Top 1200 Music Making Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Our focus is still on country, but, really, on whatever music our artists are making.

It's impossible to overstate how important social media has been to me and the development of my career. The fact that I can go and play venues that hold 25,000 people and sell them out is crazy.I don't have music on the radio. I'm not a pop culture icon. I'm just this kid making dance music. And yet I still can sell out massive arenas. It's truly incredible, and I think a lot of that is because of social media.

If you are making music for other people, you will have to be aware of how people relate to it.

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans.

We're making the music we love, and hopefully the fans are gonna love it, too.

There's the drums, the music, the melodies, the lyrics, the production, the artwork: there are so many elements to making an album, and the drumming is just a very small fraction of what I focus on.

I've been making music for a while. And I could read about myself on the Internet for a while.

The day I stop making music would be the day I keel over, really.

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Making music is like shopping for me. Every song is like a new pair of shoes.

I don't think there is really a favorite, I'm very fond of film making as a whole and as a medium and of course, there are some that I've enjoyed making more than others but I've enjoyed making all of them.

I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.

I am afraid of what is happening in the West. In a way, the link between art and politics is about to snap. Music and politics, it seems, are increasingly considered to be separate domains. Music is about making peace, not conflict, they say. And, therefore, it is best to do what is considered normal and uncontroversial. Increasingly, accepting the status quo is a precondition for being considered entertainment, while protest culture is grouped alongside politics.

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I have no interest in making music solely for a white audience. If that's what our audience is, I don't really feel responsible for that.

Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle for social connections, discussions and ideas.

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

I'm addicted to making music, but I don't want to do it forever. I just want a farm. Farms make you happy.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain't I?

If he'd been making shell-cases during the war it might have been better for music.

Our job is just to keep making great-sounding music and great performances.

I was making music simultaneously while studying B. Sc. and M. Sc.

And the input that we always got from Deadheads, at the moment of making the music, was always a factor.

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

[In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

We just like making the music that we make. It makes us super, super happy.

I was blessed. I had a great childhood and great parents that loved music and family. I moved from England when I was almost 18 and been on my own ever since and have been trying to make a living in the music business for the past twelve years. A lot of people say I'm an overnight success, but it's an overnight success that's been twelve years in the making.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

I enjoy making music alone, and I like keeping my options open for how I release my own songs. But everybody in Grizzly Bear is full of ideas. So it's kind of boring to come to the band with a complete song and be like: "Here's what I want you to do." With this record, we wanted to make everything feel like everyone - music that we could never do on our own. That's a real gift, and it's one of the best things about being in a band like this.

There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!'

One of my goals in making music is to make the world seem bigger, and life seem larger.

For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.

I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

I go out partying to figure out exactly who I'm making music for. You can't just guess.

The New Kids took some hits for, you know, not writing their own music. But on a songwriting standpoint, I mean, I'd never written music before when I was in the group, ... Now the music is my music, so it's kind of like my baby, and that was a whole different experience.

I don't care about making anything new. I make music to express an emotion, and if the emotion is nostalgic, so be it.

I don't call my music 'gangsta rap.' I call my music reality, something that really happened, something that has really happened, something that will really happen, something that could really happen. It ain't nothing that I'm making up; I think that's why people listen to it.

Making music is all about forgetting about everything around you.

I plan to stay in music. I plan to keep making records.

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

That's one of the main things I do, work with choreographers. I've been doing it a long time, and it's a real important part of my life as a soundmaker, making music for dance.

Years ago, when I was making music, I was sending it off to radio stations and getting told it was 'too urban.' But what else am I supposed to make?

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.

The thing is that when I'm making music, I'm not really chasing that sound - the Atlanta sound that we hear a lot.

I sense people respond more to the honest approach to making music instead of the manufactured approach.

As far as making a living, acting has been much more lucrative. Music's been tough.

I love touring and I love being in the studio making music, so that's where my passion lies.

Making a documentary, there are thousands of choices, all the time: the angles and the pace and the choice of characters, the choice of music.

I was interested in a whole range of music that I used to play, popular music -- particularly American music -- that I heard a lot of when I was a teenager," "I think at a certain point it dawned on me that myself playing this music wasn't very convincing. It was more convincing when we played music that came from our own stock of tradition. ... I certainly feel a lot more comfortable playing so-called Celtic music.

We've been fully involved in making our music, and to be personally involved is what we really asked for.

My heart gets tight and it's almost like my soul gets congested if I'm not making music.

I'm a computer nerd. I'm behind my computer, like, 12 hours a day making new music.

I'm not a very social person. I'm interested in music and I'm obviously tight with my family - my daughter. I'm not at the club hanging out at night. I'm at home making records.

I'm not making music for old people or young people. [It's] for everybody that wants to listen to it.

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.

I'm obsessed by film. I'm obsessed with music and producing and making things happen.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.