“I think music is a very personal thing and it doesn't necessarily have to be experienced one way or another, but the album experience is a completely different thing than the single experience.” ThinkingWayDifferentMusic IsAlbumsOne WayDifferent ThingsPersonal Things Author:Mark Stoermer
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.” KindDifferentTodayNationsRealizingUnitedCommunicationAmountPeriodsMusic IsVarietyDifferent KindsFrankOutletsGreat AmericanJustinSteroidTime Periods Author:Robert Davi
“That's beautiful that you want to expand your music and do different things. Music is so beautiful and powerful.” WantDifferentBeautifulPowerfulMusic IsDifferent Things Author:DJ Khaled
“Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.” WayMindWellsDifferentInspirationCulturePeriodsMusic IsFoundationDifferent Cultures Author:Erykah Badu
“Rap music is a combination of many different arts to make something new. There's always been a stigma that its existence would be short and only appeal to a certain group - but it's the biggest music in the world.” WorldArtDifferentWould BeCertainExistenceGroupsMusic IsRapAppealsCombinationSomething NewStigmaRap Music Author:Chance the Rapper
“My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are able to look back at what you created when you finish. Recording music is an entirely different monster. When you finally write something, you do a demo and then you go into the studio. Doing the master version, that's the best feeling ever - especially when you're so proud of what you've written, and you can't wait for people to hear it. That's actually very similar to trying to tell a story in a wrestling match.” PeopleWorldWritingTryingLooksDifferentStoriesFeelingsAbleWaitingWrittenPaintingMastersProudMusic IsStudiosMonstersVersionsPeacefulWrestlingPeaceful WorldDemosRecording Music Author:Jeff Hardy
“Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.” PeopleDifferentDoneFactsGenerationsMusic IsTheaterMusicalNew GenerationMusical Theater Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg
“When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.” PeopleWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentSoulHomeYoungSoundStruggleGenerationsPoetMusic IsJazzMeetingsDrinkingNotionCoffeeAtmosphereLoudCellphoneDrinking CoffeeBusiness Meeting Author:Patti Smith
“When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!” PeopleDifferentGamesSoundMusic IsBeatsBallsExcitingSouthHip HopHipsHopsSouth AfricaNigeriaSierraBall GamesAfrosSierra Leone Author:Ice Prince
“We're all different and I respect my difference. I just try to be myself at all times. As long as I do that my music is always going to be different.” TryingLongDifferentDifferencesMusic IsAll Time Author:Ab-Soul
“It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people to hear the music and be like, "Oh, sh*t! I mess with this Pitbull kid."” PeopleDifferentKidsOrderFightingLanguageMusic IsUniversalBoundariesMessTrue MeaningUniversal Language Author:Pitbull
“When I give a concert, I know they're not going to hear everything; there might be a lot going on. My individual perceptual and cognitive path through the music is just that: one path through music. My experience will be probably at some level different from other people's, and that multiplicity of experience has to be supported by the music. I might just focus on the cowbell the whole time - maybe I have a fever for more cowbell!” GivingDifferentIndividualPathFocusMusic IsMultiplicity Author:Vijay Iyer
“Music is an extremely powerful art medium that can really affect people's emotions. It is amazing to realize how much communities can be born from different kinds of music and the people who appreciate them.” PeopleKindArtDifferentRealizingCommunityPowerfulEmotionMusic IsAppreciateDifferent Kinds Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I'm not an R&B singer, I'm a singer. I can sing any music that makes me feel inspired whether it's Country, a little bit of Rock and roll but within my roots as well. I'm not going too far with it, but it'll be within my roots. I feel like trying a different way to express my music because so many people have already taken from what I've done in the past and it kind of makes me not want to ever do anything that I've done before.” PeopleTryingKindDifferentCountryDonePastTakenMusic IsInspired Author:Brandy Norwood
“People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different languages and we could just be like, "You want to play that song? Yeah, okay." We would usually want to play Latin American songs, and they would usually want to play Santana or Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. So we would trade off. So yeah, we were able to make a lot of friends that way and meet a lot of local musicians. It was a great experience.” PeopleDifferentSongLanguageLike YouMusicianMusic IsOkayTradeLatinLatin AmericaHendrixVery True Author:Jherek Bischoff
“It's a video world now, you know? It's not a musical world. It's a video world. I can watch videos. I see videos, you know, Britney Spears, she's sexy. I like to watch her videos. It's not like the music is what I'm hearing. It's different now. But it's not my world. It's the world of young people and they have what they want and they have what the technology and the society produces as a result of all these advancements that have occurred. And the in the future we'll have something else. Maybe we'll have holograms and, you know, all kinds of stuff.” PeopleWorldKindDifferentTechnologyMusic IsMusicalSexyAll Kinds Author:Don McLean
“I have a song entitled "Just Ain't My Day" that is a straight country song almost. My vocals are very soulful it's a different kind of record but people's response to it is beyond powerful. Proving that good music is good music regardless of the genre.” KindDifferentCountrySongPowerfulProveMusic IsResponseDifferent KindsSoulful Author:K.Michelle
“I am not really thinking, I am just, working with the music. And people have asked me, why don't you say more, or why do you not have singers, or why don't you sing? I think it's because, if I would have words for what I am doing, I I could write. But I really don't. It's a whole different thing. And I think it's one of the beauty of instrumental music is that it can be background. It can be what people call "easy listening." But it's really one of those things where it's as much as you are willing to give it.” PeopleThinkingGivingWritingDifferentEasyListeningMusic Is Author:Ottmar Liebert
