“Almost all the bars in Southeast Asia are lady bars. The listener and participants who interact and frequent the clubs are exclusively male who become actively involved with the ladies, not the music. Coming to them to listen only to the music is not what people do.” PeopleInvolvedMusic IsMalesClubsBarsListenersAsiaParticipantsSoutheast Asia Author:Alan Bishop
“The really cool thing about reggae music is that I can get away with saying spiritual things as a reggae influenced artist that I couldn't get away with saying as a rock artist. Reggae has such spiritual roots and people almost expect to hear spiritual things.” PeopleI CanSpiritualArtistRocksMusic IsRootsGet AwayReally CoolReggaeCool ThingsReggae Music Author:Dominic Balli
“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
“It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.” PeopleLanguageMusic IsUniversalUniversal Language Author:Thomston
“Because Caribbean music is now coming back into the mainstream, there are so many things that make this the perfect time to educate people on where this music, this vibe, and these dance moves come from.” PeopleMovingPerfectMusic IsEducateMainstreamComing BackCaribbeanDance Moves Author:Kreesha Turner
“I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you.” PeopleThinkingWantMusic IsBe YouFrontiers Author:Regina Spektor
“I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.” PeopleFeelsMusic IsGratification Author:Ry Cooder
“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
“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
“I think now the music is good. I tell people all the time who like to be in the music business you got to have a hit record.” PeopleThinkingRecordsMusic IsMusic Business Author:Master P
“I was doing my music because it was fun, and I always was like, "If it becomes a business, or it becomes too demanding, or if people try to tell me what to do or control what I'm doing, I won't do it."” PeopleIfsTryingFunMusic Is Author:Cakes da killa
“It's logical that people from bad times will reflect their feelings in their communication. Music is part of the communication. If you lived it, you can do it.” PeopleIfsFeelingsCan DoCommunicationMusic IsLogicalYou Can Do ItBad Times Author:Nina Simone
“I guess music is the one universal art form that most people can be moved by, regardless of where they come from, and for many it might be the closest they get to god, but I think taking a trip out into the country, away from the light pollution, and looking at a clear night sky is what does it best for me.” PeopleThinkingDoeArtCountryLightMightFormNightClearSkyMusic IsUniversalMovedPollutionClosestNight Sky Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Folk music was to strengthen and unify people, whether it was through an uprising and rebellion or whether is was through hard work, bringing in crops. But it was to strengthen each other and that's still what music is about today.” PeopleStillsHardTodayHard WorkMusic IsFolksRebellionCropsUprisingFolk Music Author:PJ Harvey
“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
“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
“Ireland is a place that's beautiful and interesting, but I remember when I went there as a teenager with my parents, I was like, "Okay, I'll go to Ireland with my parents. It's going to be green." I think people underestimate it, in that it's, "Oh, it's green," and then you get there, and it's like, "Wow, it is green!" It's, "Oh, there's Irish music," and then you get there, and you're like, "Oh, this Irish music is amazing!" You underestimate it.” PeopleThinkingBeautifulRememberParentInterestingMusic IsOkayGreenTeenagerWowIrelandUnderestimateRemember WhenIrish Music Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My music is some of the most honest music that's been released and I think that's why people buy it.” PeopleThinkingHonestMusic Is Author:George Michael
“Whenever I do my live shows, I feel artistically inspired and excited because I get to do and say a lot of things that I can't if I just make a record. A lot of times it's the only way people are going to hear my music because you don't get to have your music played on Top 40 if you're above the age of 35.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsI CanShowsAgeRecordsMusic IsInspiredExcited Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Finally, ultimately, you write music for yourself. I mean, I need a public, I need people to play, I need everything else. I'm not working in isolation. But finally the man that writes the music is alone. And I have to respond to those criteria which are almost like inner needs or inner responses.” PeopleMenNeedsWritingMeanPlayHe ManMusic IsResponseIsolationCriteria Author:Philip Glass
“If I could just have my music be played for many people no matter what method or way is used, I would reply that that is not the case.” PeopleIfsWayMatterUsedCasesMusic IsNo Matter WhatMethodIf I Could Author:Kim Nam-joon
“My worlds are completely different. Painting is a peaceful world, and it's a different vibe than having a great match. You are able to look back at what you created when you finish. Recording music is an entirely different monster. When you finally write something, you do a demo and then you go into the studio. Doing the master version, that's the best feeling ever - especially when you're so proud of what you've written, and you can't wait for people to hear it. That's actually very similar to trying to tell a story in a wrestling match.” PeopleWorldWritingTryingLooksDifferentStoriesFeelingsAbleWaitingWrittenPaintingMastersProudMusic IsStudiosMonstersVersionsPeacefulWrestlingPeaceful WorldDemosRecording Music Author:Jeff Hardy
“Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.” PeopleDifferentDoneFactsGenerationsMusic IsTheaterMusicalNew GenerationMusical Theater Author:Claude-Michel Schonberg
“When I was home, traditionally since I was young, I'd write in cafés. That was the romantic notion in 1963. Café atmospheres back then were different. The café life really stemmed from the Parisians' idea of it, with poets struggling over their poems and drinking coffee. No music, no sounds, maybe a little jazz, or soul, but mostly nothing. Now you go into a café and the music is really loud, people are having business meetings, they are on their cellphones. It changes from generation to generation.” PeopleWritingLittlesIdeasDifferentSoulHomeYoungSoundStruggleGenerationsPoetMusic IsJazzMeetingsDrinkingNotionCoffeeAtmosphereLoudCellphoneDrinking CoffeeBusiness Meeting Author:Patti Smith
