Arts education is a big part of building a 21st century creative mind, and I think that we have let way too many kids lose their way by not drawing in their young minds with music, dance, painting and the other various ways we can express those things we do not have words for.
When words leave off, music begins.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Writing music is very, very clinical. You just sit down at a piano, map out a theme and when all the technicalities come together, out pours the music.
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
Music keeps you young. Having music in your life keeps you open to things.
Live music is the cure for what ails ya.
Music is the universal language of mankind.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time.
I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration.
It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
Music is not a subject to be discussed. It has to be experienced.
Music happens. It cannot be made.
I come from a small village and have had no formal training in music or any classes from the masters of Indian classical music.
To me, music is that which connects human hearts. It is something that takes you to unknown levels.
Questioning the origin of music is like asking why the breeze is soothing, why you shiver in exhilaration when the spray from the waterfall hits you.
My music is for the world. Let them enjoy it.
A good mind should tell the difference between noise and music.
Music is as vast as the sky, the oceans, the universe.
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you're left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you're just left with rhythm.
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
People think, for some reason, that I don't care about creativity and art, or helping people. So I would say that the biggest misconception is, when you think about me, when you think about my name, I don't want you to think about design or clothes or music. I want you to think about a person that's just trying to help people.
It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story.
If you have good songs and a real desire to make music, the next thing to do, instead of approach record companies, is to get yourself a really good manager because then it allows you to focus on your profession of being a musician. Then they can focus on the darker art of the record label and the music industry.
If I hadn't had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.
Mathematics is the music of reason.
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
If you look at the whole New Rave movement, the big common ground is definitely the fun element. It's more outward-looking music than introspective.
I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about black music, about soul music.
I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a day. Every day. Man. I thought all she wanted was for me not to have any fun. Next thing you know, you have a career in music. Now, not everybody's going to go on and be Mozart or Michael Jackson. But music makes you smarter.
I would hope my legacy would be bringing smiles to faces. Happiness with my music.
There are people out there who are into traditional country music and for those people you have artists like Brad Paisley and Josh Turner and Alan Jackson. Then you have artists with a progressive style of country music, like myself and Eric Church and Luke Bryan and Miranda Lambert.
Rap music was and is, for me, everything.
Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it's very hard to teach racism to a teenager who's listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It's hard to say, 'That guy is less than you.' The kid is like, 'I like that guy, he's cool. How is he less than me?
I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.
The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge.
I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.