Quotes of: Contemporary-music Keyword

I think hip hop is a dance music that's rebellious by nature.

Talib Kweli

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.

Tom Waits

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

Van Morrison

In the broad spectrum of the arts, two worlds rarely overlap - the literary world and the world of rock music.

William Boyd

I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro.

William Christopher Handy

Good Music creates an intersection between heaven and the soul

Aniekee Tochukwu

It takes a special ear to appreciate the many sounds of good music.

Xela Ffonrims

Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater - you do the math!

Nathan Lane

Southern speak is music.” Alessandra flipped a hand through the air, splashing water onto those lickable abs. “It’s country music and you know how I feel about that.” “Be careful, my emo-tastic girl. You’re filling my head with all kinds ...

Godsend

Finally Bill Mixter would lower his head, lay his bow upon the strings, and draw out the first notes of a tune, and the others would come in behind him. The music, while it lasted, brought a new world into being. They would play some tunes they had l...

Jayber Crow

Is the beauty of the Whole really enhanced by our agony? And is the Whole really beautiful? And what is beauty? Throughout all his existence man has been striving to hear the music of the spheres, and has seemed to himself once and again to catch som...

Last and First Men

People listen to music for different reasons. Some people, -its background music— but other people need it to survive. Other people need music to get things out and maybe that’s just where I’m coming from, you know, when things weren’t easy f...

Eddie Vedder

There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it. In our whole life-melody the music is broken off here and there by "rests," and we foolishly think we have come to the end of the tune. God sends a time of forced leisure, sickness,...

John Ruskin

The physical impact of taiko music, along with the sheer visual poetry of a choreographed ensemble presenting its music in perfect synchrony, is so powerful and inviting that taiko is beginning to catch on as Japan's most influential and lasting gift...

Being Japanese American: A JA Sourcebook for Nikkei, Hapa . . . and Their Friends

I'm not going to do anything crazy, but I want to do music that I'm passionate about. I'm finally at an age where I can do the music that I grew up loving, which was urban pop, '90s music. I grew up listening to the divas, so I'm very happy to finall...

Ariana Grande

Only Getting the A and Z with out the B through Y, leaves you SOL.

The Artist's Guide to Success in the Music Business (2nd edition): The "Who, What, When, Where, Why & How" of the Steps that Musicians & Bands Have to Take to Succeed in Music

Now there’s us, staking out our piece of cinematic turf (might be small but it’s ours). And the music has to fit the vision as specifically as it did for [Star Wars and The Matrix.] OUR music comes from THEIR music, this scrappled bunch. It is sp...

Serenity: The Official Visual Companion

I particularly enjoy cello music because our daughter plays the cello. I have listened to her practice for so many hours that I am familiar with the music written for that instrument. I am also fond of the popular music of the 1930s because my future...

Beverly Cleary

Keep music and art alive in our schools because the greatness of a country is not measured by wars that are won, by territory annexed or even the size of a deficit. It is measured by the beauty of the art work by talented hands, the sounds of the mus...

Clarrissa Lee Moon

We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said h...

Ian Axel

My parents being Bengali, we always had music in our house. My nani was a trained classical singer, who taught my mum, who, in turn, was my first teacher. Later I would travel almost 70 kms to the nearest town, Kota, to learn music from my guru Mahes...

Shreya Ghoshal