Quotes About Music

I don't ever sing classically when I am singing a contemporary score - I kind of try to fit in whatever needs to happen.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist, but I kind of mangle things as I perform in a contemporary way.

With contemporary music, you automatically get connected. It connects you to the emotion of the characters.

Musical composition, about which I know little, is a complicated art, and some contemporary music may be the equivalent of a complex abstract painting.

I started writing songs for youth theater and stuff, and so it's really writing music for the stage that started me out, but then I eventually went to music college and did a two-year course in contemporary music and then just played in endless bands, cover bands, jazz bands.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

My lyrical content is all about entertainment.

Music is wonderful. Especially if there's some kind of content to it.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

One doesn't want to feel too contented; you have to feel challenged by the music.

First time I ever sang was in a contest in Louisiana when I was 9. And I won yodeling.

It was a beauty contest in the '80s. If they played two women back to back on the radio, it was almost a scandal.

I think what you get with the voice is that people can actually sing. The entertainment you get is not only from the contestants but also from the coaches.

My father used to say it was just there, the opportunity. It was all teed up for him. The talkies were starting, and here was Hollywood waiting for people to come from New York who had the training, who could do music with a sense of dramatic context.

The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!

I can see me continuing to make the best music I can, and let the chips fall where they may.

I think there are records that will sell, and I think what makes a record sell is a continuity of sound.

This continuity of sound and form was something that I became really interested in from working with Ligeti. He was always going on about how form has to be continuous.

We've been playing together since we were 13, and from the age of 18, we've had a record contract. I think that we've been incredibly lucky, yeah. But we deserve it.

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

Yeah, early '71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of '71. Things happened really fast.

I went with Atlantic because I got a lawyer to look at my contract and my contract was fire.

Now we know that, the way contracts are set up, it's not really made for artists to get rich from selling records - that's the company's one shot to make money.

I would be down to collaborate with certain people if we were able to do it in a way that, you know, what we're saying in the same song wouldn't contradict.