Quotes of: Our-music Keyword

I make music that I know that people will enjoy, and balance the ideas and philosophy that we put in music with music that when we play it live, people can move to it and groove to it.

Ziggy Marley

The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

Why is it that the musical public is seemingly so reluctant to consider a musical composition as, possibly, a challenging experience? When I hear a new piece of music that I do not understand I am intrigued - I want to make contact with it again at t...

What to Listen for in Music

I hope people half my age and twice my age will listen to my music - I want it to live forever and for my audience to feel like they have a friend in my music. Music is a spirit. It heals. It's an amazing thing to be loved and appreciated, and someti...

Hunter Hayes

For me music is pretty personal. I generally listen to it alone, and I've never been a lover of concerts. So I don't think I really bond with other people over music. That's not unique to music for me, either. I feel that way about film, television, ...

Rick Moranis

The dilemma of the eighth-grade dance is that boys and girls use music in different ways. Girls enjoy music they can dance to, music with strong vocals and catchy melodies. Boys, on the other hand, enjoy music they can improve by making up filthy new...

Love Is a Mix Tape

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it...

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

When the Music's Over: My Journey into Schizophrenia

I did a lot of musicals when I was young and finally went to drama school to try and get away from doing musicals... and of course the first thing that happened when I got out is I got offered a musical. And then when I got to the Royal Shakespeare C...

Stephen Moyer

Music helps not the toothache.

Traditional

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

DJ Jazzy Jeff

I was reared on folk music.

Rufus Wainwright

As in music, when we hear the crescendo building, suddenly if the music stops, we begin to hear the silence as part of the music.

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

Alan Jackson

My music library has about every genre of music possible. I've really gotten into Ray LaMontagne, He makes amazing music, so I listen to him, and he's a great artist.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Yeah, I can't separate the art from the music and the music from the art. I think that stems from going to school for film first, and kind of stumbling onto music as my career.

Karen O

Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped at expensive private schools.

Will Shetterly

Never lose the groove in order to find a note.

The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music

The greatest predictor of musical success is the quality and the quantity of practice time.

Learning Strategies for Musical Success

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.

Eric Idle

The new music, the bebop and modern jazz, wasn't music to him. It was choppy noise pretending to make music out of traffic jams.

Richard Flanagan