Quotes About Music

[As a conductor] there has to be, between me and the orchestra, an unshakable bond of trust, born out of mutual respect, through which we can spin a musical narrative that we all believe in.

The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world works than most of the players out there.

I have a satellite radio show called 'The Legends of Reggae.' It's a cool way to branch out and do other things. I'm paying respect to the legends of reggae.

The coolest thing about the music industry is that it's super collaborative and based on relationships and mutual respect.

It's probably easier for rappers as far as a respect level. 'Cause with singers, the powers that be tend to feel that we're stupid.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

I've always been a really really big Sheryl Crow fan. I just respect what she does in a way that she just remains true to her music and sort of has just been real. She isn't trying too hard ever.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.

I am rather what we usually call a Pop pianist with my own romantic style.

Merengue is a fast rhythm, you know, and danceable. Bachata is like a slow, romantic Caribbean bolero.

I was fortunate enough to be raised in a, in a very romantic time in terms of music, and the music itself simple reflected the much more romantic time.

I love jazz music and sad music. I'm a sentimental guy. I'm a romantic guy.

I'm a really cheesy romantic I like to light candles and listen to romantic music

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music.

Walk my way and a thousand violins begin to play, or it might be the sound of your hello.

I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

At the risk of sounding hopelessly romantic, love is the key element. I really love to play with different musicians who come from different cultural backgrounds.

Romantic music really stirs my soul. And, of course, I love Chinese music it makes me feel closer to home.

We're all just animals. That's all we are, and everything else is just an elaborate justification of our instincts. That's where music comes from. And romantic poetry. And bad novels.

I think it'd be great if Prince made an album of just romantic, slow ballads.

My first boyfriend that I ever had, actually sang a song that he wrote for me on-stage to ask me out. That was pretty romantic.