“Everything that’s out now…rap wise and music wise in general [is whack]. I mean, you know whack when you see it. So I’m on a crusade against whackness, and I hope no whackness comes my way. That’s my move, my mission for this record: to combat whackness on all fronts – to make sure that people know what quality music is. It’s not so much about message, but have something to say.” PeopleKnowsWayMeanMovingQualityRecordsWiseFrontsMessagesMusic IsRapMissionsMy WayCombatCrusadesQuality Music Author:Jeru the Damaja
“I wanted to keep the music very electronic, very filmic, and give it an almost sci-fi like quality. Music is a necessity for me. I go into the studio at least five days a week, every week, so once I had the idea and the template, the process was quick and fun.” GivingIdeasWantedFunProcessQualityFiveWeekMusic IsStudiosSci FiQuality Music Author:Martin Gore
“Music [is] a science peculiarly productive of a pleasure that no state of life, publick or private, secular or sacred; no difference of age or season; no temper of mind or condition of health exempt from present anguish; nor, lastly, distinction of quality, renders either improper, untimely, or unentertaining.” MindStatesAgeDifferencesPleasureQualityConditionsMusic IsSeasonsSacredDistinctionProductiveTemperSecularAnguish Book:The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion Source: The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Companion
“What is at the higher levels of meaning consciousness is like a hyperspace in which each point is equidistant from the other and where 'the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere'? The mythologies of the occult seem like baroque music: there is an overall similar quality of sound and movement, but, upon examination, each piece of music is unique; Vivaldi and Scarlatti are similar and different.” DifferentSeemsSoundLevelsConsciousnessQualityPiecesMovementHigherMusic IsUniqueUnityMythologyExaminationOccultHigher LevelBaroqueBaroque MusicVivaldi Book:At the Edge of History Source: At the Edge of History
“That certain feeling happened to me in a big way quite often with the first King Crimson. Amazing things would happen-I mean, telepathy, qualities of energy, things that I had never experienced before with music. You can't tell whether the music is playing the musician or the musician is playing the music.” WayFirstsMeanFeelingsBigsHappensCertainEnergyQualityHappenedKingsMusicianMusic IsAmazing ThingsCrimsonTelepathyKing Crimson Author:Robert Fripp
“I want to write for people that are trying to do some kind of quality music. What I mean by quality music is not so much the trend, what is hot right now. I don't write trendy, I write what feels good and something that feels good will never get old. Timeless music is what I try to shoot for.” PeopleWantFeelsWritingTryingKindMeanQualityRight NowMusic IsHotFeel GoodTrendsTimelessGood WillOld TimeTrendyQuality MusicTimeless Music Author:Ne-Yo
“Music is a spiritual expression of what's in your heart. Music as a way of getting rich is a pretty new thing, and I often wonder if the mega-bucks glitzy atmosphere is making the quality of music suffer. You have to work really hard to get around that and remember why you're in it in the first place: because you have to be. It's like an addiction. You can't go a day without picking up your guitar. To me, the only commercial goals that are really valid are, 'Boy, I wish I didn't have to go to work. I wish I could do this all the time.'” IfsWayFirstsHeartHardRememberSpiritualSufferingWishGoalQualityWonderBoysRichExpressionMusic IsGuitarAddictionAtmosphereNew ThingsBucksGet RichMega Author:Trey Anastasio
“Of all the arts, music is the one communal art. It requires for its existence extensive cooperation and organization...Singing together the greatest choral music of all time is the surest way of developing in a community that sense of quality and reverence for beauty, which is the basis of a musical culture...Entertainment has its place in life just as candies and cocktails have, but health is not built on such a diet alone, nor culture exclusively on amusement.” WayArtTogetherCultureCommunityExistenceQualityMusic IsSingingBuiltOrganizationBasesMusicalEntertainmentAll TimeDevelopingDietsCooperationReverenceCandyAmusementCocktailsArt MusicPlace In LifeSinging TogetherChoral Music Author:Edgard Varese
“Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on the radio is not the issue. Folk music is always there.” RunningConsciousnessQualityIssuesMusic IsFolksRadioStreamsFolk Music Author:Mary Travers
“In our profession someone can be very brilliant and acquire total technical mastery. Yet in the last resort, the only thing that really counts is his quality as a human being. For music is created by Man for Man. And if someone sees nothing more than notes in it, this can perhaps be very interesting, but it cannot enrich him. And music should exist for one purpose only; to enrich Man and give him something he has lost in most respects.” IfsMenGivingShouldHumansLastsPurposeLostHuman BeingsInterestingQualityMusic IsNotesProfessionBrilliantAcquireMasteryResortsVery Interesting Author:Herbert von Karajan
“Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.” BigsFilmSoundQualityGoneMusic IsScalesAwfulCinemaConcertsDisgustingShockingBulbsLarge ScaleLive MusicProjectors Author:Brian Eno
“The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.” GivingLittlesDifferentStatesFactsMightHouseBitsUnitedQualityUnited StatesPossibilityIndustryNeededLittle BitMusic IsShotsDifferent ThingsHostMusic IndustryLegitimacyDance MusicHouse Music Author:Frankie Knuckles
“It's a mystical quality of music, that music isn't really concrete, and it's communicating abstractions about imaginary worlds. At least, my music's like that. It's not real. It's unreal, it's all fabrication. To write a song about Obama would suddenly break the spell.” WorldWritingRealSongQualityBreakMusic IsCommunicateSpellsConcreteImaginaryMysticalAbstractionUnrealFabricationImaginary World Author:Sufjan Stevens
“With the way music is going right now, it's difficult for an r&b singer to make real music. If it's not with a trap beat and you're not mumbling, no disrespect to all of the great artists out there doing what they're doing, I'm not hating, I'm just saying it's difficult for r&b singers right now to make quality music.” IfsWayRealArtistHateDifficultQualityRight NowMusic IsBeatsSingersTrapsGreat ArtDisrespectGreat ArtistJust SayingReal MusicQuality Music Author:Tony Sunshine
“The goal with my music is to maintain a certain honesty and quality. That sounds pretty pretentious as if I'm trying to imply no one else is doing this - I don't believe that. I merely mean to say that what everyone else is doing easily, that is to say, creating without impediment - is sort of difficult for me.” IfsTryingBelieveMeanCertainDifficultSoundGoalQualityHonestyCreatingMusic IsDon't BelievePretentiousImpediments Author:Milo
“Our music is always a reflection of where we are in a society. That's what enables so many people to do what they do. So my advice is to work at your craft. Be the best you can be at your craft and do it sincerely. Even in the world we live in today, that will give you longevity. At the end of the day, I want the quality of my work to stand, not how much I did.” PeopleWorldGivingTodayQualityAdviceMusic IsReflectionBeing The BestLongevitySincerely Author:Lenny Kravitz