decade, the folk-classical genre seems to have been in vogue. It didn't take much effort to compose because my guru Neyyattinkara Mohanachandran and his guru, M. M. Dandapani Desikar, used to sing this genre.

With 'Haaye Dil,' I wish I can get the pop music culture back in vogue.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.

I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.

Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

I stopped smoking. When I stopped smoking, my voice changed... so drastically, I couldn't believe it myself.

You know the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice.

It is the closest instrument to the human voice, and the things you can do on the cello... there are endless possibilities.

The greatest musical instrument given to a human being is the voice.

Music is the voice of the soul and can move mountains. People receive the message of the soul through the voice. It is a voice, the tone that moves something in people.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

The range of the cello is so big, it can play as low as the double bass and as high as the violin. It has the perfect shape, and its sound is the closest to the human voice.

Occasionally, some brother sings very earnestly through his nose, often disturbing those around him, but it does not matter how the voice sounds to the ears of man. What is important is how the heart sounds to the ears of God.

If you like an instrument that sings, play the saxophone. At its best it's like the human voice.

The human voice is the most perfect instrument of all.

I don't really have the voice for love songs, do I?

I think 42 Dugg is a superstar - he's got the voice, the music, the look and the hustle.

I then realized that I could never be satisfied again with the mere natural charm of my voice, that I had to constantly paint when singing, melting all the colors, expressing reds and blacks that had to be less primary but bursting with subtly colored combinations.

If you listen to people talk, when people actually talk, they talk in melodies. If they get angry, their voice rises, and it's more of a staccato thing. When they ask for something, they're real sweet. It's all music.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.