“With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of America, the paradox that distills America, is that this greatest of American contributions to humanity, this American contribution that probably has influenced more people around the world for the good, that probably has brought more people around the world unqualified joy, was born of America's greatest evil, slavery. Or one of the two great evils anyway, counting the European extinction of those who were on the continent first.” PeopleWorldWayFirstsTwoAmericaJoyHumanityEvilBornCenturyMusic IsSlaveryWesternAround The WorldContributionExceptionParadoxContinents20th CenturyExtinctionCountingUnqualifiedWestern Music Author:Steve Erickson
“[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
“When you go to South Africa, you get a different vibe and a different sound. The music is awesome the people are loving it. When you go to Botswana, it's a different ball game. The people out there love Afro Beat Hip Hop so much. When you go to Sierra Leone it's different, when you go to Nigeria it's different... It's all pretty exciting!” PeopleDifferentGamesSoundMusic IsBeatsBallsExcitingSouthHip HopHipsHopsSouth AfricaNigeriaSierraBall GamesAfrosSierra Leone Author:Ice Prince
“My motivational music is any music that helps me escape. There are certain records that take you to euphoria, when you're partying and havin' a good time, dancin' with a couple people.” PeopleHelpingCertainPartyRecordsCoupleMusic IsHelp MeGood TimesEuphoria Author:Pitbull
“I am so weak over love and heartbreak. My music is rhythm and blues and with that said, the blues element of it is a major portion. I feel like it has been lost in R&B and a lot of people are scared to talk about their vulnerabilities and insecurities. They want to keep it up and in the club.” PeopleWantFeelsHas BeensSaidLostElementsMajorsMusic IsWeakScaredClubsRhythmVulnerabilityInsecurityPortionsRhythm And BluesLove And Heartbreak Author:Adrian Marcel
“For people to even be interested and to reach out and say "I can't wait for you to come out with something", it's just so inspiring and motivating. It just keeps me going and it reminds me of why I love to make music because there's nothing greater than to use the gifts you have and share it with people who have that same affinity for the art that you give.” PeopleGivingArtI CanUseWaitingGreaterShareMusic IsReach OutAffinity Author:Tiffany Villarreal
“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
“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
“I really enjoy doing music because it's a challenge to try to reach that frequency and connect with people and get them tuned to what you're talking about. I definitely respect and enjoy that challenge.” PeopleTryingEnjoyChallengesTalkingMusic IsFrequency Author:Ab-Soul
“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
“It's the true meaning of music being a universal language, constantly fighting and going through different boundaries in order for new people to hear the music and be like, "Oh, sh*t! I mess with this Pitbull kid."” PeopleDifferentKidsOrderFightingLanguageMusic IsUniversalBoundariesMessTrue MeaningUniversal Language Author:Pitbull
“My concern with this approach is that music becomes a substance devoid of people. It's a consumer model of what music is: subjects listening to objects. For me, music is subjects listening to subjects. It's about intersubjectivity.” PeopleListeningMusic IsConcern Author:Vijay Iyer
“I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's how we make each day new as players, as people.” PeoplePlayerMusic IsEmpoweringImprovisation Author:Vijay Iyer
“Medicine is often conservative and slow to incorporate something that wasn't there before and that we're afraid people are going to laugh at us for. But, the beauty of music is - well, a couple things. There are no side effects that are harmful. Music doesn't do that. It doesn't have any negative effects whatsoever. So I do think it's going to come, but I think it's a new idea for people.” PeopleThinkingLaughingCoupleMusic IsNegativeConservative Author:Neal Barnard
“There was a time when people would go search out underground records. Now, underground means free, and people don't really care for it. So now artists tend to go more pop and look for the radio. You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard, like Chuck D said.” PeopleMeanCareArtistSpeakDifficultMusic IsCatDifficult TimesChuck Author:Ice T
“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
“There's really nothing better than music to bring people together and to have amazing music being not just created inside walls but then decimating and activating is going to be special.” PeopleTogetherSpecialWallMusic Is Author:Nas
“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
“It'd be negligent to say that I don't want to be at the top of the charts. Of course I do, it's proof that your song is being heard. But I think it's more about the work for me and being proud of what I'm doing in music than what people think about my music. I want to like my music before you like it. I don't want to sell anything that I don't really like. I don't want to sell myself short just to get to the top of the charts. It doesn't feel that great. Feeling proud of your work feels greater than being at the top of the charts.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsSongProudMusic IsBe ProudYou Like ItProud Of You 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
“People always say that music is a universal language. It was very, very true. We could show up anywhere with any people speaking different languages and we could just be like, "You want to play that song? Yeah, okay." We would usually want to play Latin American songs, and they would usually want to play Santana or Jimi Hendrix and stuff like that. So we would trade off. So yeah, we were able to make a lot of friends that way and meet a lot of local musicians. It was a great experience.” PeopleDifferentSongLanguageLike YouMusicianMusic IsOkayTradeLatinLatin AmericaHendrixVery True Author:Jherek Bischoff
“A lot of people are really quick to say, "That song sounds like this." Or you - "He's tryin' to sound like this." And I'm always like, "You're damn right I am. That's how - that's why we're all here." You know, we all grew up idolizing another musician. That's how this works. That's how music is created.” PeopleSongLike YouMusicianMusic Is Author:Bruno Mars
“I can write, boy, I can write. That's what I do. The trouble is that it's too bloody easy for people, that's why music is in the sorry state that it is. Any idiot, actors mainly, can go in there, sing a chord, bang on a machine... I'm not objecting to that but when people get at me for trying to say something in a rock 'n' roll mode it's as if I'm the freak.” PeopleWritingTryingEasyBoysTroubleMusic IsSorryIdiotFreakBloody Author:Mark E. Smith
“Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.” PeopleMusic Is Author:Ana Lily Amirpour