Quotes About Music

I think my strength is in shaping a song - you know, making it feel like it reaches its peaks and valleys, and ends when it should end.

Our culture is our strength be it music, dance, poetry or anything, and these are very precious.

Jazz should be much less about stress on technical exhibitionism and much more on emotional content.

I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.

Rap is stress, but it pays great.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

I learn something new every day - to edit, to take out all the extraneous matter and stress form, logic, and content. I try to play beautiful music.

Working out gives me the opportunity to let go and listen to my music; it's a big stress reliever.

You need songs that make you feel. Some make you string, some make you weak. Some build determination, some tear you apart. But you need all of those...Run through the pain.

Everything was a song. Every conversation, every personal hurt, every observance of people in stress, happiness and love... if you could feel it, I could feel it. And I could write a song about it.

Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

I had no allusions of radio success. I just loved being in studios. I was having fun and in that sense I now feel a lot like I did when I did that record.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

The success of our operas rests most of the time in the hands of the conductor. This person is as necessary as a tenor or a prima donna.

It still feels unreal sometimes. It all happened so fast, like an explosion you know. But I am really hyped about the success of 'Animals' and 'Wizard'.

I couldn't do no yodelin', so I turned to howlin'. And it's done me just fine.

In business, you can have one massive success that earns $50 million overnight, and that's it. You're successful. End of story. But in the music business, you have to keep on doing it.

Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you.

It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.

Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

Independence has been key to the success and sustained growth of electronic music over the past 25 years.

I've never left music behind, but I've had success in television.

Success and the art of making music are two different things for me.

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success.