Top 1200 Classic Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

My father was the classic Puritan. Hold the emotions in check. Keep up appearances.

There are a lot of people who wonder why Japan is a pretty consistent influence in my music, and I think it's because the reason I started writing - my intro to electronic music was Japanese music.

I've always loved independent music stores because the staff is usually there because of a genuine love and appreciation for music. They're more in-tune with the customers and I'm willing to pay the extra dollar or two for the service they provide. Some of my greatest music discoveries have come from picking up an album at an indy store and the cat behind the register saying "You like this man? Have you heard of so-and-so?" I prefer to shop where people understand me and the music- the music i like.

Obviously, it's had a huge effect on repetitive music or dance music or house music. Ambient in the last ten years has infiltrated into all those repetitive musics. I don't know what part it plays in pop necessarily but I'm sure there's some connection. But in all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience. I think it's infiltrated that pretty heavily.

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

If you observe, all classic love songs have a tinge of melancholy that comes naturally with the composition.

God bless classic rock. It's been very good to me; I'll tell you that.

A lot of church music really inspired me. A lot of ancient music that's made for God. If you get really into the history of music, inevitably you're going to have to get into sacred religious music.

I probably have the most versatile playlist in the world, from country to rap to classic rock to classical.

I love to unwind and watch movies, especially those from the classic black-and-white era.

During my career I’ve enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time.

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behaviour, and they are classic excuses.

A great classic means a man whom one can praise without having read.

I grew up listening to classic rock - the Kinks, Genesis, The Who, Pink Floyd.

In many cases, the decision to study music has robbed them of the ability to play music. They have lost respect for music that comes from within because they have been programmed to feel "unworthy".

European style is classic, with its own color, and to me, it always feels chic.

It was a special show that became a cult classic of sorts, and I made a lot of money for it.

When I was growing up in school, I wasn't the archetype of the classic American nerd; I was just different.

I still make music. I still write music and I record music, I just don't trust music promotion [and] distribution right now enough to record a new set of diligently worked-upon compositions. I do trust the audience and the audiences very much.

Poirot is a classic character from fiction, not a MacBook Air; he would not benefit from updates.

Eclectic yet classic with a playful bohemian twist is how Id describe my style.

When you're animating a music video, you have to animate to some set music. You're somewhat restricted by that, but you're also inspired by that. The animation becomes secondary if you're animating to a music video. Either way, it's important. Music has really helped my animation, that's for sure.

I like the classic look. Keep it simple. There’s only so much you can wear.

I always shoot my movies with score as certainly part of the dialogue. Music is dialogue. People don't think about it that way, but music is actually dialogue. And sometimes music is the final, finished, additional dialogue. Music can be one of the final characters in the film.

I'm increasingly less interested in classic storylines and that arc that we have come to expect.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

'Music Is Worth Living For' is an exaltation of my love for music itself. It's also me pleading with myself to recognize music's eternal power and glory, in the face of hardship and pain.

Even though it's called Music Of Black Origin, it's not just music for black people. Music is for everybody. I think it's good that black music is acknowledged, and it's open for lots of artists, including white artists who have been inspired by black musical heritage.

The escalation to attack undefended civilian targets is just a classic illustration of terrorism.

My parents met in music school and my father was a music professor and conductor. Growing up, we always had classical and contemporary music playing. There was a lot of Mozart and the Beatles.

I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

Musical theatre history is littered with bad reviews for now classic pieces.

My music is homegrown from the garden of New Orleans. Music is everything to me short of breathing. Music also has a role to lift you up - not to be escapist but to take you out of misery.

I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.'

Peer pressure and social norms are powerful influences on behavior, and they are classic excuses.

Hollywood style means classic glamour. My reference is the 1940s through the 1960s.

The first album is a classic record and I think the prototype of a sound that no one else does.

You have to be talented and you have to be lucky. Record companies are not signing classic rock groups anymore.

Classic authors should be older than I am, and wiser, and on-top of all their deadlines.

It doesn't matter how fashion or politics changes; you'll never change a classic song.

I was trained in classic theater, so I love me some good old crying.

Shane was a classic, and you can't find a better bad guy than Jack Palance.

Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.

Like, I'll wear a bright sweater with pants that are a more classic color.

The main difference between listening to music on a computer and listening to music on vinyl or disc is not sound quality or even portability; it's that when you listen to music on a computer, you listen to music on the same instrument you use to acquire it.

Even though I grew up playing folk music - and surf music, originally - I was listening to Motown and Stax on the radio as well. That music always resonated with me.

I would love to have a song that fusions western arrangement with classic Indian instruments.

I grew up listening to a lot of classic country, and I think that shows in my songwriting.

I have always loved David Bowie. When he began to experiment with pop music in the 80's, I really thought there was a really fascinating reverence for it. A lot of people looked at pop music as just idiot music, or dance music, and with this he was giving it a lot of respect.

I always go with a classic hair look - sleek and to the side - for election coverage.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

We are trying our best to spread the culture of Punjabi music all over the world. With the traditional rigid Punjabi music, people always had a myth that the music is very conventional, but nowadays, we are really thrilled to see how people are loving the tunes and beats of Punjabi music.

I've got this diverse education, growing up in classical music and existing between that and music that is more visceral, so for sure, I've always been interested in music from other cultures.

I love the classic crooners, but I got that from my mother - she worked in a record store.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.

The music business for me was never about buses and billboards you know, that was never the reason I got into the music business. The reason I wanted to get into the music business was because I genuinely, wholeheartedly love to sing. I love singing songs and telling stories and playing music, so that's why I got into the music business.

During my career I've enjoyed re-invigorating and contextualizing classic characters that are relatable to contemporary audiences.

My memories of mealtimes are a real bleed of music and food. Music never really stopped in the music room, because everyone would move out to the table with their sitars.

I hope our sound has introduced pop fans to classic and vice versa.