Top 1200 Music Festival Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and its intensified at a festival.

Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music.

I always go to the Cannes Film Festival and it's just such a glamorous time.

Music is music and I think music people are the delivers, the actors, when they put their music out they want to insert their character in it. So they call it such and such so you know how they live so to speak.

Until you've been to Cannes, it's hard to describe to someone the magnitude of that festival.

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.

I listen to a lot of religion-based music, culturally rich music. Ethnic and world music. Music from Latin America has been influencing me in particular.

I grew up in a chawl where the ganpati festival is celebrated in a big way.

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music

It probably wasn't until Nine Inch Nails played the first Lollapalooza that I actually went to a festival.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Live interaction with a crowd is a cathartic, spiritual kind of exchange, and it's intensified at a festival.

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival.

It's too bad music can't be like movies. For me, playing music and listening to music and creating music is very environmental. It creates a certain environment; it sets a specific mood.

Though all festivals are important, this Cannes Festival starts off the season.

The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.

Free music, to me, is music without boundaries. It's music that... says you don't have to play a blues in three chord change. See what I'm saying? Music that can go from any range.

One of the nicest things to do in Kingston on a Sunday is eat johnnycake, Festival and fish at Hellshire Beach.

I think for me to be involved in a festival, there has to be a strong element of songwriting and musicianship.

Pop music is a difficult term to define. I think about good music and bad music. Good music is good music whatever origin it comes from.

Hanukkah is...the festival of lights, instead of one day of presents, we get eight crazy nights

One of my least favourite gigs was a festival. There weren't many people there and they were all talking.

That's the kind of music I want SoulBird to represent: music with intelligence and heart, music that moves people in their souls and their bodies. Music with wings.

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music.

If you're going to go to a festival, drink water for six days before you get there.

I live in a small village on the Norfolk coast, far from the Edinburgh festival.

In Toronto, the film festival is like a carnival... entire families come to it.

A funeral isn't for the dead. You'll simply be a stage set for a kind of festival maybe. And besides, you won't even be there.

I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms.

I'm from Louisiana, and that's where I got my start, in Cajun music. There's a huge music scene down there centered around our culture. Those are people that are not making music for a living. They are making music for the fun of it. And I think that's the best way I could have been introduced to music.

My training in music has been very eclectic - as first a flute player from classical chamber music to jazz, Greek, Brazilian and African music to contemporary concert music.

I would find myself being inspired by things that I've heard as a kid: Nigerian music or African music, some French music or some Jamaican music. When it's time for music to be made, it's almost like my ancestors just come into me and then it's them.

I gravitate to rhythmic music, so I listen to jazz, world music, Indian music, Hawaiian music, all kinds.

I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

I listen to all kinds of music - new music, old music, music of my colleagues, everything.

When I do the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, I always go across to Loch Ness and stay there.

Cannes is a fun festival, but some people use it as a place to smash a movie, or to destroy it.

I was acting before I was modelling, when I was very young, doing the Edinburgh Festival and that sort of stuff.

When you grow up, life makes you so busy that you completely lose the excitement around a festival.

I keep my music heartfelt and stick to making real music. I wouldn't even say it's hip-hop music. My music is 'reality rap.'

I love pop music just as much as I like rap music, or ill-ass hip-hop music, or rock music.

I don't need a sensationalized headline to sell music or to bring attention to my music. It's the music and it's always been about the music.

What is Music? How do you define it? Music is a calm moonlit night, the rustle of leaves in Summer. Music is the far off peal of bells at dusk! Music comes straight from the heart and talks only to the heart: it is Love! Music is the Sister of Poetry and her Mother is sorrow!

It's great to see Latino music coming to the mainstream, but at the same time, there are also a lot more styles to explore: African music, Indian music, Chinese music.

You put music in categories because you need to define a sound, but when you don't play it on your so-called radio stations that claim to be R&B or jazz or whatever... All music is dance music. But when people think of dance music, they think of techno or just house. Anything you can dance to is dance music. I don't care if it's classical, funk, salsa, reggae, calypso; it's all dance music.

Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977.

There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.

Life is a happy thing, a festival to be enjoyed rather than a drudgery to be endured.

Country music was the music I was brought up on. It's the music that's closest to my heart and the music that speaks to me the most, and it's always been a big influence on my own songwriting.

The best music to dance to is my music! Haha! I say anything that speaks to you. I personally enjoy dancing to hip-hop, R&B music, EDM/trap music.

We program the festival, after 20 years, exactly the way we did on the first day.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.

Festival culture is all about evolving consciousness and generating a sense of unity, hope, and possibility.

I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals.

I write music, it’s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesn’t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words about music are less important than the music.