“What we're doing now, is to try to eradicate the limited notion of how people are interacting with each other through hyper-racialized ideas. A lot of it deal with, as an example, genre. If I ask you to visualize a trap musician or a hip-hop musician, you'll see one thing. If I say visualize a western classical musician, you'll see a very different thing. A lot of how music is disseminated to us is hyper-racialized. It's not something that we think about all the time, but if you take a minute to look back, it's why you get this argument when there's a white rapper.” PeopleThinkingTryingDifferentMusicianMusic IsArgumentWesternRapperClassical MusicRap Music Author:Christian Scott
“My only advice as an experience older singer is about singing, it isn't about music. To have a career in music is a completely different question and leads to other kinds of advice and other kind of experts. All you can do is someone planted in my mind very early on, this wonderful truism called, "Fortune favors the prepared mind." Be passionate about being a musician. There is no limit to how hard you must work and how detailed you must be in every facet of what you do, either as a singer, as a musician, or as a person.” MindKindDifferentWonderfulAdviceMusicianMusic IsSingingPassionateTruism Author:Thomas Hampson
“We've got a lot of love from Chicago, you know we've been selling out big venues in Chicago that other people don't sell out. Our music is something that's a bit different you know from what's being publicized and that's going against everything else coming out in Chicago.” PeopleDifferentMusic IsSellingSelling Out Author:Vic Mensa
“I find that the quest to be perfect and make perfect music is like a black whole. I realize that you can come with the intention to capture a vibe and use a formula, but you have to accept that most of the time its not going to be what you envisioned and you might manifest something better. I think that's been the hardest thing to wrap my head around that most ideas we go for ends up sounding different. I think art in general should be about enjoying the process and the experience. All that matters is if you feel the music and it captures the element your going for.” ThinkingArtDifferentEnjoyBlackRealizingPerfectAcceptingMusic IsIntentionManifest Author:Jillian Hervey
“I don't want to do a gimmick. It's a bummer that that's how it is. I would say, personally speaking, consuming music now is harder than it was before. It's like being stuck in a slot machine. There's just so much noise. It's just constant noise. It's harder to clear your head and give the time to music that a lot of it really deserves. It's really crazy how different your relationship to an album or music becomes, even if it's digital, if you spend the $7 to $10 on it. It forms this relationship where you're not just going to throw it away.” GivingDifferentCrazyMusic IsDeserveStuckOur Relationship Author:Ed Droste
“One of the things I'm adamant about as a bandleader is not micromanaging. I'm an advocate for the concept of allowing everyone to be fully vested in what they're doing, so everyone contributes whatever they're inspired to contribute. Our music is not about me; I contribute one part, one experience, and drummer Terreon Gully brings something completely different.” DifferentMusic IsInspiredDrummer Author:Stefon Harris
“I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live music is just like a method of emptying out the mind through volume. Volume as a form that allows you to do different things. And that doesn't really translate to recorded music, like how do you listen to that, on Spotify or in your car? It's not the same kind of effect. I would say that the loudness is a huge part of what I do live.” MindKindDifferentArtistCarMusic IsTranslate Author:Tim Hecker
“My music is music that Christians and Catholics can listen to. Muslims. Buddhists. And non-religious people as well. It's just music. You can look at the music in several different ways. It's music for everybody.” PeopleDifferentChristianMusic IsCatholicBuddhist Author:Jeremy Enigk
“I would go into my three different sisters' rooms in the early-mid '70s and they had very specific different tastes in music. I specifically remember lying on my different sisters' bedroom floors and listening to their record collections. And "Starship Trooper" was one of my sister Nancy's favorite songs and favorite album. Music is so defining for me. In the late '70s and early '80s, I worked in radio. When I was in high school, I worked at two different radio stations.” DifferentSchoolRememberLyingSongListeningMusic IsHigh SchoolMy SisterBedroomFavorite Song Author:Thomas Haden Church
“A lot of Gorillaz songs were very personal. I mean, that's why it was interesting, because it wasn't music being made for a cartoon. It was something different. It was a much more emotional affair. I wasn't necessarily thinking in the third-person then.” ThinkingMeanDifferentSongInterestingEmotionalMusic IsAffairCartoon Author:Damon Albarn
“Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want. The lyrics of my songs are about different things, but it's all about my issues.” PeopleDifferentSongMusic Is Author:Gustav Ejstes
“I like a lot of hardcore, but it's just a genre about which I don't have much to say. It's kind of a thing where, unless you're active in the hardcore community, what could you have to say of value about it? It resists criticism because it's not just a style but an entrance into several different worlds of ideas- political, philosophical, societal. The music is really only part of the whole scene. In that sense, the music doesn't change much because it shouldn't: It needs to be there as a signal that you're entering into a certain discursive mode, maybe.” WorldKindDifferentPoliticalValuesCommunityStyleSceneMusic IsCriticismPhilosophicalHardcore Author:John Darnielle
“Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.” ArtSaidDifferentWholeFormCareersOne ThingInfluenceMusic IsOrganizationPopsReally GreatPop MusicDisposableGreat Influence Author:Cyndi Lauper
“Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way.” WayDifferentActingMusic IsDifferent WaysIntuitive Author:Katey Sagal
“I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsPersonsArtDifferentReasonMightFormPurposeSongAttitudeMusic IsMusicalBackgroundsListening To MusicBackground Music Author:Eddie Vedder
“Classical music and pop are two different universes, each with its own difficulties, peculiarities, depth and artistic dignity. In Italy, I think there is a fairly clear line of demarcation, but the history of music is full of fusion. Popular and classical music have always found points of contact, of crossing, exchange, both drawing mutual profit.” ThinkingTwoDifferentUniverseFoundLinesClearMusic IsDignityDifficultyDepthProfitPopsDrawingContactArtisticMutualClassical MusicCrossingsFusionHistory Of MusicDifferent Universes Author:Andrea Bocelli