Music Is Quotes - Page 23

• One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

  Suzy Bogguss

  Country, Song, Believe

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• When playing any song in front of an audience, you're watching them experience it, and it changes. In a lot of ways, it's almost like the music is just the background buzz to what's happening between you and the audience in the room.

  Wes Borland

  Song, Buzz, Way

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• You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

  George Clinton

  Hate, Parent, Rebel

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• Music is a vital part of my life, and it has been since I was a kid. It helped me find my identity as a person, it helped me find my identity as an artist, and it helped me get in touch with emotions that I didn't know I had.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Kids, Artist, Identity

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  Cameron Crowe

  Song, Powerful, Home

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• The best pop music is the songs that a group of people can dance to, but you can also listen to in your bed and cry. That's something obviously that The Beatles started and... so having that darkness there opens another door.

  Jack Antonoff

  Song, Doors, People

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• And once the music is out there, when you're selling a record and selling music and people are going to do whatever they want with it, it's kind of hard to resist certain opportunities, especially in the record market now.

  Patrick Carney

  Opportunity, People, Records

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• There was no match for Barry White. His music is just going to live forever. It's not limited to disco or soul or hip-hop or anything.

  Don Cornelius

  White, Hip Hop, Forever

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2003.

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• Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred.

  George Crumb

  Historical, Culture, World

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• Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

  George Crumb

  Reflection, Light, Ideas

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• Music is one of the important things for me in cinema.

  Guillaume Canet

  Important, Cinema, Important Things

  "‘Little White Lies’ Writer-Director Guillaume Canet on His Personal French Drama and Making the Upcoming ‘Blood Ties’ in the U.S." by Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. August 22, 2012.

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• I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different.

  Jon Crosby

  Thinking, Artist, Numbers

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• Music isn't only a profession.

  Jose Carreras

  Profession

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• I've always said that music is like literature.

  Jose Carreras

  Literature, Said

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• Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choir and singing with my family. Christian music became the music that I identified myself with and was a way that I expressed my faith. Even at a public school I would take my Christian music in and play it for my friends.

  Steven Curtis Chapman

  Christian, Song, Dad

  "Steven Curtis Chapman: Reckless Faith". Interview with Scott Ross, www.cbn.com.

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• Technology has made it much easier to make and manipulate music. Studio-driven, machine-driven music does not always transcend into being a good live act. Many current acts are great live, but many cannot cut it live. The music is not organic.

  Vivian Campbell

  Cutting, Technology, Doe

  "DEF LEPPARD Guitarist: Music Piracy Is Not A Bad Thing For Bands Like Us". Interview with Dana Feldman, www.blabbermouth.net. June 30, 201.

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• Making music is fantastic.

  Warren Cuccurullo

  Fantastic

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• I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar.

  Grey DeLisle

  Song, Acting, Stories

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• Now my music is kind of pop-rock, right? If I'm 25 and singing still, I don't want to be singing music like that.

  Hilary Duff

  Rocks, Singing, Want

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• I don't have any hobbies. Music is my hobby.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Hobbies

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• Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication.

  Trevor Dunn

  Communication, Emotional, Form

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• Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.

  Daniel Ek

  Song, News, Matter

  "Spotify's Daniel Ek: 'We want artists to be able to afford to create the music they want to create'". Interview with Stuart Dredge, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

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• Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.

  Siobhan Fahey

  Gigs, Modern, Mediums

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• Music is really driving my whole life.

  Ariana Grande

  Driving, Whole Life, Whole

  "Ariana Grande: A Back Stage Exclusive" by backstage.com, May 6, 2010.

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• The only reason I'm able to do music is because I'm making money on 'Community.' If I wasn't, I couldn't pay for things.

  Donald Glover

  Community, Pay, Able

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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