Quotes About Music

I've played hundreds of protests. I've marched on dozens of picket lines. I've strummed my guitar at innumerable demonstrations.

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

I didn't want to disrespect my parents, so I never played blues around the house. But I knew then, same as I know today, that I wasn't doing anything wrong. I think that before they died, they both felt very proud of me.

I've been very fortunate as a composer to be involved with projects that have really propelled my scores forward. I'm very proud of it.

I was always proud of the score to 'Newsies.' The movie is good, but it was under-budgeted.

My first album was called 'Badlands,' and it's something that I think I'm most proud of having done in my life.

People should feel proud about the music that we have in our country, and that's my objective.

Two decades later, Gary Jules sang 'Mad World' for the film 'Donnie Darko' and got the Christmas No 1 in 2003. That was probably the proudest moment of my career.

I want to prove that Holst's 'The Planets' can be as much of a sensory overload as a concert by the Grateful Dead, and just as exciting.

I hope that I can make good music out of whatever genre I go into. Just to prove to myself that I can.

Basically, I want to prove to everybody that I can write music - good music.

I will prove that a great conducting career is expecting me.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

FOr a while, I'd never had the opportunity to prove on TV that I could play the piano.

On 'Heartbreaker,' I had to sing those songs. I drank the way I did those songs. I ate the way I did those songs. I communicated the way I did those songs. With 'Gold,' I was trying to prove something to myself. I wanted to invent a modern classic.

I did have a life before the Animals, and I'm trying constantly to prove that I have a life after the Animals. People tend to forget that I was the frontman with War for two years. People sort of have compartmental memories.

What I really want to do is, first of all, get my music out to the world. And then I would really just like to reach other kids all over the world and tell them to believe in themselves and prove to people that you can do anything you want.

When we decided to go to Cuba to perform, we did it because we just wanted to build a bridge, you know, between Cuba and the rest of the community. And we just wanted to prove that music and art need to be over all ideology or way to think life, and we just wanted to go in there and play just because of love.

I just feel if you are an artist, you always have something to prove, if you are in music or in films, you have to prove that you can still do your best.

At a festival like Coachella, you're not necessarily playing for your fans. You're playing to some, but there is also a lot of people that have maybe heard one of your songs, but aren't quite fans yet, so you feel like you have something to prove.

A lot of people really didn't expect for me to have a record with Kendrick, but I proved them wrong. It's not easy to get Kendrick on a record, so it was a huge deal for me to have him featured on the song.