Quotes of: Music-world Keyword

I don't think music is the first thing I turn to. For me, I think visual art is more the thing. Sometimes when I've been doing music for a while, I can't really take any more in.

Bat for Lashes

My father was very interested in music, and when he and his brothers were young, they had a singing group that used to open for Sam Cooke. There was always music in our house, but there wasn't much art around.

Carrie Mae Weems

Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of a...

Gary Wright

My parents didn't have records, they didn't have radios, and they didn't listen to music. My grandmother was my main connection to art and music. She could play piano very well, and she had perfect pitch.

Gerard Way

With few exceptions, music has been for some centuries the art which has devoted itself not to the reproduction of natural phenomena, but rather to the expression of the artist's soul, in musical sound.

Wassily Kandinsky

Musical innovation is full of danger to the State, for when modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the State always change with them.

The Republic

Live and love with your soul's goodness and inner beauty as your heart leaps upward in any season of your life.

Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

Live your life significantly. Contribute to a meaningful and useful positive changes and growth towards humanity.

Rhythm of a Heart, Music of a Soul

Indian food is like classical music raga- it takes time to build up to a crescendo.

Superstar India - From Incredible to Unstoppable

Patrick actually used to be popular before Sam bought him some good music.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

This is the music business. 'Five years is five hundred years' - your words.

A Visit from the Goon Squad

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?' My answer to that would be, 'No'.

What to Listen for in Music

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Henry Rollins

When I heard Elvis Presley, then I knew I had to do music. Music is my god, and is the only love that has never left me. It has always been there and is my best friend.

Ville Valo

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Sheri L. Dew

If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award.

Tegan Quin

The only stuff I don't like are Broadway musicals. I hate them. I don't even like to talk about it. I can't bear musicals.

Laurie Anderson

I think music is what language once aspired to be. Music allows us to face God on our own terms because it reaches beyond life.

Simon Van Booy

The artist must forget the audience, forget the critics, forget the technique, forget everything but love for the music. Then, the music speaks through the performance, and the performer and the listener will walk together with the soul of the compos...

Mstislav Rostropovich

I've had so many different influences musically, even from people who aren't even musicians. If you're inspired by someone and you document it musically, then they are your influence.

Mark Salling

You know, they were returning to the language of the people and trying to use musical language, particularly as Copland did to create a musical language in which all Americans would feel that they had a stake.

Michael Tilson Thomas