Top 1200 New Music Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in the growth of the new plant of progress and in the fruits it will bear. These fruits will be a new breed of the human species, a human with new views, new vigor, new resiliency, and a new view of the human purpose. The plant: the tree of human destiny.

I very much enjoy working with talented filmmakers who have a good sense for music, who have a strong feel for music and for what music can do in a film.

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.

There's always been good and bad music. Many composers hide behind modern music in order to not make music.

I see music in colours. I love music that's black, pink, purple or red - but I hate music that's green, yellow or brown.

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.

When I lived in New York, there wasn't as much TV or film around. I got asked to do a couple of indie films, just based on me being from The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle. I did a couple of indie movies from Japan and one from Canada, and I thought it was an exciting, fun thing to do. I had a great time doing it, it was just that, in New York, there really wasn't as much. My studio in New York closed, so I moved out to L.A. and just started looking into composing as another thing to do, as a musician. I like it a lot. It's fun and it's a different way of thinking about music.

When a new baby laughs for the first time a new fairy is born, and as there are always new babies there are always new fairies.

The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.

I like my 1980s music. That's why I would bring that back, in a new kind of way, for the people of today. Those are my inspirations.

I don't listen to much rap outside of Run DMC and the Beasties, but then I'm pretty burned out on most new music.

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.

The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.

In ancient times music was the foundation of all the sciences. Education was begun with music with the persuasion that nothing could be expected of a man who was ignorant of music.

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

Everyone loves to run with music in their ears, but when the music becomes adaptive, the music plays a more important role in the experience.

I'm an avowed modernist. I'm for the new thing. I came to the conclusion many years ago that rock music is essentially a conservative form.

I think it's not only Babymetal's sound but also the fact that we dance to metal that represents a new way of expressing this genre of music.

Folk music has been our popular music... There is a myth that youngsters only like heavy metal or rock music, but that's not true.

I'm a very outgoing guy when it comes to music and I like all kinds of sounds of music and genres of music.

Northeastern folk music influenced me from a very young age. Sachin Dev Burman is one of the inspirational musicians in Indian film music. The way he fused folk music with his signature style is amazing. So, I am aware of the beauty of northeast folk music.

I think I go with the Duke Ellington view on music. He said, 'There's two kinds of music - there's good music, and then there's the other kind.'

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.

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.

Each time a new baby is born there is a possibility of reprieve. Each child is a new being, a potential prophet, a new spiritual prince, a new spark of light precipitated into the outer darkness.

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.

I feel like I can be infinitely inspired because New York is huge. There's always a new street I can go to, or a billion new people who I haven't met that I could write about. New York is very humbling.

I kind of got into music in middle school, although at the time I didn't know it as punk music so much as just rock music.

Music is my No. 1 passion. If you made me choose between music and food, it's definitely music.

I don't listen to much music on the go because I tend either to be writing my own music or wanting a break from the music around me.

Dabbling in music and being in music when I was young I had my own view of what I thought music was whether it was jazz, r&b, or hip hop.

Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.

Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.

And of course, in my writing, there is the constant theme of music, love of, preoccupation with, music. Music is the single thread making my life into a coherency.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

I always wanted to know what the music behind some music was, or where it came from, and that gave me a point of reference for understanding the music I was listening to.

The Clash were innovative, radical and helped drive a change in music that was ground-breaking. In comparison to some of the music today they sounded like they meant it. I still listen to their music today to remind myself what music made with commitment sounds like.

New York feels like the whole city is into dance music. That's not how it felt when I was younger. There was more of a hipster scene.

I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do including creating music, a new song.

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand?

Americana Music is about all sorts of different music. It's very free and open: a world where people just like authentic music.

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.

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.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I actually spend as much time listening to new music as to old. Probably more. I just try to get something out of it all.

In an era of magic conveniently available at the touch of a button, new music should on principle represent something akin to 'danger'.

I listen to music all the time. I need music and I love music and I appreciate it. It inspires me.

Jane's Addiction has only put out new music when our hearts were in and when we had something to say creatively.

Moving to New York City and playing and listening with the wonderful music community that we have here has really been the guiding force of where I've arrived.

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.

As long as we keep learning new music and getting better musically, there's a good chance that the record deal won't change anything.

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 think the music that speaks to me the most is music that is personal. And that's the music that I'm trying to make.

In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.

Clearly, things are definitely changing in big ways as far as the way we consume music, listen to music, and what we expect from music.

You have to be serious, and you must have a constantly inquiring mind. But I find it's new music that really stretches me, both technically and as an interpreter.