“I didn't know if it would be a successful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter...I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along...I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't...The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingKindDifferentMomentsWould BeAgeFacesAudienceSuccessfulSawsStageParticularMusicianMusic IsConcernedLifetimeFinishedDifferent KindsSongwritersKeep The FaithDifferent Kinds Of Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I've always loved the music... My favorite kind of music is Christmas music and the only thing I love better music is my wife and daughters. So, hanging out with my wife and daughters and cuddling them will be pretty cool.” KindLove IsWifeMusic IsDaughterMy FavoriteMy WifeHanging OutThings I LoveCuddlingWife And DaughterChristmas Music Author:Keith Getty
“Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.” ThinkingKindTurnsMusicMusic IsClassicTunesClassical MusicMusic LovePlaying MusicFunny MusicMusic LoverClassic MusicClassical Musicians Author:Kin Hubbard
“You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.” WantKindIdeasWholeAmericaPastChurchRecordsAliveOne ThingStreetsMusic IsCatRadioAll KindsHistory Of Music Author:Jerry Garcia
“No one's being precious about their music. They want the film to be great. And that was the huge lesson for me along the way to be a filmmaker. And yes, I'm leading the music department kind of thing and that responsibility with the music is with me, but really that job is one of many.” WayWantKindJobsFilmResponsibilityHugeLessonsMusic IsFilmmakerDepartment Author:Steven Price
“I don't want to pooh-pooh modern pop. I appreciate that as well, but my personal favorite kind of music is guitar-based rock. I like grunge and garage bands and alternative music, but that's more my personal taste.” WantWellsKindModernRocksTasteBandMusic IsAppreciateGuitarPopsAlternativesGarageGrungePersonal TasteAlternative Music Author:Al Yankovic
“Um, well my main profession is acting and music is what I love doing. It's kind of nice like that in a way because it means I'm under no real pressure with the music. I have got complete creative control and I can make whatever I want. So, that takes a lot of the pressures off because there's no financial pressure. And it's something I've always loved doing.” WayWantWellsKindMeanI CanRealActingCreativeNiceMusic IsPressureFinancialProfessionFinancial Pressure Author:Iwan Rheon
“I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I'm talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it's not just for one kind of group.” PeopleWantFirstsKindHelpingGuySexTalkingAcceptingGroupsColorMusic Is Author:ASAP Rocky
“I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I dont care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.” TryingKindCareArtistMusic IsDon't CareI Don't CareExcitementBest Artist Author:Jimmy Iovine
“I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it's simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.” PeopleThinkingKindHas BeensRealCountryEnoughStuffSimpleMusic IsSingingReal Stuff Author:Dolly Parton
“Music is what is going to save me," "On the bad days, when I have to look at the cold, hard facts of life, I see that this is not the music business I came up in and I have to be very, very objective and detached and say, 'what's good about it and what's bad about it?' Mostly, I'm finding it good that it's not the same old music business, because the music business I came up in really didn't advance anything I was doing, and I don't think it was particularly kind to a lot of artists.” ThinkingLooksKindHardFactsArtistColdFindingsMusic IsObjectivesBad DayMusic BusinessFacts Of LifeDetachedSave MeOld Music Author:Phoebe Snow
“I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksKindNamesModernMusic IsBuiltHearingSimilarityGhettoWorld MusicModern MusicAfrican Music Author:Baaba Maal
“A lot of blues music seems like it's moving away from God, or the center, and Gospel music is moving towards it. It's embracing a higher reality. When you look a little closer, the way that I define it or explain it, is that the blues is the naked cry of the human heart, apart from God. People are searching for union with God. They're searching to be home. There's something in people that seeks this union with their creator. Why am I here? Where am I going? What's it all about? Who am I? All this kind of stuff.” PeopleWayHumansLooksHeartKindLittlesHomeRealitySeemsMovingStuffCryHigherMusic IsUnionsCreatorNakedHuman HeartMoving AwayBlues MusicGospel Music Author:Dion DiMucci
“A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time...so that's how it all came about” KindDoneBigsParentListeningGrewBandGrew UpMusic IsLondonFantasticGood Times Author:Frances Ruffelle
“The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd never written music before when I was in the group, ... Now the music is my music, so it's kind of like my baby, and that was a whole different experience.” KnowsWritingKindMeanDifferentWholeKidsWrittenGroupsBabyMusic IsSongwritingStandpointMy BabyDifferent Experiences Author:Joey McIntyre
“I have a notebook that I take with me everywhere. I free-write in it when there are situations that I know I can write a song about. I will just start writing everything that I can think of while trying to write some things that are kind of poetic or sound like they could be in a song. Then, after the music is written, I go back and look at my subjects to see which one I think woud go with what music. Then, I formulate it into a melody and get the song.” ThinkingKnowsWritingTryingLooksKindI CanSongSoundSituationWrittenSubjectsMusic IsPoeticMelodyNotebook Author:Agent M
