Top 1200 American Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.

Jazz is an interesting music. It's one of the few forms of music where everyone that's performing the music has a creative stake in the music. In jazz, everyone's improvising, and everyone's creating at the same time.

The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

The major economies are not American anymore. They are Asian and South American.

This is my first week as an American citizen. It's amazing. Now I can vote in the general election - and for American Idol.

[David] Bowie went on to make best-selling music - funk, dance music, electronic music, while also being influenced by cabaret and jazz.

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

I make music to make you sick of fake music, hate music like devil worshippin Satan music. So say your prayers, your Hail Marys and Jesuses. Take two sticks, tape 'em together and make a crucifix.

I don't believe in good music and bad music anymore. I'm through with that phase of my life. Sometimes I just wanna feel good, so I put on a good record. But mostly I'm more of a businessman than a music fan, so I'm listening to music in terms of, is this effective or not effective?

Enough of clouds, waves, aquariums, water-sprites and nocturnal scents; what we need is music of the earth, everyday music..music one can live in like a house.

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program.

If you ask the American people to choose, between public health and the economy, then it's no contest. No American is going to say, accelerate the economy, at the cost of human life. Because no American is going to say how much a life is worth. Job one has to be save lives. That has to be the priority.

No one understands and appreciates the American Dream of hard work leading to material rewards better than a non-American.

However, I think we have to go back to the American bogeyman - we have to understand that this is a country which currently allows American drones to fly over our skies and bomb our people on an almost weekly basis, this is a country that survives on American aid in the billions. Today's headline in the newspapers is about America stepping up arms supplies to Pakistan.

Hyperloop One is the American Dream, and it's fast becoming an American reality.

Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm. It's not like reading a book or looking at a painting. It gives you its own time frame, like music, so they are very connected for me. But music to me is the biggest inspiration. When I get depressed, or anything, I go "think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!" So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If someone asked what kind of music I play, I wouldn't say I'm a folk singer; however, if folk music means music for the people, and playing music to entertain them and share different messages, then sure, I'd like to think that I'm part folk singer.

My fiction occupies, actually, the very heart of American culture: this eternal question and struggle of what it means to be an American.

Trade can really be good for American workers and American businesses.

I've always loved music. I've worked on music and written music, but, it wasn't until I was actually on the road full time with WWE that I put my first album out.

Our American experiment deserves an advocate, and the American people respond best to inspiration, not fear-mongering.

I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American.

I'm an American songwriter, and I write from a very American perspective, and so did the records I grew up listening to.

I'm using my degree. You know, I studied English and American literature in college, and now I'm an American poet.

I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt.

I'm not saying you can't be successful in the music industry without Spotify. But when I look at the future of music, I don't think scarcity is the model anymore. We have to embrace ubiquity - that music is everywhere.

Buying is more American than thinking, and I'm as American as they come.

We're going to rebuild America with American workers and American tools.

I drive Fords, and I've driven American cars all my life, and I want to have a strong American manufacturing sector, especially in automobiles.

No other American city is so intensely American as New York.

Reggae music is simple music - but it's from the heart. Just as people need water to drink, people also need music. If it is true music, the people will be drawn to it.

The biggest problem with American music right now, is that kids don't listen. They come by it honestly, Americans don't listen anyway. When people go to concerts, they say I'm going to see... not, I'm going to hear.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.

Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

Being from a background of dance music and what you might call club music or electronic music, I think something that gets neglected in that scene is personal vulnerability.

I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

Music was a big thing for me growing up and Scorsese and Tarantino both use music brilliantly in movies. They're probably two of the best at using music.

The existence of an area of free land, its continuous recession, and the advance of American settlement, explain American development.

We do not need an immigration policy that displaces American workers or American students and drives up costs in education.

I wouldn't make an anti-American film. I'm one of the most pro-American foreigners I know. I love America and Americans.

The American people want change, and they see in Donald Trump a leader who embodies the American spirit.

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

I am the princess of G.O.O.D. Music, the first lady of G.O.O.D. Music, the baby of G.O.O.D. Music. I'm kinda the spoiled brat right now. I could get whatever I want.

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

The American vice would be sometimes speaking too loudly. You can always hear American people on the trains!

Since when did the American Dream become the American Guarantee?

I grew up in a border state. I think immigration is an essential part of American history and American culture.

One thing that sticks in my mind is that jazz means freedom and openness. It's a music that, although it developed out of the African American experience, speaks more about the human experience than the experience of a particular people.

I listen to music all the time. I write while listening to music. And I tell myself that the music nourishes the art forms that I do master and domesticate, and have authority over.

I'm extremely happy about music altogether, and the history that I've made. How I changed the world, music-wise, music over the internet and stuff like that.

It is a hallmark of the American system of justice that anyone who appears as a litigant in an American courtroom is treated with dignity and respect.

American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny.

American art ought to be monumental, in keeping with American life.

The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity.

I consider myself an embodiment of the American dream: an all-American Indian.

According to the Tax Foundation, the average American worker works 127 days of the year just to pay his taxes. That means that government owns 36 percent of the average American's output-which is more than feudal serfs owed the robber barons. That 36 percent is more than the average American spends on food, clothing and housing. In other words, if it were not for taxes, the average American's living standard would at least double.