Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration (Page 15)

"A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music"

"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life"

"Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune"

"Art works because it appeals to certain faculties of the mind. Music depends on details of the auditory system, painting and sculpture on the visual system. Poetry and literature depend on language"

Steven Pinker, Scientist

"You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich"

Robert Duvall, Actor

"Make your own music. It can be done"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart has a way of involving me in things, which can only be good for the music"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I think the word soul has gotta come into it. Music that's created just for consuming lacks that soul, that swing, that feeling"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"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"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"At home I'm just a guy who has interests that extend far beyond music"

Layne Staley, Musician

"I played music all through school and I kind of performed that way"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin' art collectors and everything!"

Ron Wood, Musician

"Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music"

Frank Capra, Director

"Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

"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"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records"

Joan Jett, Musician

"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"In the past, there's always been one leader that has led the pack to development of the music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion"

Marcus V. Pollio, Architect

"Music is the career I'm lucky enough to get paid for, but I have other desires and passions"

Layne Staley, Musician

"It was all about music, about getting your friends to come and see you play. I don't see that same intimacy happening very much today"

Layne Staley, Musician

"It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now"

Ron Wood, Musician

"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing"

Layne Staley, Musician

"Hip-hop is more about attaining wealth. People respect success. They respect big. They don't even have to like your music. If you're big enough, people are drawn to you"

Jay-Z, Musician

"Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I think music sharing of any kind is great"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"I'm also very pleased that we were able to include a full orchestrated score for Dragon's Lair 3D. The 40 different music pieces blend with the action to make you feel more a part of the whole adventure"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Well, I think music for kids is never anything but experimental is it?"

Fred Frith, Composer

"We play melodic music, we play songs, we play all kinds of things and when you improvise you don't just shut out different languages, you use all the languages that you have"

Fred Frith, Composer

"I think what I'm going to do is get more balance in my life to still be able to go out and play the hard rock 'n' roll and do what I like to do in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert"

Fred Frith, Composer

"I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook"

Joan Jett, Musician

"And so many of the kinds of labels you get stuck with don't really tell the story; Progressive, Art Rock, Noise Music, Downtown - it ends up being a struggle to stay out of debates that other people are having around you"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Def Leppard is obviously a different band that we are, but the music work well tighter. And the audiences seem work well together too. We are opening, but we're having a good time"

Joan Jett, Musician

"The music becomes something that is its own entity"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Jazz has borrowed from other genres of music and also has lent itself to other genres of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"I've always loved music, not necessarily just the Osmonds"

Kevin Richardson, Musician

"My thing is related to who I am as a person. The clothes are an extension of me. The music is an extension of me. All my businesses are part of the culture, so I have to stay true to whatever I'm feeling at the time, whatever direction I'm heading in. And hopefully, everyone follows"

Jay-Z, Musician

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