“I grew up listening to all kinds of music, everything from country to rock, pop, R&B and even rap, so for me, music is music and a great song is a great song.” KindCountrySongRocksListeningGrewGrew UpMusic IsPopsRapAll Kinds Author:Jason Aldean
“In all the music I've done, what I'm really interested in above all else, and I'm not sure it's what one should be interested in, is the kind of - you know, people talk about work progressions, which doesn't really make sense with pop music because there is no progression, because there is no tonic, because there is no more tonality.” PeopleKnowsShouldKindDoneMusic IsPopsMake SenseNot SureProgressionPop Music Author:John Maus
“Music is kind of a strange business, and it's too weird of a job to have mean, conniving people around.” PeopleKindMeanJobsStrangeMusic IsConniving Author:Annie E. Clark
“I think the best thing about music is that someone could be writing a song that's so personal, and it tells so many other people's story at the same time. It kind of exemplifies that we are all kind of on the same wave[length] - it's amazing how comforting somebody else's story can be, because we have experienced their story in some way or another, and I can totally relate, and I get to feel that feeling and the expression of that emotion. I get to feel like as a listener, that somebody understands me, which is pretty incredible.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingKindI CanStoriesFeelingsSongEmotionExpressionMusic IsIncrediblesWaveAll KindsRelateBest ThingsLengthListenersComfortingUnderstand Me Author:Theresa Wayman
“And music is kind of a - it's like a finicky industry to be in of course. Like, tastes change. You're hot one minute; you're not - you know, I've been through it quite a few times, like, on both sides of it.” KnowsKindCoursesSidesMinutesIndustryTasteMusic IsHotBoth SidesOne Minute Author:Mark Ronson
“Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right.” MindKindHelpingMusic IsHelp Me Author:Darrell Wallace Jr.
“I find this kind of folk with guys in Wellington boots and washboards not good to listen to. That music is one step away from barn dancing as far as I'm concerned. Anyone under the age of 60 should not be wearing Wellington boots on stage.” ShouldKindAgeGuyStepsStageMusic IsConcernedDancingFolksBootsBarnsWellington Author:Johnny Marr
“I always like to think I build in historically accurate musical in-jokes that are so precise that like maybe there's 7 or 8 people in the world watching the show that will sit up and go, "Oh my God the music being played is the right kind of music!"” PeopleThinkingWorldKindShowsMusic IsJokesMusicalAccuratePreciseBeing Played Author:Bear McCreary
“I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.” PeopleWritingKindBeautifulSongEasyRealizingSadnessMusic IsWorthwhileWriting Music Author:Frankie Cosmos
“There's this food that's evolved over thousands of years and people have made their own kind of thing, but it's not art-food, yet. It can be, but it's just food. It's the thing that people do because they have to, because they need it. I feel music is one of those things, too.” PeopleNeedsFeelsYearsKindArtMadeMusic Is Author:Frank Fairfield
“It's not like I'm narrating stories with music behind them. It's all kind of one thing. You hope you can provoke a specific emotional reaction, but in ways that aren't quite plain.” WayKindStoriesBehindsOne ThingEmotionalMusic IsReactionsAll KindsProvokingEmotional Reactions Author:Jonathan Meiburg
“I wouldn't say music is my passion, or my calling, or anything like that. I mean, I don't really believe in that kind of stuff. Life is a series of chance happenings, so I just fell into it.” BelieveKindMeanLife IsPassionStuffChanceCallingMusic IsHappeningsSeriesMy PassionMusic Is My Passion Author:Zachary Cole Smith
“I always thought the piano scene was kind of unique to shoot because we were actually able to film with the playback of the actual song. And that was quite amazing because it almost made it easier - music is usually something that is added after filming has finished so to be able to shoot a scene with music was really wonderful.” KindMadeAbleFilmSongWonderfulEasierSceneMusic IsUniqueFinishedMade ItPiano Author:Mia Wasikowska
“I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.” PeopleThinkingKindPlayRunningAgeRichMusic IsStudiosComplexityRunning AwayRichnessRecording Studio Author:Tod Machover
“On one hand you have a string quartet, which is not a symphony. On the other hand is you have me sampling them and making it sound like there is many more people playing, so the whole notion of, kind of, sampling applied to classical music is very intriguing to me because composers throughout history have borrowed motifs and quotes from one another.” PeopleKindWholeHandsSoundMusic IsNotionStringsComposerSymphonyClassical MusicBorrowedIntriguingQuartetsMotifsSamplingString Quartets Author:DJ Spooky
“There is a complexity and layering that goes on with this kind of thing, so the music is slightly repetitive and when I say repetitive it's in the same tradition as people like Steve Reich or Erik Satie or even WC.” PeopleKindGoes OnMusic IsTraditionComplexityRepetitive Author:DJ Spooky
