“It's always a challenge to hit the stage running, with Kansas' music, because it's demanding from the very first note, so we try to be up to the task and keep our pre-show routine pretty much focused on the music.” TryingFirstsShowsRunningChallengesStageMusic IsTasksNotesFocusedRoutineKansas Author:Phil Ehart
“I kind of decided that doing music is enough because I'm already running a couple small businesses. I'm a part of Bikini Kill Records, Le Tigre Records, and Digitally Ruined Records. In dealing with my health and everything, my ability to do that? I wouldn't be good at it.” KindEnoughRunningAbilityRecordsCoupleMusic IsDecidedBe GoodRuinedSmall BusinessBikinis Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction.” RunningWaterPathMusic IsRunning AwayRhinoceros Author:Elvis Costello
“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
“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
“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
“Stylistically speaking I would put us in the pop/rock vein. Although our songs tend to have a darker or moodier current running through them than usual pop/rock. I would say our music is very honest. We're not trying to be anybody or anything for anyone” TryingRunningSongRocksHonestMusic IsCurrentsPopsUsualVeins Author:Sherri DuPree
“You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first.” FirstsMadeRunningFacesFallIndividualRiskPleaseMusic IsPursuitYour FacePlease Yourself Author:Mark Lanegan
“I think from age 13, 14, 15, I thought, yes, this rich studio produced music is the future, but it can't be the future to go run away into the recording studio. How can we take that kind of complexity and richness and make it possible for people to touch it and play it live. That's what hyperinstruments are.” PeopleThinkingKindPlayRunningAgeRichMusic IsStudiosComplexityRunning AwayRichnessRecording Studio Author:Tod Machover
“Music is escapism from the grim realities of life. But then as soon as you escape into the music, from my point of view, I found I had to deal with the very things that I thought I was running away from. I wanted to hit those problems on the head and resolve them. So they didn't remain as issues in my psyche.” ProblemRealityRunningWantedFoundViewsDealsIssuesMusic IsPoint Of ViewReality Of LifeResolveRunning AwayGrimEscapism Author:John Lydon
“For instance, our music, They Might Be Giants, has this element of humor, which is probably the most uptight part of what we include in our music, because we're in part very self-conscious guys, and we want our music to stand up to the test of time, not just be visceral comedy records. We love humor and comedy, but there's this aspect to it that runs counter to what is included in most music.” RunningGuyComedyMusic Is Author:John Flansburgh
“All of my friends are really good dancers, which was initially why I never danced - we'd go out and they would kill it and I'd be like, "Yeah, I'm just gonna sit at the bar." I broke my foot, and I couldn't run for a year, but I realized I could kind of dance. It reminded me how amazing dance is; it's so in tune with music - it is music. It's a physical expression of whatever music is. On stage, you're interacting with things - physical things. So I've really started to like and notice the way people move with music.” PeopleKindRunningMovingMusic IsI RealizedBrokeDancer Author:Nick Murphy
“I've got childhood friends who are working for non-profit foundations, or who are running for state senate and doing things that actually do fight evil in this world. And what am I doing? I bang on some drums in a rock band. I try to tell myself that by doing that, I'm fighting evil - which is completely absurd. Music is not equipped in any way to fight against anything. Other than, I guess, it could fight against silence.” WorldTryingRunningFightingEvilSilenceChildhoodMusic IsAbsurdFighting Evil Author:Greg Saunier