Zitat des Tages über Musik / Music:
Kanye took me from a kid who listened to music to a kid who lived music.
Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.
Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than people expect.
I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful.
I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz.
I don't think I could ever give up music. It's what makes me tick. If there was no music, there would be no writing.
We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.
I love so many styles of music.
There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.
I'd say music runs in my blood. My parents are exceptionally talented singers, so even before I was born, it was a known fact to them that I'd become a singer. Thanks to my genes, I started off at the age of three and since then, music has meant everything to me.
All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.
Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often.
Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say.
Whether it's music or acting, that creativity all comes from the same source.
Peter Pan is kind of this metaphor for someone or something that makes you feel at home, that brings you out of loneliness, that makes you free. And that's exactly what music does for me.
I grew up in eastern Kentucky, and we would sing in the churches, and there's lots of good mountain church singers out there. Like a lot of folks who turn out to be secular music artists, that's a lot of the training you put in, whether you know it or not.
Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I love classic rock, rock and roll, that's the top notch. I love soul - bluesy music as well.
Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a good place for me to make music.
That was a time when I did love music, I couldn't get enough of what was going on. Maybe it was Nirvana that brought me back. I guess it was a comfort because something that sounded so right - and non-commercial - had become so influential, so immediately.
Music was what bothered me, what interested me.
Music will always be my No. 1 passion, but I don't have to be doing it professionally. It's not really about that for me anymore. I feel like I don't have to look at it as a career. I can just rest in it and just be.
My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
I've always loved music, but I never really played anything. After 'Walk the Line' and learning to play guitar, and having that sense of performing, I think that certainly opened the door for me, for music.
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite.
I sure saw a lot of kids that I'm sure didn't know a lot about us, or we were definitely new to them. The kids who came up to me afterward, we'd talk about music, sign a lot of autographs. So I'm sure we made a lot of new fans.
I'm not good at happy, lightweight kind of music. I'm not really good at pop music. 'Cars' is probably the only true pop song I ever wrote. I wish I could write more, but I'm not very good at it.
I feel that for years of teaching in the country and reading criticism in books, I feel like the things most needed in our culture are the understanding of the meanings of our music. We haven't done that good of job teaching our kids what our music means or how we developed our taste in music that reminds us and teaches us who we are.
My high school career counsellor said I shouldn't pursue music as a career.
I see music as fluid architecture.
Disco is just pop music you can dance to.
Putting out music as it's made, versus holding it until an album's finished, allows me to be more timely and maintain balance.
