“Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.” PeopleWritingArtistSongFunRealizingMusic IsExcellentHobbiesWriting Songs Author:Tila Tequila
“To some degree, yeah, because I have to play a certain number of originals that might be considered avant-garde material. I realize though, that only a few people in the audience actually know what that music is, or understand it.” PeopleKnowsPlayMightCertainRealizingNumbersAudienceMaterialsDegreesMusic IsOriginalsYeahAvant Garde Author:Archie Shepp
“I started realizing that music is the one area where I've always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I've already played or anticipate the notes ahead.” ThinkingRealizingSpaceLetting GoMusic IsMouthsAreasNotesAnticipateSaxophone Author:Kenny G
“A lot of my colleagues just don't really realize that they have to work in order to get the interest of an audience, especially with young kids, especially because it [classical music] is not that popular. You don't see it on TV, you don't hear it on radio, so you really gotta put an effort into promoting classical music.” KidsYoungOrderInterestRealizingEffortAudienceTvsMusic IsRadioColleaguesPromotingClassical Music Author:David Garrett
“Music is the art... which most completely realizes the artistic idea and is the condition to which all the other arts are constantly aspiring.” ArtIdeasRealizingMusicConditionsMusic IsArtistic Author:Oscar Wilde
“Schools, the first thing they cut is music programs. They don't realize how important music is to kids.” FirstsImportantKidsSchoolRealizingCuttingMusic IsProgram Author:Steven Tyler
“The whole Beatle thing was just beyond comprehension. When 'Help' came out, I was actually crying out for help. Most people think it's just a fast rock 'n roll song. I didn't realize it at the time; I just wrote the song because I was commissioned to write it for the movie. But later, I knew I really was crying out for help.” PeopleThinkingWritingWholeHelpingSongRealizingMusicRocksCryMusic IsRock N RollComprehension Author:John Lennon
“As an artist, I feel that my father's biggest influence is me realizing that music has a purpose and it's not just for business and that music is spiritual. I get that from him that music is a spiritual thing.” FeelsSpiritualPurposeArtistFatherRealizingInfluenceMusic Is Author:Ziggy Marley
“If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art.” IfsWellsLittlesArtStillsI CanHelpingBodyMovingFeltRealizingKnownRocksHigherRight NowOne DayMusic IsIncrediblesDance MusicHigh Art Author:Yoko Ono
“What I like to do with music is make people feel better. Make people realize that all humans have the same problems, more or less. A lot of people deal with the same thing. A lot of times people think problems are specific to them and they if they hear a song about a problem common to them, they feel good because they know that someone else has gone through it.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsFeelsHumansProblemSongRealizingDealsCommonGoneMusic IsFeel GoodFeel BetterMake People Feel Better Author:Jack Johnson
“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her. Never underestimate the power of love. The way to love anything is to realize it may be lost. The heart has its reasons that reason does not know at all. Music is love in search of a word. There is pleasure in the pathless woods; there is a rapture on the lonely shore; There is society, where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar.” KnowsWayHeartMayDoeReasonBeautifulLife IsLostRealizingPleasureMarriageSeaMusic IsLonelyConvictionWoodsSpiteShoreUnderestimateRaptureLife HappinessPower Of LoveNever UnderestimateDeep SeaShe Is Beautiful Author:Lord Byron
“I knew that I wanted to be a singer/songwriter when I was much younger and, um, I've been able to, you know, to realize that dream and I'm very pleased with that...I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry...Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion-very powerful emotions.” KnowsWantWritingDreamAbleWantedRealizingPowerfulEmotionMusic IsExtraordinarySingersBranchesVehicleSongwritersVery PowerfulSinger SongwritersPowerful EmotionsExpressing Emotions Author:Annie Lennox
“There were times when I would suddenly realize making music is a crazy pipe dream. I would see bands that did super well in South Africa still struggling to survive, or even people on the international level who are doing well but financially can't really support themselves.” PeopleWellsStillsDreamRealizingLevelsSupportStruggleCrazyBandMusic IsSouthInternationalSouth AfricaPipePipe DreamsStruggling To Survive Author:St. Lucia
“My music is very edgy and the energy is very raw, but I am also getting out this positive message without being a teacher. I don't want to hear anybody preach or teach things to me, especially when I was a kid. But there are messages that people are grabbing onto without me even realizing that they are messages.” PeopleWantKidsEnergyRealizingTeachTeacherMessagesMusic IsEdgyGrabbingBeing A TeacherPositive Messages Author:Shane Bunting
“I hope people hear my songs and realize that writing music is kind of easy, or that taking your sadness and turning it into a beautiful song is worthwhile.” PeopleWritingKindBeautifulSongEasyRealizingSadnessMusic IsWorthwhileWriting Music Author:Frankie Cosmos
“I'm trying to satirize what it's like to be a recording artist in 2011. I realize that standing on a soap box and ranting and raving about my opinions on the digital age and its effect on music is only going to get you so far.” TryingAgeArtistRealizingOpinionEffectsMusic IsStandingBoxesDigitalSoapDigital AgeRanting And Raving Author:DJ Shadow
“Some of my favorite music is incredibly repetitive, or on the surface has an element of repetition. But once you go beneath the surface, you realize in the repetition is constant variation.” RealizingElementsMusic IsConstantMy FavoriteSurfaceRepetitionVariationRepetitiveBeneath The SurfaceFavorite Music Author:John Dieterich
“And just everyone in the 40s, you got to realize, for his time period, take Justin Bieber and put it on steroids - there was no one like Frank Sinatra before that. And you didn't have the amount of outlets that you have today and the variety that you have today. So, the Great American Songbook united the nation unlike any other music, because there weren't so many different kinds of communications.” KindDifferentTodayNationsRealizingUnitedCommunicationAmountPeriodsMusic IsVarietyDifferent KindsFrankOutletsGreat AmericanJustinSteroidTime Periods Author:Robert Davi
“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
“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 think that if you listen to the same exact genre of music that you play, it is so easy to be influenced by it. There will be times where we are writing a song, and then realize that it songs like something we just heard on the radio. There was a while when we were writing, that I didn't listen to music because I didn't want to be influenced.” ThinkingWritingSongEasyRealizingMusic IsListening To Music Author:Taylor Jardine
“I find that the quest to be perfect and make perfect music is like a black whole. I realize that you can come with the intention to capture a vibe and use a formula, but you have to accept that most of the time its not going to be what you envisioned and you might manifest something better. I think that's been the hardest thing to wrap my head around that most ideas we go for ends up sounding different. I think art in general should be about enjoying the process and the experience. All that matters is if you feel the music and it captures the element your going for.” ThinkingArtDifferentEnjoyBlackRealizingPerfectAcceptingMusic IsIntentionManifest Author:Jillian Hervey
“Neil Young, who isn't really evident when you listen to my music, is probably my favorite of the legends, besides Dylan. They're all a huge influence on me. For me, just following rock history and watching Darkness On the Edge of Town and realizing that's it's okay to be obsessed with a snare sound because Bruce Springsteen was obsessed with a snare sound.” RealizingDarknessInfluenceMusic IsOkayMy FavoriteObsessedDylanSpringsteen Author:Adam Granduciel
“Mostly every form of American music is dead. It's been dead. R&B isn't really good. You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. You start to thinking about creative moments - bliss. When everything was all good. You realize that in comparison to the way hip-hop started off, where we should be at right now is not there.” ThinkingWorldMomentsArtistGuyRealizingCreativeMusic IsFemaleBlissComparisonGreat Guy Author:Nas