Quotes of: Music-people Keyword

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Hal Price

This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.

Hilary Rosen

Maybe I'm a dreamer, but I think the ordinary guy has just as much right to say 'This is a good song' as somebody who is in the music business.

Kenny G

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

Mark McGrath

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

Lyle Lovett

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Bonnie Raitt

For electronica music, David Linton has been doing this series called Unity Gain, which is pretty cool.

Jim Coleman

I'm always trying to think of something clever and fun to do with the music. There's so many cool things musicians and artists can do with their products.

Robert Coppola Schwartzman

I think it's really cool how J. Lo's been able to balance an acting career and a music career. That's something I strive for.

Victoria Justice

Music is about communication, and the chemistry between an audience and the orchestra is absolutely essential; the performance does not exist in a bubble.

Charles Hazlewood

Maybe in music you're making an auditory environment and maybe you change your environment around you to suit your own way.

Florence Welch

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Plutarch

I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home.

James Vincent McMorrow

All my friends were cheerleaders, and I was the girl who hung out at home. I just worked on my music all the time.

Meghan Trainor

When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

Tom Odell

Through the music I hope to give it an arc that gives it a greater sense of a journey through the set rather than a bunch of songs.

Gotye

My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music.

Yoko Ono

I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.

Janet Jackson

I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.

Eddi Reader

When you look back on music history, it falls into these neat periods, but of course, the period you yourself are living through seems totally scattered and chaotic.

Eric Whitacre

I'm probably the only kid in history whose parents made him stop taking music lessons. They made me stop studying the accordion.

Ricky Jay