Quotes of: World-music Keyword

We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us.

Jeff Tweedy

There are parallels between the music and film worlds, but they're really very different. I feel like they're just two different ways to channel my creativity.

Mandy Moore

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Peter Ustinov

Music gave me a sense that I was worthwhile and that I had something of value to offer the world even though everybody was telling me that I didn't.

Sarah McLachlan

In the last few years I've been listening to jazz more than anything else. I listen to a lot of world music and experimental here and there.

Serj Tankian

I want to put my vibe and my feel of music into an album and have people from different places around the world feel that and hear that.

Thia Megia

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

Gyorgy Ligeti

I see using my other senses. I can smell the rain before it drops, but I can’t watch it fall. I can feel the sun on my face, but I can’t see it rise or set. I want to see the world like everyone else, to see the sun, the rain, the music. Oh I bet...

Sydney Wells

Youths write me and tell me that their band will go nowhere because of all the bad bands in the world. I tell them there has always been awful music and that no great band ever wasted any time complaining, they just got it done. Their ropey ranting i...

Henry Rollins

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, ‘You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don’t need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the par...

George Harrison

What good is music? None, Gage thought, and that is the point. To the world and its states and armies and factories and leaders, music says, ‘You are irrelevant’; and, arrogant and gentle as a god, to the suffering man it says only, ‘Listen.’...

Ursula K. Le Guin

It's a strange feeling, when you hear a good piece of music. It starts out kind of shaky, this hot, heavy knot in your chest. At first it's tiny, like a spot of light in a dark room, but then it builds, pouring through you. And the next thing you kno...

The Year of Shadows

I listen to a lot of alternative types of music: I listen to a lot of Chinese music, I listen to a lot of Asian music. It might surprise you, but I listen to a lot of Arabic music. And I don't care - music is music.

Timbaland

The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. ...

Chuck Palahniuk

The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Marco Brambilla

I felt obligated to change music to art, the same way that Galileo proved the Earth was round to the world and that the Sun did not stand still.

Phil Spector

If you can strike the cord of consistency on the guitar of life, the world will dance to your music of greatness

Osho Samuel Adetunji

if music was the language of the world, imagine how beautiful a seven-billion-part harmony would be.

scott hoying

Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel.

Michael Bassey Johnson

My first score for 'The Lord of the Rings' trilogy, 'The Fellowship of the Ring,' was the beginning of my journey into the world of Tolkien, and I will always hold a special fondness for the music and the experience.

Howard Shore

My story of success and failure is not just about music and being famous. It's about living and loving and trying to find purpose in this crazy world.

Wynonna Judd