“The '70s were full of creativity. Everybody was so unique. It was a very creative period, and I think to be a designer you have to know a little about art and literature and music because there is inspiration in all of these things. You're looking for beauty but also something that makes sense.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesArtInspirationLiteratureCreativityCreativePeriodsMusic IsUniqueMake SenseDesignerLiterature And Music Author:Carolina Herrera
“I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.” KnowsStillsMusic IsHaircuts Author:Ringo Starr
“I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.” KnowsWantedUnderstandingBehindsListeningMusic Is Author:Justin Adams
“I have got to look at the flip side of things, because, in a way, music is always a conversation, you know? It's a conversation between the musician and their tools and their technologies.” KnowsWayLooksSidesTechnologyConversationMusicianMusic IsToolsFlip Author:DJ /rupture
“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
“I know that I loved music before I loved movies, simply because I didn't see movies as a kid.” KnowsKidsMusic Is Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“Well, right now, my music is - it's just happy. I'm not in a relationship, but I know who I am now. I have wisdom. I have the power of knowing who I am. That's huge.” KnowsWellsKnowingHugeRight NowMusic IsWho I Am Author:Michel'le
“Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantCharacterActorsSpeakKnow HowMusic IsInsert Author:Chuck Berry
“Theory and harmony broadened my mind in music. I know what music is made of.” KnowsMindMadeTheoryMusic IsHarmony Author:Nina Simone
“In America we're in this awful situation, and you know, I hardly get any royalties anymore because music is just stolen from the internet.” KnowsAmericaSituationInternetMusic IsAwfulStolenRoyalty Author:Terry Bozzio
“I really think kids should understand that music is like learning the alphabet. You put small letters together to make words, and then you use these words to create a story, but with music. And they really need to know how to mix and match those letters and how to come up with something that is really interesting, or speak in metaphors as poets do to show us something maybe we didn't think about.” ThinkingKnowsNeedsShouldStoriesUseShowsKidsTogetherSpeakInterestingKnow HowPoetMusic IsLettersMetaphorCome UpReally InterestingAlphabet Author:Terry Bozzio
“We all, we all good people just trying to escape the negative influence that come around us and that's the story of my life, you know? Trying my best to get around the ills and I bumped my head a few times but I think, you know, music is my savior for right now, for me and my whole group.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTryingWholeStoriesGroupsInfluenceRight NowMusic IsNegativeSaviorGood PeopleStory Of My LifeNegative Influence Author:Kendrick Lamar
“Music is a universal language insofar as you don't need to know anything else about a musician that you are playing with other than that they can play music. It doesn't matter what their music is, you can find something that you can play together, with what their culture is. The dialect part of it comes into play, but nothing like the differentiation that language sets up, for example.” KnowsNeedsMatterPlayTogetherCultureLanguageExampleMusicianMusic IsUniversalDialectUniversal LanguageDifferentiation Author:Jerry Garcia
“People are still hearing your music. They might not be buying it, but they might be having it and you don't know it. Your music is still out there.” PeopleKnowsStillsMightMusic IsHearingBuying Author:Keith Sweat
“What is missing in a lot of urban music is perspective. You hear a lot of regurgitated perspective. It's a lot of: out at the club. Had drinks. Patrón. Big booties. It's this regurgitated idea of living in this, I don't know, one-night-stand moment that always starts at the club and Patrón. And so perspective, perspective, perspective is what I'm an advocate of.” KnowsIdeasMomentsBigsNightMissingPerspectiveDrinkMusic IsClubsUrbanOne NightOne Night StandBootyUrban Music Author:Miguel
“Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns.” KnowsWholeSeemsEnergySoundPrayerPaintingMusic IsPicksRepeatsVibrationsMantrasHymnsGroovy Author:George Harrison
“Music is one of the ways by which you can know everything which is going on in the world. You can feel... through music... Whew... you can feel the vibrations of everybody in the world at any given moment.” KnowsWorldWayFeelsMomentsGivenMusic IsVibrations Author:Nina Simone
“In all honesty, based on the direction my life was heading in before I got a real break in the music sh*t, I'm not gonna say I would be one hundred percent in a negative direction, but I know that I would still be in the streets, so if it wasn't for the music bein' my outlet, I'd probably be hustlin', I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be able to go and get a nine-to-five, I never finished high school or none of that.” IfsKnowsStillsRealWould BeAbleSchoolBreakFiveStreetsHonestyMusic IsPercentHundredHigh SchoolNegativeFinishedNineOutletsHeadings Author:Nipsey Hussle
“What excites me is doing shows now. I don't really get excitement from doing music because you never know what your music is going to bring. It seems like now it's all for nothing.” KnowsShowsSeemsMusic IsExcitement Author:Ginuwine
“I heard these stories [about musicians from my mother] and somehow music, it was my understanding what my father had done. I didn't know it was misinformation. It sort of inwardly in my psyche laid the template for music being affiliated with my father and my family.” KnowsDoneStoriesMotherFatherUnderstandingHeardMusicianMusic IsMy FamilyMisinformation Author:Jon Gordon
“Phil [Wood] said to me in the car going back, he said, "Look man, you better know why you're playing this music. Because I've known too many who lived and died for it. And if you're not trying to change the world, I'm not interested."” IfsKnowsMenWorldTryingLooksSaidKnownCarMusic IsDiedWoodsChanging The WorldNot InterestedTrying To Change Author:Jon Gordon
“Irish music is guts, balls and feet music, yeah? It's frenetic dance music, yeah? Or it's impossibly sad like slow music, yeah? Yeah? And it also handles all sorts of subjects, from rebel songs to comical songs about sex, you know what I mean, yeah? Which I don't think people realize how much innuendo there is in Irish music.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMeanSongSexRealizingFeetSubjectsMusic IsBallsYeahHandleGutsRebelComicalDance MusicInnuendoIrish Music Author:Shane MacGowan
“My attitude towards my time as a musician, is that I really wanted to completely reinvent myself and not be one of these people who, twenty, thirty years later, is trying to recreate something that happened. I'm glad that Neil Young still makes records, but I don't know that everybody needs to be frozen in time forever. I think it's good that pop music is ephemeral.” PeopleThinkingKnowsNeedsTryingYearsStillsWantedYoungAttitudeForeverRecordsHappenedMusicianMusic IsTwentiesPopsGladThirtyMy TimeFrozenPop MusicThirty YearsMy AttitudeEphemeralFrozen In Time Author:Kurt Ralske
“I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'” KnowsLooksBigsFacesStuffPresidentKnow HowRecordsMusic IsPicksWho You AreLabelsLanesRecord Labels Author:Bruno Mars
“Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldStillsLanguageCommunicationMusic IsSingingGood Communication Author:Lou Rawls
“Any real record person knows that the number one most powerful marketing tool when it comes to music is repetition.” KnowsPersonsRealPowerfulNumbersRecordsMusic IsToolsMarketingMost PowerfulRepetition Author:Nile Rodgers
“The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.” IfsKnowsNeedsPersonsMadeSometimesGuyHateSoundWonderfulRocksBandMusic IsWonderful ThingsThat GuyRock Music Author:Bruce Springsteen
“My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.” KnowsCountrySimpleMusic IsDefinitionsReally Pretty Author:Taylor Swift