Quotes of: Music-is-my-life Keyword

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

Obie Trice

In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed.

Pierre Schaeffer

Most people seem to resent the controversial in music; they don't want their listening habits disturbed. They use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant...

Aaron Copland

I don't look at our society today too much. My focus is still in the past, and part of the reason is because what I do - the wellspring of art, or what I do - l get from the blues. So I listen to the music of a particular period that I'm working on, ...

August Wilson

I had a dream about you. You were learning to compose music like Mozart, and I was learning to listen like Beethoven. He was deaf, and you were blind to the fact that you had no musical talent. Still, I wore my ear plugs and I clapped and cheered whi...

Dreaming is for lovers

I was in school - I was a good learner; if I wanted to get something done, I could get it done. I was lazy, though. I was always, like, sort of an outcast. And when I got home, I was always doing music, but when I was doing music, no one was there to...

Afrojack

I'm not going to say I'm not a fan, but I'm a fan of house music, essentially, and kind of indie, and I was always into the kind of sub-pop Seattle Mud Honey and Pearl Jam kind of sound. But my kind of big love was house music ever since I was 15/16,...

Nick Frost

I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's go...

Jamie Foxx

‎"It almost felt like the dolphin of my heart’s desire playing in the ocean of my life." - on writing

The Distant Shore

But I know nothing; my future is a wide-open vista, leading to an unknown country - The Rest Of My Life.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

Break Me Slowly

If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it.

Donna Mills

Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

Mariska Hargitay

When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

Mary Oliver

Whatever happens in my life, whether I stand up or I fall down, whatever the case, I'm going to use it in my art. Why? Because I'm an artist and I have to.

Jill Scott

I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.

Sean Lennon

God has judged me all my life. But that is God's privilege, my lady. Not yours.

The Armies of Daylight

My life is now divided into two periods: With June and After June. I can't wrap my mind around the idea of it.

Saving June

..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.

My Heart and Other Black Holes

These then are some of my first memories. But of course as an account of my life they are misleading, because the things one does not remember are as important; perhaps they are more important.

Moments of Being

I have loved you all my life, Mal," I whispered through my tears. "There is no end to our story.

Siege and Storm