“Music is very nebulous, and you can conjure up a lot of moods with music. But lyrics - they're a lot more tangible. They're much more specific. And you want to say something meaningful and creative and artistic and that tells a story and that takes people someplace else.” PeopleWantStoriesCreativeMusic IsMeaningfulMoodArtisticTangible Author:Sarah McLachlan
“Learning from other people is what music is all about.” PeopleMusic IsLearning From Others Author:Neil Young
“The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.” PeopleMessagesMusicianMusic IsCarrieMessengersTrue Beauty Author:Roy Ayers
“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingHeartArtistSongTurnsStuffBitsRecordsWrittenTreeModernLove YouWindColdMy HeartMusic IsOkayAssBrokeBrownLove Each OtherSigningWigsHeart BrokeBlowing ItModern Music Author:Frank Zappa
“You're always learning so much from people and how they work and what their processes are. Some people like to listen to music before they get into it, and some people can talk all the way up to, "Action!" Everybody is different.” PeopleWayDifferentActionProcessMusic IsListening To MusicAlways Learning Author:Evan Peters
“Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.” PeopleLoveArtFallVoiceMusic IsFalling In LoveFinding YourselfSurroundNurturingInner VoiceSurround YourselfCommunicators Author:Glenn Hughes
“Rock music is the province of the young, and it should be made by young people. I'm not running around in a pair of spandex tights trying to reclaim my youth.” PeopleShouldTryingMadeRunningYoungRocksYouthMusic IsPairsProvincesRock MusicTightsSpandex Author:Nick Cave
“Johnny Jewel is how people were maybe two hundred years ago. Back then, when people got up in the morning, they knew what they had to do to get through the day - there were 100% less decisions. Nowadays, we have to decide what we want to buy in grocery stores, what job to take, what work to do. But not Johnny. For him, it's all right there - it's a freer state, and that's what my music is looking for... ... To understand Johnny, you should think of William Blake. He was the same kinda guy.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldYearsTwoStatesJobsGuyDecisionMorningMusic IsHundredYears AgoStoresJewelsGroceriesGrocery StoresBlake Author:Tom Verlaine
“It grabs me, but not as much as it grabs some of the other people that rave about them. With the Black Keys, I'm missing crescendos with the sax, keyboard or guitar solo. It never comes to me. All my favorite music is rife with crescendo and I'm not hearing enough with them. If you can get the Black Keys to hear this, tell them I offer my crescendo guitar anytime they desire it.” PeopleIfsEnoughDesireBlackMissingKeysOffersMusic IsGuitarMy FavoriteHearingSoloKeyboardsRaveCrescendoGuitar SolosFavorite MusicBlack Keys Author:Ted Nugent
“Live music is the most primal form of energy release you can share with other people besides having sex or taking drugs.” PeopleFormEnergySexShareDrugMusic IsReleasePrimalHaving SexLive Music Author:Kurt Cobain
“I hope people just enjoy the music. I'm not worried about any sort of legacy. Whether people view me more as the drummer in Wilco or as a composer who composes primarily for rhythmic reasons - it doesn't matter to me as long as they dig the music. None of that matters to me if the music is crap.” PeopleIfsLongMatterReasonEnjoyViewsMusic IsLegacyWorriedComposerCrapDrummer Author:Glenn Kotche
“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
“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
“With some people, that love of music is just buried in them. It's so deep in them that they would play for free because they have to.” PeoplePlayMusic IsBuriedMusic Love Author:Kim Basinger
“I'm going to make music that reflects me and my life now. So I think people who like my music and who listen to me should appreciate change as well, because I've definitely evolved, and that's a great thing, to celebrate that is what music is all about.” PeopleThinkingShouldWellsMusic IsAppreciateGreat ThingsCelebrateListen To Me Author:Lizzo
“Some of the greatest films and television have only been seen by the people that make them. And some of the greatest music is only heard by the people who make it.” PeopleFilmHeardTelevisionMusic IsFilm And TelevisionGreatest Music Author:Jussie Smollett
“For me, I guess the general reason for using social media is that the connection I have with people who are interested in my music is extremely important to me. That connection is like the pillar in everything I do. I want to embrace that connection and make it stronger.” PeopleWantImportantReasonSocialMediaMusic IsConnectionsStrongerEmbraceSocial MediaPillars Author:Steve Aoki
