Top 1200 Music Festival Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

To be invited to the Park - the greatest free Shakespeare festival in the world - is a great honor, and I don't take it lightly.

The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

I did not like that name "world music" in the beginning. I think that African music must get more respect than to be put in a ghetto like that. We have something to give to others. When you look to how African music is built, when you understand this kind of music, you can understand that a lot of all this modern music that you are hearing in the world has similarities to African music. It's like the origin of a lot of kinds of music.

The crowd at Download Festival always welcomes us with a lot of energy so I can't wait to perform there again!

I once went to Alba, Italy, during their white truffle festival, and I was like, 'Just leave me here!'

I don't do black music. I don't do white music. I do fight music, unified in Christ music.

At a festival, some people are just there because they're waiting for, like, Calvin Harris to come on later.

We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you.

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.

In music, what is very important is temporality of space and length, based on the breathing space the director gives the music within the film, by separating the music from various elements of reality, like noises, dialogues... That's how you treat music properly, but it doesn't always happen this way. Music is often blamed, but it's not its fault.

In fact, Moon came on tour with us for a bit just before a big festival in Brighton, I think.

I got so much love for classical music and I hear so much incredible music.You should know a bunch of music and have respect for all sorts of genres and styles of music.

Guys like Future and me, we help create and shape the sound of music - not just Atlanta music, but music all over. If you really pay attention to the music being made, a lot of that is very heavily influenced by the stuff that we created. I listen to so many songs that's like, 'Damn, this sounds like my music!'

I can headline a festival and then literally, 10 minutes later, be walking around, and nobody notices.

When I used to do the Edinburgh Festival, there was a bunch of guys selling fresh oysters and I'd eat ten daily - marvellous.

I think my album, 'United We Are,' was the perfect blend or radio- and festival-friendly songs. I try to combine both.

If singing a couple of songs in a benefit will help keep the Festival alive and known, well, how can I say no to that?

I think Cannes is usually pretty fair in choosing what will play well to the home festival crowd.

I saw lots of music devices. I loved playing with music devices. And like most of the world, I thought of a music device as a music device. Steve Jobs tends to look beyond that, and he doesn't see a music device as having any importance at all - how fast it is, how many songs it can hold, and all that - he sees music itself to a person as a being the important thing.

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

I'd been making music that was intended to be like painting, in the sense that it's environmental, without the customary narrative and episodic quality that music normally has. I called this 'ambient music.' But at the same time I was trying to make visual art become more like music, in that it changed the way that music changes.

England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.

It's like soul music, isn't it all soul music? Otherwise what is it, non-soul music? I-have-no-soul music? Soulless music? People need to put a name on something to identify it, and I understand it.

I was 23 and saw my face on the side of the big T4 bus at V Festival and almost fainted.

I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing.

Doing a festival in Hong Kong was special, looking out and seeing this massive crowd and the city.

In the '70s, as a kid, someone took me to a Tournee of Animation festival at the L.A. County Museum of Art.

To be able to work with people who I have respected and admired, to be a part of something like the Cannes Film Festival, is surreal and brilliant.

We couldn't afford test screenings. This is a relatively low-budget movie [Don Jon]. But what we did have was the festival circuit.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

If you're not keen on crowds, it might be best to give Edinburgh a miss during festival time when it can get extremely busy.

It's going to be a combination Scopes trial, revolution in the streets, Woodstock Festival and People's Park, all rolled into one.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

There is no essential difference between classical and popular music. Music is music. I want to communicate with the listener who finds Indian classical music remote.

There are different milestones in my career. Playing a festival at 16 was a milestone and I was really happy when I played my first show.

Life is a festival only to the wise. Seen from the nook and chimneyside of prudence, it wears a ragged and dangerous front.

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Joe Sample was one of my heroes. I met him at the Curacao Jazz festival, and I fanned out like he was the Beatles!

I'm definitely influenced by the music. We dance to music, and you have to listen to it and phrase your dancing and movement in a certain way to compliment the music. We have to work hand in hand, the dancer and the music.

I think each one of us should try and do small things on Diwali so that those who are not as privileged as we are can also have a good festival.

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

I don't want to be defined solely by what I do as a jazz musician at a club or a festival. That's not all of me. It's not even close.

I was raised a musician and I played classic music, violin, in orchestras and music comedy theaters, I have music running around in my head all the time, and if I hear music that's too interesting, I have to pay attention to it.

Electronic music lends itself to an abstract way of storytelling, so it keeps evolving. Theres a whole movement truly driving music further and there is no other music innovating as much as film music

I have seen many festival films and I will be blunt, I don't think 'Madras Cafe' was ready for festivals.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

There are many fans of hard rock music that have been wrongly pigeonholed as apathetic. This music is not music for the elitist coffeehouse culture in SoHo. It' s rock 'n' roll music for kids across the land, and I think that makes it much more subversive in a way, in that it has the form and the function of a powerful, populist music, but it can carry very incendiary messages.

Now I'm doing a film festival for kids and writing a script about a kidnapped journalist in Afghanistan.

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

'Hum Dono' was accepted in a very big way. It was the official entry at the 1962 Berlin Film Festival.

I think for me, the only depressing music is music that doesn't give credence to those kinds of feelings, music that's just written for money or commercial reasons. Sad music can be the most uplifting thing in the world.

Ganesh Chaturthi is very close to my heart. The festival brings with it joy, love, and happiness for everyone.

You can't say that people don't love music anymore because they do. If we say that all the music stopped, if music stops now, the world can't handle that. We need our music.

You can't host an Italian film festival without Marcello Mastroianni. It just doesn't feel right.

We are a multicultural family. My mother is Hindu, my father Muslim. We celebrate every festival, be it Diwali or Eid.

I wasn't making music for the sake of music but rather making music in the context of other music. At the same time, it doesn't mean I'm not going to try and do that some day.

In Sweden we have a jazz festival, and I would try to see all these people like Angie Stone there when I was younger.

Early American music and early folk music, before the record became popular and before there were pop stars and before there were venues made to present music where people bought tickets, people played music in the community, and it was much more part of a fabric of everyday life. I call that music 'root music.'