“A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art.” ArtSocialNaturalDecisionPayAttentionMusic IsResponseHearingMotivatedClassical MusicPrestigeClassic Music Book:Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist Source: Piano Notes: The World of the Pianist
“I think a good study of music would be indispensable to the animators - a realization on their part of how primitive music is, how natural it is for people to want to go to music - a study of rhythm, the dance - the various rhythms enter into our lives every day.” PeopleThinkingWantWould BeNaturalStudyOur LivesMusic IsVariousRhythmRealizationPrimitiveIndispensableAnimationAnimatorLive Every Day Author:Walt Disney
“"Music is something that professionals do and not something that I do." That's not natural. Music belongs to everybody.” NaturalMusic Is Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantImportantEndsEarthNaturalTalkingMusicRecordsGroupsRocksMusic IsDisasterSplitsReminiscingKeep TalkingOld Records Author:John Lennon
“Some guys that know me from when I was a kid say "My son, oh he's just like your father." It's just a natural part of our lives. But, within the music industry and within the industry of the critiques of music, where it becomes "Ziggy's music is not as good as Bob's music," I don't understand. But I don't really pay much attention to that because I'm just expressing myself.” KnowsKidsGuyFatherNaturalPayAttentionOur LivesSonLike YouIndustryMusic IsMy SonBobKnow MeCritiqueMusic Industry Author:Ziggy Marley
“I hated the blog hype and how fast everything was happening. It didn't feel natural to me. But at the same time, what's more natural than thousands of people sharing your music because they just really like it?” PeopleFeelsNaturalMusic IsHappeningsHatedBlogsHype Author:Michael Angelakos
“I simply remix an artist accommodating the way I wish to see this track. Remixing is entirely personal for me, music is entirely personal for me, and it has to be a natural process.” WayArtistWishProcessNaturalMusic IsTrackRemix Author:Justin Broadrick
“It's amazing, it's pumping, it's furious, it's anxious, it's happy and it's far more real than anything you'll ever experience in a Western city. Morocco is a living, pulsating entity which is rapidly changing all the time but there are parts of Marrakesh that carry on as they have done for a thousands years. The music is a reflection of that, of all times and all religions and of all the natural expectations and conditions of the people who live there.” PeopleYearsRealDoneNaturalCitiesConditionsMusic IsReflectionExpectationsWesternAll TimeAnxiousEntityFuriousMorocco Author:Robert Plant
“And if a few other people come along who discover my music because they in some natural way come across my music, cool.” PeopleIfsWayNaturalMusic Is Author:John Frusciante
“For me, creating music is a completely natural thing. I've been doing so, and I will continue doing so. I record almost everything I play at home.” PlayHomeNaturalRecordsCreatingMusic IsNatural ThingsCreating Music Author:Merzbow
“The goal is to be free and hopeful in the music. Because that's really the only intention you need. From there, every natural and powerful intention and feeling will, on its own, slide right out of you - out of your spirit.” NeedsFeelingsSpiritGoalNaturalPowerfulMusic IsIntentionHopefulSlides Author:Alex Ebert
“My responsibility is to fulfil what that natural thing is. The thing that I dislike about pop rock Top 40 music is that it's not natural.” NaturalResponsibilityRocksMusic IsPopsDislikeNatural Things Author:Van Morrison
“For me people are people, without meaning to sound corny, it's a plain natural fact, music is a universal language and I've always known that and observed that and treated music with great respect accordingly.” PeopleFactsLanguageSoundNaturalKnownMusic IsUniversalTreatedCornyGreat RespectUniversal Language Author:John Lydon
“Music is my natural language. I have always had a form of dyslexia. I never studied music formally, so emotions come directly from the source into song mode. As a composer, it may be fortuitous. What I feel is what you get.” SongLanguageNaturalEmotionMusic IsComposerDyslexia Author:Lucy Simon
“I think whatever we've done as a band at The Clientele, we've done because it's so natural. Our "old" sound isn't really like any actual bands from old times. We take elements of past music styles and past sounds as a way to... this is going to sound very pretentious and perhaps overly thought-out, but as a way to strike chords of vague nostalgia, and strike chords of, "I've heard this before somewhere." That's what a lot of our music is about in terms of the words and ideas behind it, so we really use old sounds as a way to serve that agenda.” ThinkingDonePastTermNaturalStyleMusic IsNostalgiaPretentiousOld Time Author:Alasdair MacLean