“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
“A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.” PeopleDifficultMusic IsTraditionalGuessworkTraditional Music Author:John Spiers
“Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing” PeopleKnowsEnjoyForgetTomorrowBedMusic IsForgottenEntertainmentHealFountainForget ItEnjoy Yourself Author:Peter Tosh
“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
“Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.” PeopleTryingBitsVoiceAliveGroupsMusic IsFolksBoringMinoritiesBalletFolk MusicMinority Groups Author:John Lennon
“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
“In the past, people could use their music because there are these bootlegs floating around that were supposedly public domain but they weren't, and now they've locked everything up and it's become really near impossible to use their music in movies.” PeopleUsePastImpossibleMusic IsLockedFloatingDomainPublic Domain Author:George Ratliff
“People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.” PeopleMusic IsHip HopHipsEvolveHops Author:Erykah Badu
“My first experience of that was with my first movie which I did in India. And it was so different from other people. I find that "Oh my God." Every time the music is slow I feel that people are going to get up and go out. You get this nervousness. But, to my surprise, people starting singing the song even before it came in. They started singing along a week later, after release, which was very cool.” PeopleFeelsFirstsDifferentSongWeekMusic IsSingingIndiaSurpriseStartingGet UpReleaseNervousnessVery Cool Author:A. R. Rahman
“I want, more than anything, to bring some light back to people's lives through my music. The beauty of music is that it is a universal language that everyone understands.” PeopleWantLightLanguageMusic IsUniversalUniversal Language Author:Chloe Rose Lattanzi
“The most important thing for me personally is that I can connect with other people through my music. I want my album to be like a trip that people can take with me. My music is like me stripped naked because I open myself up completely.” PeopleWantI CanImportantMusic IsImportant ThingsAlbumsLike MeNaked Author:Chloe Rose Lattanzi
“The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.” PeopleWorldMindRealApproachMusic IsIntelligentAim Author:Sun Ra
“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
“Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does.” PeopleDoeShapesMusic Is Author:Lou Reed
“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
“About 1990 there was a huge shakeup in the music industry and the 6 major record companies fired all the music people and hired business graduates to take over the spots. So the music became not as important. What really became important was the bottom line, how much money you could make.” PeopleImportantLinesCompanyRecordsHugeIndustryMajorsMusic IsBottomSpotsGraduatesBottom LineMusic IndustryRecord Companies Author:Geoff Tate
“For me, writing music is a good way to say what's on my mind. It's less vulnerable in a way, less embarrassing, less exposing to the idea of seeing someone's reaction. The thing about it, though, is you need to be ready... especially if you've got something you're burning to say... even if it's just what some people might think is just a small moment that nobody'd ever bother with or notice.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsWritingMindIdeasMomentsMightSeeingReadyMusic IsReactionsVulnerableBurningBotherEmbarrassingGood WayExposingWriting MusicSmall Moments Author:Aaron Lines
“I think that my music is really honest and I think I have something to say. The world revolves around so much negativity that I feel we really need something positive right now. I think people need to be encouraged to strive after those things that seem impossible. That is one of the common themes that runs through my record.” PeopleThinkingWorldNeedsFeelsSeemsRunningCommonRecordsImpossibleHonestRight NowMusic IsStriveThemeNegativityBe Encouraged Author:Amanda Stott
“I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.” PeopleKnowsWorldMindMeanPlayDreamOpportunityChanceInformationPlanetsBirthDegreesMusic IsAddPeacefulUselessTelling The TruthTruth Of LifePeaceful WorldAnother ChanceWorld MusicBombarded Author:Charles Lloyd
