Quotes of: World-music Keyword

The Gershwin legacy is extraordinary because George Gershwin died in 1937, but his music is as fresh and vital today as when he originally created it.

Michael Feinstein

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

Michael Franti

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

Mayer Hawthorne

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Mayer Hawthorne

My 10 year old son likes it. He's trying to play guitar and everything. He likes that kind of music.

Merle Haggard

Poetry privileges music and is aesthetically more challenging. Prose privileges information and is emotionally more challenging.

Mary Karr

I believe that music is a force in itself. It is there and it needs an outlet, a medium. In a way, we are just the medium.

Maynard James Keenan

The music industry doesn't exist the way it used to. You'll never have another star like the stars of the '90s.

Mika

I think between The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and innumerable acts after that... rock music became a huge economic force.

Mike Love

The '60s are my favorite decade - with the Cold War, the women's movement. And then there's the music, the fashion, the clothes, the hair.

Margot Robbie

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

Mary Roach

I did not want to be somebody who lived off his reputation. I wanted to continue to be part of the modern music scene.

Mick Rock

Actually, I never liked Dylan's kind of music before; I always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear.

Mick Ronson

Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Marilyn vos Savant

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Michael Tippett

Being a woman in music and having kids, it's very hard to do both without neglecting one a bit.

Martha Wainwright

In Atlanta, there's no limitation to where you can take your music. You can be as creative as you want to be.

Nayvadius Cash

I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music.

Neil Finn

I like places where you can dance to crazy music, like Bedlam or Eastern Bloc in the East Village.

Nicola Formichetti

I've learnt new scales through playing different types of music, like Indian raga scales, gipsy scales and harmonically-based jazz scales.

Nigel Kennedy

Public radio is the last oasis of free and independent music. For satellite radio channels, you have to subscribe; commercial stations are as corporate as basic cable.

Nellie McKay