Top 1200 Music And Lyrics Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The lack of quality dance music and the fact that here in the United States, house music is not seen as anything viable by the music industry. I figured that this might be another shot at the industry looking at the possibilities of house music and giving it a little bit more legitimacy than what they give it. It's a host of different things, but it's something that I needed to say musically.

For me, let's keep jazz as folk music. Let's not make jazz classical music. Let's keep it as street music, as people's everyday-life music. Let's see jazz musicians continue to use the materials, the tools, the spirit of the actual time that they're living in, as what they build their lives as musicians around.

Music is really everything I know. To be honest every experience I've ever had has been brought up from music and everything I do is because of music. I don't know anything else, I think about music before I go to sleep and it just really is everything that I am.

Banjos are used in Celtic, English folk music and obviously American music. But not that much in pop music. But it's more versatile than people realise it to be. It's a beautiful instrument, very rhythmic and melodic. You can do anything with it.

Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.

'Kudi Maga' is a pub-style song, but the lyrics are really nice and the beats are catchy.

Christian music, gospel music, sometimes you'll fall asleep at church but music wakes you up, the song can speak to you in a way that's puts a fire in you. So if I'm working with a mainstream artist I'm trying to find a bigger purpose.

The show is coming from the music. I get on the stage with the band, and I communicate with my musicians, and the music that we create and all that is coming out of us. The music is making the show and the music is creating the atmosphere, so if you close your eyes and listen and feel what it is that's coming out of the speakers, that's the whole point.

With rock and metal, I think a lot of people connect with the lyrics because they feel like they don't fit in.

There are still artists that do a great job with a song, and they care about the lyrics, and it's not just mindless drivel.

Its a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. Its a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

I think there's a difference between the type of folk music that people put into the box of "folk music" and then there's the kind of folk music that I aspire to and am in awe of, and that is the kind of folk music where it's very limited tools - in most cases a guitar, in a self-taught style that is idiosyncratic and particular to that musician.

I've always written poetry and lyrics. My first husband, who was a musician, we wrote a bunch of songs together.

I have always preferred paper and ink to a computer screen and I still write most of my lyrics by hand.

It's a combination of melody and lyrics, not one without the other. It's a confluence of these different elements that makes something powerful.

I'm from Kenner, Louisiana, where music is played for every occasion in life. There's music for being born, there's music for dying... It's just natural. Families get really good because they play a lot together.

I wanna be able to stand on the stage and hold out the mic and people sing all the lyrics to my song.

If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics.

I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself.

I was very engaged by the folk music movement.Bob Dylan; Joan Baez; Peter, Paul and Mary. And then I sort of discovered world music, and fell in love with ethnic music of all sorts.

What I decided was I'd be happier not being in the confines of a corporate infrastructure producing music. That's when I was free, and it opened up the door to have a different personality and incarnations. That's really when I had success in my music life. I was able to license my music.

I write most of my own lyrics for my album and I am helping to produce some of the songs as well.

So what's happening with the audio/visuality, for the first time we are doing the music - the people who would come to the concert love the music - they loved him and loved his music - for the first time in concert it's not only the music. Now it's time to know the man. We know the music, but what was the man like?

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

I think love lyrics have contributed to the general aura of bad mental health in America.

In my opinion, it seems like music is taking a bit of a turn. Look at Mumford and Sons, and the Lumineers. It seems like people and music fans are enjoying the more artistic side of music, and that popular music is taking a turn and accepting that, so I appreciate that.

Performance and music are inexorably tied together. And hell, I'll watch Brittany's Toxic music video all day. But there's a difference between that and listening to Leo Kottke play guitar. One is entertainment. The other is Music.

I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.

There are many songs that have become popular and people sing along with it without knowing the meaning of its lyrics.

In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.

Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.

Critics always get the lyrics wrong in reviews, which is amusing - especially when they use them against you.

I'm not sure I ever try to make a case for the music. I mean, sometimes the music isn't even that good. I just tell the band's stories; if I describe the music, it's to explain how it moved the overall story along.

I'm a fan of music, some rock music. But I like many types of music. But I suppose a kind of longstanding love of specific bands would be Radiohead, Wilco, Neil Young, Tom Waits, REM.

Lyrics have got to be simple and catchy. A hook is more important than an overall concept or story.

I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.

I come from an era where lyrics were full of imagery and metaphor, and that's all I know. I think people miss that.

Look, when a song becomes a hit, it happens because of its tune and melody, and not for the lyrics in the first place.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

I generally, you know, I don't - I don't really scat. I'm - I'm basically a songwriter so you need a little lyrics that rhyme and stuff.

To go on the road and see people sing my own lyrics back to me is just fantastic.

Sometimes, to be honest with you, our lyrics were written a day before the vocal had to be done.

I write lyrics. putting words and melodies to my songs. That's a real challenge, I take it on vigorously.

I'm terrible remembering lyrics. Before a tour, I have to remind myself. I have to go through the songs.

Growing up, all I cared about in a song, before I really listened to lyrics, was that beat.

Being in the music business requires having a very strong resolve. You must be completely committed to the craziness that will inevitably ensue when pursing a career in music. There is no one who is immune to this. Not even the biggest music icons.

In a novel, the biggest symbiosis exists between plot and character. In a song, it would be the lyrics and the melody.

The lyrics are critical of dogmatic belief, too, as I see it in many lifestyles and philosophy religious or otherwise.

It's this funny thing now: You sign up to be a musician because you want to write music, but you don't spend your time writing music. Instead, you go around the world selling the music you've already made.

Personally, I have a hard time playing live. A big part of it is because the lyrics are really private.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

I think we're returning to more of the original vibration of music and creativity through the removal of this distortion called the music industry. That's where we're heading. And it'll cut out a lot of music if people ever expected to make money.

The music is an important and crucial part to an animated film. You don't think about it, but you can watch Tom and Jerry with no words, for hours, and the music dictates the emotion and where the story is going and how you're supposed to feel. Everything is in the music.

With this record [The Colour and the Shape], I started taking the lyrics more seriously. This is a very personal album.

I came to the Unites States and realised I had a knack for coming up with rhymes and lyrics.

For me, personally, the most interesting music comes from the popular sector - from film and pop music - since contemporary classical music got stuck and went into directions where it lost a lot of the public by over-intellectualizing.

It takes me, like, half an hour to write the lyrics for a song. They just come out.

The music that I make isn't really like any of the music that I listen to. I think I listen to cool music, but I know that I don't make cool music - so it's kind of funny!

Sometimes when I'm writing lyrics, it's a very loose train of thought, and wherever that takes me, I let it flow.