Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
My music, my songs are 100 percent inspired by girl power.
I basically taught myself how to DJ, but I've been inspired by DJs throughout my whole career. I have some good friends that would hook us up with music. You learn some little things here and there from each DJ and you just take it and put your own style into to it.
For me, a paragraph in a novel is a bit like a line in a poem. It has its own shape, its own music, its own integrity.
Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.
Live music is where you get the inspiration and the creativity.
Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.
Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.
The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.
Pop music is aspirin and the blues are vitamins.
Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours.
I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.
The aggressive side of me comes across in my music, but I'm just a sweet girl.
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.
Philosophy is the highest music.
Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
There are times pop music is the end result when I'm in the studio, but I don't really go in and say, 'Today I am going to make a pop song,' but it can happen.
Music is music, ultimately. If it makes you feel good, cool.
What's missing from pop music is danger.
There's this thing called compulsory licensing law that allows artists through the record companies to take your music at will without your permission.
The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.
When I first started out in this music industry, I was most concerned with freedom. Freedom to produce, freedom to play all the instruments on my records, freedom to say anything I wanted to.
The music industry is a matrix that is counter to what is natural and right.
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to keep my private life private and my public persona more into music, you know?
Young people have decided they like to listen to music in a certain way, through ear buds, and that's fine with me as long as it doesn't bother them that they're not hearing 90 percent of the music that way.
My father left his piano at the house when he left, and I wasn't allowed to play it when he was there because I wasn't as good as him. So when he left, I was determined to get as good as him, and I taught myself how to play music, and I just stuck with it, and I did it all the time.
The world's most famous and popular language is music.
There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.
To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.
I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her being taken away in a strait jacket. That's something you never forget. And my stepmother was like in the movie 'Precious.' I couldn't handle it. So I said to myself, 'I don't have a mother. I don't need one. I'm going to let music be my mother.'
Music fills the infinite between two souls.
I normally listen to Spanish music - well, Latin music. I like a lot of singers.
I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me - like food or water.
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth. I do them all, like a good utility man.
Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.
A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder, Frank Ocean, and Jeff Rosenstock for the Rex music. They were also the first three artists that released albums where I enjoyed every song.
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.
Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.