“I think there are a lot of people that lead worship don't really understand the weight of what they do. But I think it is all about leadership. It's how you lead people into understanding what this is about. But also the wind of God, the fresh Spirit of God has been amazing, and that is what has caused people to turn their hearts towards it. Worship music is the most popular thing in Christian music.” PeopleThinkingHeartHas BeensChristianSpiritTurnsUnderstandingWindWorshipMusic IsWeightSpirit Of GodChristian MusicWorship Music Author:Chris Tomlin
“I think emotion is just anything that is emotional, you know, people can feel with music. Music is already so emotional, like the strings, the chords, and the notes and the melodies and stuff. And then you throw on a topic that everyone can relate to. That's gonna be real music.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFeelsRealStuffEmotionEmotionalMusic IsNotesRelateStringsMelodyBeing RealTopicsChordsReal Music Author:Sam McCandless
“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
“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
“Our music is honest. We are who we are... messed up, dysfunctional sinners that have been loved in spite of our hate. We don't deny that we live in a evil world and that we have been evil people and we have evil tendencies... but we also have touched righteousness through our faith in Christ.. and we have received salvation, hope, and love... So our songs always acknowledge this truth and in turn we hope they bring faith, hope and love into the midst of the selfish, fearful hatred that makes up so much of the world we live in.” PeopleWorldHas BeensHateSongTurnsEvilChristHonestMusic IsHatredAnd LoveSalvationDenySelfishTendenciesAcknowledgeWho We AreSpiteTouchedSinnerMidstRighteousnessFearfulMessed UpEvil PeopleHope And LoveFaith HopeEvil WorldFaith Hope And Love Author:Lacey Mosley
“Hip hop is at its essence a folk music, because it speaks the language that people are still speaking at ground zero, it speaks the language that people speak on the streets.” PeopleStillsSpeakLanguageStreetsMusic IsEssenceFolksHip HopHipsHopsZeroFolk MusicGround Zero Author:Talib Kweli
“People have an affinity towards things, and you don't know where it comes from. Mozart wrote a symphony when he was four, so it's said; the theory is maybe because his father was a conductor, it happened in vitro, and he heard the music before he was born, and by the age of four he knew how to write music.” PeopleKnowsWritingSaidAgeFatherBornFourHappenedHeardTheoryMusic IsSymphonyConductorAffinity Author:William Shatner
“I always tell people that my primary job is being a dad and husband. Music is just what pays the bills.” PeopleJobsPayDadHusbandMusic IsBillsPrimariesBeing A Dad Author:Aaron Watson
“....the popular music of Jamaica, the music of the people, is an essentially experiential music, not merely in the sense that the people experience the music, but also in the sense that the music is true to the historical experience, that the music reflects the historical experience. It is the spiritual expression of the historical experience of the Afro-Jamaican.” PeopleSpiritualExpressionMusic IsHistoricalJamaicaPopular MusicAfrosJamaicansJamaican Music Author:Linton Kwesi Johnson
“Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.” PeopleKnowsWayI CanAbleBlessingMusic IsYeahMy FavoriteHopefullyBe YouFavorites Things Author:Jonny Lang
“Nothing has really changed. We had bootleg albums in the '60s and today we have Internet file sharing. They just found a better way to do it -- get music for free. What's great about today is an artist has an opportunity to go direct to their audience without dealing with a middleman. People can go directly to the web for CDs, DVDs and downloads. I think that's the best thing that's happened, that people's music is being flashed around the world.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayTodayArtistFoundOpportunityAudienceHappenedChangedInternetMusic IsDirectAlbumsAround The WorldBest ThingsFilesBetter WaysCdsDvdsDownloadsMiddlemenFile Sharing Author:Richie Havens
“Some critics could argue that club or fun pop-y dance music isn't meaningful, when it totally is. All different types of music are meaningful depending on what people are going through in their lives at any given moment.” PeopleDifferentMomentsGivenFunTypeMusic IsCriticsClubsPopsArguingMeaningfulDance MusicDifferent Types Of Music Author:Darren Fletcher
“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
“The process of introducing people to new music is amazing. It's a gift. One of the best parts of any day is when someone says, 'Hey, check out this new band...'” PeopleProcessBandMusic IsChecksHeyIntroducingNew Music Author:Mark Hoppus