We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Game music has a purpose and it does incorporate sound effects.
I am optimistic about the future of music.
I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome.
Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.
Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.
Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.
I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is.
First thing you have to understand is that freestyling is much different than making hip-hop music: there's another whole element to being a hip-hop MC.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to.
When the truth is that there would be no great Western music, and certainly no decent choral repertoire, without the Catholic faith.
I go to music festivals, and people want to talk to me about racism. I'm like, 'Bro, I'm trying to have fun!'
The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar... whatever it is.
From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.
To some extent, I've always felt that the music should be the thing that creates the emotion in you, rather than a video.
I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
When making music I sink myself into the process as deeply as I can and forget all of the success.
When I was first starting out in the music industry, I was always coupled in the same sentence with Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera - and I was probably the worst of them. I think a lot of people back then thought, 'Mandy Moore... she'll probably go back to where she came from in a year.'
I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make.
I want to produce more number one hits but not follow trends blindly! What I really hope to achieve in the long-term is to get that cross-over status such as Calvin Harris and Avicii. I'd love to be a household name in pop music.
It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs.
I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.
My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences.
I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music.
I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.
I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
When we separate music from life we get art.
Stop trying to treat music like it's a tennis shoe, something to be branded. If the music industry wants to save money, they should take a look at some of their six-figure executive expense accounts. All those lawsuits can't be cheap, either.
I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.
Seeing people catch a feeling in their spirit and sprint the aisles of the church while my cousins played driving, uplifting gospel stuck with me. I let that same feeling wash over me when I experience and perform music.
