Top 1200 Music City Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'm not as aware of categories in music as some people are. To me it's just music. I'm interested in all kinds of music.

I find that when you grow and evolve with music, the music understands you, and vice versa - whether or not the creator of that music knows.

Being here in the city of Atlanta, a great city, being part of the Hawks organization for me has been great.

Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was the blues.

I love New York, but it's a rough city. It's not dangerous now the way it was in the 70's or the 80's, but it's still a rough city. It's hard to hack it there. Life is harder than it is on the West Coast. To be able to deal with that, you have to have a lot of aspirational feelings pinned on being there.

So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's playing in the background that helps them through their day.

When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

Carol City has its hot moments, and it has its cool moments. If you were from one area of Carol City, people didn't mess with you.

It is the responsibility of music composers to add some classical music elements into their songs to make the music genre popular.

To me, music is not a stunt. Music is not a joke. I take every lick of music that I've ever played very serious.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

You can save the city, but having the city be in jeopardy is one thing and having the people you care about be in jeopardy is another.

I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.

You know a photo session is really a dance and making sure that they're comfortable and for me it's the music, the music, the music. That is everything.

The only other style of music that attempts to go to the deeper place of the silence that is music is New Age music.

Salt Lake City gave me a lot of surprises. How progressive the city actually is, for instance, compared to the rest of Utah - it's like this purple dot in a sea of red. And the government there is kind of a mix of conservative values and progressive ideas.

Poetry is music though, unfortunately, not all music is poetry. Because music has other carriers to take its message - beats, lyrics, singers, bass players - anyone in music can rise to make a major statement but in poetry there are only words to do the work. And they do sometimes have to sweat.

I think the music industry is something that's very separate from music. So, by always staying on the music side of it, I've found success.

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

Also Ho Chi Minh City is broken up into districts so it's much like little cities within the city, in your home district folks take the time to smile and wave as you pass by or even try to have a little chat.

There are two kinds of music: good music and bad music. Both are and will continue to co-exist.

Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything.

Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.

My Sin City heroes are knights in dirty, blood-caked armor. They bring justice to a world that gives them no medals, no praise, no reward. That world, that city, often kills them for their brave service.

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly: radio, records, churches, cats on the street, everywhere music. And with records, the whole history of music is open to everyone who wants to hear it.

The 'music industry' is not a term I use. I tend to concentrate on music, and the music business is something different.

I love everything about Philadelphia, and its food is like the city itself: real-deal, hearty, and without pretension. We've always had an underdog vibe as a city, but that just makes us try harder, and I love our scrappiness and scruffiness.

I think the fact that my wife died in Mexico City makes it very important to me; my life went up in smoke at that moment, the family and the future we were going to have. At that point, I was anchored to the city in a way I've never been anchored to a place before.

Everything I do, I'm always playing music. When I wake up in the morning, I'm playing music. When I'm showering, I've got music playing. When I go to the field, music is playing.

Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the other is all about salvation, they are identical, one-dimensional company towns built up by the sheer will of true believers.

I'd probably like to get into acting - I've got lots of things that I could do, but at the moment it's just music, music, music.

Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.

Music is magic. Music does s**t that money could never do. Music unites nations and stops wars.

Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

Throughout my 20s it was all about achieving and working as hard as possible. To the point that you don't think twice about working in a music studio with no windows from 11 to 11. And you don't bat an eyelid if you fly four times a week and do promo in a different city each time.

Music is my religion. Music is the only thing that has never failed me. People let you down, music won't.

Next to meditation is music, soulful music, the music that stirs and elevates our aspiring consciousness.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

I can't pretend that I don't subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.

Scapegoating worked in practice while it still had religious powers behind it. You loaded the sins of the city on to the goat’s back and drove it out, and the city was cleansed. It worked because everyone knew how to read the ritual, including the gods. Then the gods died, and all of a sudden you had to cleanse the city without divine help. Real actions were demanded instead of symbolism The censor was born, in the Roman sense. Watchfulness became the watchword: the watchfulness of all over all. Purgation was replaced by the purge.

I grew up listening to a lot of emo music, a lot of rock music, a lot of rap music, a lot of trap music, funk, everything.

A lot of people celebrate the '80s. I was a '90s guy. The best music, and basketball, was at its high in the '90s, with all of the best players, playing the best style of basketball in that era, and Michael Jordan winning six rings in the city I grew up in.

There are artists that are using computers in all genres - Kendrick Lamar's music is electronic-made, and Taylor Swift is the same thing. There's a lot of pop music, underground music, and music for films made with computers. In that sense, it's not going to go away.

We did such a great job of creating the interstate highway system in Oklahoma City that we don't have traffic congestion. You can actually get a speeding ticket during rush hour in the city. That's how great our traffic flows.

My favorites are Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, but those are a little off in terms of getting Detroit right on the head. But of course, you know, "Dancing In The Streets." You can't forget the Motor City. And we can't forget the Motor City.

I love how music can create an audiovisual experience. To me, some of the best music is the music that does that.

Musicians do music for the girls. We do music for the money. We do music for the recognition, for the rock and roll history. But we also do it because it's fun.

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.

In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.

The Indian music scene is completely dominated by Bollywood music. We need to create space for indi-pop music.

I'm still trying to do me and just make good music and quality music, music that you can feel.

When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

I've always had music in my life. When I went running, I would put music on. Even before games I'd have music on.

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Music is the medium... how you use the music is different. Everyone use music to a positive light and effect. So it really depends on the individual and one's outlook. My music depicts life in general and the things that I see and the things that influence me, and such forth.

Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

I'm a big fan of music, I'm a student of music, and I just wanna learn and keep enhancing my education about the music.

Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.