“Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.” WorldFeelsBigsWantedNamesPerfectThis WorldMusic IsMark Author:Big Sean
“One day when I have a band I will have a band name, but since it's just me I feel it should just be my name. For me it doesn't make much sense since the music is from me and about me. I haven't ever been in a band.” FeelsShouldNamesHavensOne DayBandMusic Is Author:Sharon Van Etten
“I have a theory - if the music is good and you have good musicians, the name doesn't matter that much. There are a lot of examples of that. The name is just a calling card.” IfsMatterNamesExampleTheoryCallingMusicianMusic IsCards Author:Joey Tempest
“Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingFirstsWellsMightJesusNamesChristianityRocksMusic IsPossessionRock N RollRock And RollPublishersChuckBerries Author:John Lennon
“Folk music isn't owned by anybody. It is owned by everybody, like the national parks, the postal system, and the school system. It's our common property. There is nobody's name on it. Nobody can make money on it. It's not copywritten.” SchoolNamesCommonMusic IsPropertyFolksMaking MoneyParksFolk MusicNational ParksSchool System Author:Utah Phillips
“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
“I'm happy to say that I have not been fired off a film. The score is usually the last thing to be done. So a lot lands on the scores shoulders. A lot of problems that seem to have nothing to do with the music gets blamed on the music , because it's relatively cheap to change, where as a reshoot etc is not. Music is often expected to help or fix bad cuts, bad acting, bad filming, bad timing, you name it.” DoneHelpingProblemSeemsLastsFilmNamesActingCuttingLandMusic IsExpectedShouldersScoreEtcTimingBad ActingBad Timing Author:Trevor Rabin
“You don't pigeonhole yourself, people pigeonhole you. If the world is not at a place yet where it can just be like, "This music is gay and it's music," then it's not my fault that it gets pigeonholed, it's not the people in the band's fault, it's because people won't just let music be music, people who need to put a name on something or to critique something.” PeopleIfsWorldNeedsNamesGayBandMusic IsFaultsCritique Author:Beth Ditto
“It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.” PeopleInspirationalNeedsSoulNamesUnderstandingMusicMusicianMusic IsSinger SongwritersIdentifyingMusic SoulSoulless Author:Mark Lanegan
“I'm always concerned about marketing or commercial philosophies. I can't feel good about having my name on a bottle of perfume that comes from a factory making perfume with all the same ingredients as every other perfume. I can't feel good about a factory overseas polluting the air for something with my name on it. I'm okay with music - because it's digital or a CD. My music is my emotion in a bottle. But how is a perfume supposed to reflect me? How is a sweatshirt supposed to represent me?” FeelsI CanPhilosophyNamesEmotionAirMusic IsConcernedOkayMarketingFeel GoodDigitalIngredientsBottlesFactoriesPerfumeCdsSweatshirts Author:Nelly Furtado