Music Is Quotes - Page 17

• You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.

  Ornette Coleman

  Color, Gdp, Titles

  Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.

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• When I tour I'm going to countries to play music for people. My presence in a country is not an endorsement or a condemnation of that country's policies. My presence in a country is an effort to connect with people through playing music.

  Moby

  Country, Israel, Play

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• My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Guitar, Cadillacs, Hanging On

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• I seldom play in a trio, but acoustic music is likely to be lighter, quicker, and quieter.

  Bill Bruford

  Play, Acoustic Music, Acoustics

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• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Luciano Berio

  Spiritual, Ears, Demand

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• The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

  Ethan Coen

  Hiking, Everyday, Mountain

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• Someone like Russell Crowe is questioned for his passion for music, and whatever he does, music is just in his heart and soul. All he wants to do is music.

  Tina Yothers

  Passion, Heart, Soul

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• The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult.

  Beth Gibbons

  Inspiration, Add, Firsts

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• As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Simple, Long, Mind

  Interview with Spence D., Peer Schneider, Jeremy Dunham, www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, Wanted

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• Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Political, Trying

  "Duty of Expression". Interview with Sarah Burton, howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  Gary Wright

  Music, Art, Tools

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• I think all music is a gift from God.

  Pharrell Williams

  Music, Thinking, Gift From God

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Groove, Dialogue

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• We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

  Tina Weymouth

  Music, Together, Way

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• For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

  Wim Wenders

  Music, Luxury, World

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant.

  Nobuo Uematsu

  Understanding, Pleasant, Complexes

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. July 9, 2004.

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• England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

  Frederic Chopin

  Morning, Flower, Night

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• Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

  Skitch Henderson

  Stars, Writing, Play

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• ...yet, unbeknownst to him, it had been kept alive - and it was only now, in listening to Deet's songs, that he recognized that the secret source of its nourishment was music: he had always had a great love of dadras, chaitis, barahmasas, horis, kajris - songs such as Deeti was singing. Listening to her now, he knew why Bhojpuri was the language of this music: because of all the tongues spoken between the Ganges and the Indus, there was none that was its equal in the expression of the nuances of love, longing and separation - of the plight of those who leave and those who stay at home.

  Amitav Ghosh

  Love, Song, Home

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• My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Writing, Ties, Together

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• Music is the language of all. It tames the savage beast and allows us to get over heartbreak. It helps us express what we really want to say and it has the power to lift hearts and awaken our souls.

  James A. Murphy III

  Heart, Soul, Savages

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• Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

  David Rodigan

  People, Soul, Delight

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• Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years.

  James Black

  School, Math, Years

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• Music is a language, a universal language.

  Sun Ra

  Language, Universal Language, Universal

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