Quotes About Music

The way I see EDM right now, it's a healthy industry for sure - minimal work for maximum profit.

If there's any profit to be had in Nashville-Underground, it's very long term. We're not about money, which gives us an edge over the labels.

Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

As music became more profitable in the 1990s, it seemed like it attracted a lot of people who were just interested in the financial aspect of it, which is depressing.

I'm not a good musician, but I did my homework and I knew this was my way out of profound poverty.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.

There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

In art and music, particularly in the 20th century, there was a big period there where for something to be called profound you had to not be able to understand it.

Schubert had arguably the same melodic gift as Mozart, but even less support. He didn't have the early exposure, never got to travel anywhere, and yet generated and amassed a body of work that grew and developed and is very profound.

Mozart's seeming frothiness is just a light touch with very profound material. That's what I've found working on 'The Magic Flute.'

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

Moving to San Francisco affected me in a pretty profound way, in a lot of respects. I think it helped me evolve my sound and think outside of the space I'd been in in Sacramento. The scene there is so insular and kind of feeds on itself: you just end up playing the same shows with the same people for the same people.

Bach's music is really some of the greatest. I think, in some ways, Bach is the most profound composer of all.

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

Chuck Berry had a very profound impact on me. The man was a genius.

I really, really love music. I'm affected by it and uplifted by it, and made to laugh and cry, and almost fall in love with the person who has made me feel so brilliant and communicated so profoundly to me.

Fundamentally, I'm profoundly influenced by hip-hop, so whatever I do is going to bear that seal.

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.