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"1041 Music Quotes

I've dreamt of being in a movie musical for a long time. For some reason I never even thought 'Les Mis' would be possible.

Dreamt Movie Musical Long time
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As a boy, I'd always had an interest in theater. But the idea at my school was that drama and music were to round out the man. It wasn't what one did for a living. I got over that.

A boy Interest Theater Idea
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I never wanted to go longer than five years off the stage. Not necessarily musicals, but just doing a play or something.

Never Wanted Stage Musical
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James Brown's music still sounds as fresh and as good and as new as it did when he first created it.

Brown Created Did First
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If you can whistle the melody, then the song will stick. But if you need a bunch of machines to make it sound good, you're probably not writing anything that's going to last a long time.

Anything Bunch Going Good
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I go through periods listening to specific types of music. Because I'm a musician, listening to music is... it's a bit like work for me. A little bit.

Because Bit Go Like
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Everybody knew James Brown. Every musician dreamed of being in his band.
Band Being Brown Dreamed
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I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from.

Bus Coming Hand Know
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If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

Agree Music Self Absorbed Sentimental
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Music is like a huge release of tension.
Huge Like Music Release
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Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

Enjoy Living Music Selling
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In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?

Blackness Everyday Everyday Life Life
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If I'm in the studio, I'm completely on music. I try to go to that place and that's the toughest thing for me to do. When I'm with other musicians, sometimes I go back to, almost like, childhood, because that's what I always wanted to be.

Almost Always Back Because
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A lot of people may not know how competitive it is to play classical music, because when you think about it, the music that you're playing is music that's been here for years. And all you're trying to do is improve upon it when you play.

About Because Been Classical
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Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Daughter Had Made Music
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Nobody wants to hear R&B. It's sad. If you want to be on the radio you got to stay young.

Got Hear Nobody Radio
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Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

Actually Beautiful Because Cello
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If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

Demo Finished Going Hate
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So dance music is now pop music. So now, as a dance producer, what do I have to do? So I'm starting to do alien music, because pop is not pop anymore; we need to go alien to be independent.

Alien Anymore Music Dance
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If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

Play Profile Radio Artist
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All the big artists I talk to say that they are trapped in a formula and they are looking for the music of tomorrow.

Artists Big Formula Music
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I mix up all styles on my albums because that is what music is about now.

Albums Mix Music Styles
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The more melodies and chord changes, the less good it is for the clubs, but the better it is for radio, because it makes it really emotional.

Better Chord Clubs Emotional
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Traveling all around the world, music sounds different.

Around Different Music Sounds
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There's many different genres, and when you see R&B and pop and house, as well as electronic, come together, that's the reality of what music is.

Come Different Electronic Genres
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Music will forever be a strong force destined to bring us all together.

Music Forever Strong force Together
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Music has improved me as a human being and made me more receptive to business. Now I am more open to opportunities and I have more exposure.

Music Improved Human being Opportunity
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Everyone who makes music is a good collaborator at their foundation because in order to make music, you have to connect to it in a way that other people can’t.
Make music Good collaborator Foundation
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Music is the weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Music Weapon War Unhappiness
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You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

Can tell Person Playlist
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Jah is my song and thats make me feel so strong

Jah Song Feel So strong
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I make sounds while all these young musicians make jam, I make good sounds but they are always jamming, they don’t make good sound, they just jam.

Sound Young musician Jam Good sound
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Music is truly spiritual and amazing.

Music Truly spiritual Amazing
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Music ministers; Please don’t let your music be an extension of colonial rule, find your sound and keep it.

Music ministers An extension Colonial rule
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Those who mix gospel music with something else don’t go far in their careers. If you don’t stand on the rock of ages, you will fall.

Gospel music Something else Go far Careers
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If you don’t have the call, do not go near gospel music. You must be called by God before you come into the industry.

Don't have The call Go near Gospel music
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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Most important Thing Music Sense
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Never believe Pop music Escapist trash Darkness
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I produce music as an apple tree produces apples.

Produce Music Apple tree Produces
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There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.

More difficult Talking about Music
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The artist who does not feel completely satisfied by elegant lines, by harmonious colors, and by a beautiful succession of chords does not understand the art of music.

The artist Feel Completely satisfied Harmonious colors
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The same way music can be used to tell young people ‘Don’t do drugs’, ‘Stay with one partner’, ‘have protected sex’ all of that can still be communicated with dance.

Music Drug Protected sex Dance
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It's always interesting to me that we all hear music differently. It's an awesome experience to hear what other people hear.

Always interesting Hear music Differently Awesome experience
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Our music will continue to have an impact in people's lives long after we finally call it quits.
Our music Continue Have Impact
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Fame is a thing that happens when you do something you love - nobody wants to be famous for the wrong reasons. It's not my goal, but if being more famous means I can get more music out, that's cool.

Fame Happens Something You love
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I'm making music that I love and I want to hear. At the same time, things like making money, making crazy money - you gotta find ways to reach to everybody but uplift everybody.

Making music Love Same time Making money
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I can make any type of music, so I wouldn't want to describe myself as having one type of sound. I think music is about keeping it diverse.

Can make Music Describe myself Sound
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I make negative music, but I also make positive music because that's what thrown at me with life.

I make Negative music Positive What thrown
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With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things.

Other people Swapping music Always listening
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As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

More music Really want People My show
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