“For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.” ThinkingPlayHappensMusic IsPlaying MusicMeditating Author:Rick Wright
“Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time.” PeopleIfsFeelsWritingLongStillsHappensPassionMusic IsLong TimeThings HappenMy PassionMusic Is My Passion Author:Justin Bieber
“That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.” WayFirstsMeanFeelingsBigsHappensCertainEnergyQualityHappenedKingsMusicianMusic IsAmazing ThingsCrimsonTelepathyKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.” KnowsWellsI CanReasonShowsHappensFilmSpeakFeltMusicHappenedMusic IsDiedCamerasDamnFedsFed UpBrian Author:John Lennon
“Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool.” PeopleMeanLongHappensBrainNormalMusic IsFingersPopsJerk Author:Eddie Van Halen
“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.” FeelsHappensAbleCertainRoomsChildhoodMusic IsSmellGreat ThingsYour ChildrenCapabilityTime Travel Author:M. Ward
“There is no piece of music that could relate to anything else but itself and its world. It is truly an independent. The one thing coplanar with music is the compositional aspect, the fact that you are composing something. Architecture is essentially a score, and what happens with it depends on the people who play it, enjoy it, use it, or hate it.” PeopleWorldPlayFactsUseHappensHateEnjoyPiecesOne ThingDependsMusic IsAspectIndependentArchitectureRelateScoreComposing Author:Rafael Vinoly
“Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.” ArtHappensFormLanguageMusicMusic IsMusic Love Author:Herbie Hancock
“Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.” IfsWorldHappensLyingPeaceMusicThis WorldChangedMusicianMusic IsGuitarFake PeopleGreat MusicGuitaristInspirational MusicPower Of MusicMusic SoulMusic LifeWorld MusicBlues MusicFamous MusicianMusic Is LifeOld MusicGuitar MusicMusic ArtistPassion For MusicMusic Is My Passion Author:Jimi Hendrix
“Nowadays, not to say that that doesn't happen, but music is made a lot almost in a laboratory where you get one guy working in one studio, they send the file to another guy in some other part of the world, they send it back and then they send it this way and that way. Musicianship is kind of - there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, some great music is made that way.” WorldWayKindMadeFactsHappensGuyMusic IsStudiosFilesLaboratoryOther GuysGreat MusicMusicianship Author:Dave Koz
“Regarding race or gender or sexuality, one of the great things about art and music is that they can provide people with very little else in common with a similar entry point for discussion, but the discussions still need to happen for life to get more interesting.” PeopleNeedsLittlesArtStillsHappensInterestingCommonRaceMusic IsGenderSexualityGreat ThingsDiscussionEntryArt And Music Author:Babatunde Adebimpe
“I think the most important thing about dance music is the connection. If you put 80,000 people together, no one knows each other, and once the music starts, everyone loves each other. That doesn't happen with a lot of genres. If you go to a hip-hop club, it's not like when one songs comes on that everyone suddenly loves each other.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsImportantHappensTogetherSongMusic IsConnectionsImportant ThingsHip HopClubsHipsGenreHopsOne LoveLove Each OtherDance Music Author:Afrojack
“Well you can see that I'm still in motion. It happens that you share the music with the audience. That is the best happiness an artist can have. I'm not alone on stage but with a group of musicians. So the more the music is successful, the more the audience feel happy about the music. It's the responsiblity of an artist to make his fans happy. That is proposition. I'm always talking about proposition.” FeelsWellsStillsHappensArtistTalkingAudienceSuccessfulGroupsShareFansStageMusicianMusic IsPropositionsNot Alone Author:Manu Dibango
“You know that one don't play music just for the hours to pass. But you play music because you are in love with music and luckily if it happens that people like what I'm proposing, then I'm happy. Although music is business, yet you don't start thinking about money from the initial stages when you are in music. First propose to the people what they want and if they like it, then the money comes later.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantFirstsPlayHappensHoursStageMusic IsInitialsPropose Author:Manu Dibango
“Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.” HappensEnergyMusic IsDetermineExact Sciences Author:Talib Kweli
“If the music is good, and if it makes sense as a strong structure and as a drama, and things happen as a result of what happened before, not just as a string of unrelated events, then the question doesn't come up.” IfsHappensStrongResultsHappenedEventsDramaMusic IsStructureCome UpThings HappenMake SenseStrings Author:Missy Mazzoli
“There's some ambient music that doesn't do anything. I wouldn't say that that's narrative. It is narrative in that it creates a sort of world where nothing happens, where really nothing happens, so you become a different person after hearing eight minutes of exactly the same thing. Yes, I hear music all the time in which one idea is strung together to another idea, and I feel that such music is non-narrative.” WorldFeelsPersonsIdeasDifferentHappensTogetherMinutesMusic IsEightHearingThings HappenNarrativeAmbientAmbient Music Author:Missy Mazzoli
“Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.” FeelsWellsRealHappensKnownMusic IsWell KnownReal Music Author:Frank Fairfield
“I make the music as if I was scoring it. I do my best that the sounds will fit the theme of that track, but then there are many other times where it can be random and things happen for no reason, just for fun! A storyline can let me organize changes in the music better, like acts in a play.” IfsReasonPlayHappensFunSoundFitMusic IsLet MeTrackThings HappenThemeNo ReasonOrganizeStorylineJust For Fun Author:DJ QBert
“The way I work on music is that I go into my studio, and I start playing music, and I see what happens, and... I never think about it.” ThinkingWayHappensMusic IsStudiosPlaying Music Author:Moby