“It's nice that psychedelic music is kind of a buzzword. When I started with Vincent Black Shadow, stoner-rock was getting big, but it was more of a riff-oriented thing. Now people are starting to get into the 60's-Pink Floyd-acid-pop viewpoint.” PeopleKindBigsBlackNiceRocksMusic IsShadowStartingPopsAcidPsychedelicViewpointsStoners Author:Mike Romano
“I guess music is just something I've kind of always done. I never really thought too much about it, it was just another way to create, and I did it as a pretty young lad.” WayKindDoneYoungToo MuchMusic IsAnother WayLad Author:BØRNS
“I love making music. I feel like people often get into that 'you should only make music for yourself' kind of place, where they say things like, "I don't write for other people, I write for myself," and I feel like that misses the mark so much because music, especially pop music, is so much more than yourself.” PeopleFeelsShouldWritingKindMissingMusic IsMarkPopsPop MusicLove Making Author:Thomston
“Music is a conversation between people and their community, you know, people and - and deejaying, it is a way of amplifying that conversation and kind of putting that conversation on blast in a way. But at a very basic level, it's records talking to records.” PeopleKnowsWayKindCommunityLevelsTalkingRecordsConversationMusic IsBlast Author:DJ /rupture
“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
“Because of the irresistible nature of our own Imagos, I think the replication of it in music is a siren song - we love those tormented songs, and we listen to them over and over and over the way that we smash ourselves into our lovers, or the same kind of lover, over and over. That drive is tireless, until it is resolved. And we can "enjoy" it safely through music, which is a simulacrum we have power over.” ThinkingWayKindSongEnjoyLoversMusic IsIrresistibleSirensSimulacrumReplicationSiren Song Author:Melissa Febos
“[Music] is the one thing that connects the dots in all kinds of ways. No matter how you were brought up, no matter what your religious background or political beliefs, people still love to sing along with somebody.” PeopleWayKindStillsMatterPoliticalBeliefReligiousOne ThingMusic IsNo Matter WhatBackgroundsAll KindsDotsPolitical Beliefs Author:Kenny Chesney
“What I like or dislike in music is my internal affair. I never want an audience out there to be influenced because John said. I don't want to have to endure that kind of nonsense. I work for the art of the individual.” WantKindArtSaidIndividualAudienceMusic IsEndureAffairNonsenseInternalsDislikeInternal Affairs Author:John Lydon
“I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.” ThinkingWorldGivingKindReasonFeelingsWrittenMusic IsUpliftingDepressingCredenceSad Music Author:Conor O'Brien
“The music is notated first, the text follows. I might have to wait until the right kind of text or form arises. I often see the poems as “scores.”” FirstsKindMightFormWaitingMusic IsAriseScore Author:Anne Waldman
“Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of tempo because of the inherent constraints that our bodies offer, or you can call them 'affordances' - that's another word for me. It's a little more positive; doesn't make it seem like a limitation, but rather, a set of opportunities. You can say that that's part of music making, but there's also the imagination. The power of the imagination is kind of trumping - sorry to have to use that word.” KindMovingOpportunityImaginationMusic IsSorryLimitation Author:Vijay Iyer
“We think of music as this substance that flows - you turn on the tap, and there it is, streaming off your computer - but that's not how we evolved as a species. We evolved to listen to each other, and the reason we're able to listen to music in the terms is talking about is because we're really good at listening to each other. But this kind of technology has allowed us to forget that music is the sound of each other.” ThinkingKindReasonTermForgetTechnologyListeningComputerMusic IsListening To MusicStreaming Author:Vijay Iyer
“I think that music is still a mystery to most people. It kind of goes through most people without a specific thought. They feel the music, which is what's supposed to happen. They're not supposed to be curious about who wrote the music; they're supposed to feel what the show is trying to get them to feel. So if I help get that feeling across, that's good enough for me.” PeopleThinkingTryingKindEnoughHelpingFeelingsMysteryMusic IsCuriousGood Enough Author:Gabriel Mann
“I know that my music is heard a lot in commercial circles. In academia, I think my music is taken in differently but I'm not sure why that is. Some kind of sixth sense tells me that people in that world are thinking differently about it. I don't know if it has to do with the structure of my music, which is probably more apparent to those in the academic world than it is in the commercial world, where people tend not to think of that aspect of music so much. They just listen for pure enjoyment.” PeopleThinkingWorldKindTakenMusic IsNot SureEnjoymentAcademicJust ListenSixth Sense Author:Jennifer Higdon
“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
“My favorite kind of music is the stuff that stops time. You put something on to sit there and let an experience go through you. To look at yourself clearly through a song. It's true of all art, all mediums, but for some reason music has a direct line straight into people.” PeopleKindArtReasonSongMusic IsDirectMy FavoriteLook At YourselfStop Time Author:Jeff Buckley