Quotes of: Music-world Keyword

One of the things about writing that inspires--and impresses me, is the music words can make. And, like music, the spaces between the notes can mean as much as the notes themselves. -- The Jesus Horse

The Jesus Horse

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Richard II

Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.

Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

just remember: i love you, and love yourselves. 'cause, little monsters, you were born that way baby.

Lady Gaga: The Fame music book

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Do you know people who insist they like 'all kinds of music'? That actually means they like of music.

Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

Am I the only guy that holds a flute of champagne like it’s a musical instrument?

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I was trying to uphold what I thought feminism was as best I could by supporting women, by trying to create an opportunity to get women to get together, play music together and celebrate the fact that we are having great success making music on our o...

Sarah McLachlan

Music carries the weight of being human, takes it away so you don't have to think at all, you just have to listen. Music tells every story there is.

This Raging Light

We take gingko to sharpen our memories. We could be memorizing song lyrics instead.

How Can We Keep from Singing: Music and the Passionate Life

I’m a man of music as much as I am a man of words and prose. One could even possibly say that they, music and prose, are connected to a lengthy and mutually beneficial extent and that they have been of centuries or millenniums.

Nicholas Trandahl

I think musical theater fans - obsessive fans - are very much like Comic Con fans in our personalities. We're very possessive, and we're very obsessive, and we're very critical. So don't screw with our stuff.

Richard LaGravenese

People used to recordings believed every piece of music had a definitive sound, its emotional context trapped in amber, a butterfly pinned to a board; beautiful, but dead. Live music was just that. Alive.

Tanya Huff

For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and si...

Jon Secada

There's a point where you think, 'What else will I do if I don't do music?' It becomes your identity when it never should have been. But food ignited a fire in me, and I came right back to music because it no longer felt like a job. It was a really p...

Kelis

I have been involved in music since 1972 when I started managing two artists from The Jimi Hendrix Band. My family has been involved in music for years, so it's kind of in my blood. I just wish I could sing!

Earl Monroe

I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was somethi...

Jack Wagner

Mentorship is really important. I really like to talk to people who have been in the music industry much longer than me about artists' block, things I'm struggling with, or the music business. It's really important for artists to have a community. So...

Bat for Lashes

My real name is Chord Overstreet. I actually got my name because my dad is in the music business as a songwriter. I was the third one in my family born, and there are three notes in a chord, so that's how they came up with my name.

Chord Overstreet

I think in certain areas the demand is greater than it has ever been, and my business is better than it's been in 30 years. The music business is so precarious, as you know-you've got to make it while you can make it, and that's exactly what we're do...

George Shearing

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

James Taylor