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" Quotes and Sayings About music

Ever since the decision of Robin Thicke and Pharrell, we believe that it was important to make sure that we are safe. When that Robin Thicke verdict came out, we realized that the game had changed in music.

Ever Since Decision Robin
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I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

Church Entertainment Expression Growing
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I thought I had everything going for me. I wasn't listening to nobody. And my dad was like, 'Uh-uh, you can't make money from music.

Thought Had Everything Going
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In music, I wanted to make sure I was innovating.

In Music Wanted Make
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I need music. It's like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what's going on - bad games, press, whatever!

Bad Games Going Heartbeat
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I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight; it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Courage Embody Feel Fight
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One thing the music industry has taught me is to manage my expectations.
Expectations Industry Manage Me
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For people who love Tribe, I'm the defector. They say, 'You should get back with Ali to do the beats.' But a lot of people don't realize I did all the music in Tribe. In the first three albums, I did all the beats!

Albums Ali Back Beats
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My first gig was at Radio City Music Hall when I was 13.

City First Gig Hall
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Classical music requires an immense amount of concentration, and I don't know if I would've been that committed to that particular life.

Amount Been Classical Classical Music
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I think the music comes first, then comes the fashion, and thus, the lifestyle. I believe it starts with music, and then the person delivering it delivers the lifestyle, the fashion. Madonna is a great example of that.

Believe Delivering Example Fashion
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I don't listen to my own music at home.

Home Listen Music Own
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At home, we don't listen to our music-we listen to other people's music. It keeps you attached to the show business world.

World Show Attached Business
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In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

Jeopardy Career Work Music
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I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.

About Being Country Country Music
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I love making music and all that, but at the end of the day I don't think that's what people are going to remember about a person.

About Day End End Of The Day
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Singing is just a feeling set to music.

Feeling Just Music Set
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To me, getting to do music and videos, you work on a character. Being onstage is acting; you get to be larger than life and larger than yourself.

Acting Being Character Get
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My inner rock chick has always been there. I grew up listening to a lot of rock music through my sisters, who were teenagers while I was young, so they had control of the radio.

Always Been Chick Control
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I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Charts Diverse Everybody Feel
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I grew up listening to everything. I have such a love for music, but I don't want to make the same album over and over again.

Again Album Everything Grew
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People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

Australians Entertainers Events Great
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.

Picture Beautiful Smilling Bright-eyed
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

People Good Music Homesick
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.

Think Great Dad Same
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There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

Times Standing Movie Hit
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I'm an example of someone who never made it to university. I did have this dream to be a musician. I felt that this dream had an expiration date.

Example Someone Made University
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I’m not good with expressing myself but I can try with my music

Good Expressing Music
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If music be the food of love, play on.

Food Love Music Play
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Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.
Diplomacy Military Might Music
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The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

Concord Fit Hath Himself
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Anyone who loves music can never be quite unhappy.
Loves Music Never Unhappy
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No one understands another's grief, no one understands another's joy... My music is the product of my talent and my misery. And that which I have written in my greatest distress is what the world seems to like best.

One Understand Grief Joy
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It sometimes seems to me as if I do not belong to this world at all. I deplore music that engenders in people not love but madness: which rouses them to scornful laughter instead of lifting their thoughts to God.

Sometimes Seems Belong World
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There is no such thing as happy music.

Thing Music Happy
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I don't understand why the press is so interested in speculating about my appearance, anyway. What does my face have to do with my music or my dancing?

About Anyway Appearance Dancing
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The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Bee Bee Gees Brilliant Great
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Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Combined File Film Film And TV
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I don't like being put in a box. I just make music, you know?

Being Box Just Know
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The thing is, I make music I like. So it's just weird if someone says they don't like it.
Just Like Make Music
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I don't have a therapist, so I use me as my own therapist when I'm making the music.

Making Me Music My Own
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I want to take Justin Bieber for a month and just lock him up in a cage where we sit and make music. He's one of the most successful people in the world, but his music could be so much tighter.

Cage Could He Him
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Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Silent Cannot Expresses Music
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When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Calling Favorite First Friend
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Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

Basically Been Grace Just
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The best part of making music, for me, is collaborating and working with new people and fresh sounds and all those things that gets people excited to continue in this business that we all love so much.

Best BestPart Business Collaborating
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I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.
Appreciating Born IWasBorn Incapable
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
After End Finish Long
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The Church knew what the psalmist knew: Music praises God. Music is well or better able to praise him than the building of the church and all its decoration; it is the Church's greatest ornament.

Able Better Building Church
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.

Am Book Drama Film
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