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Shaun White on music
Author: Shaun White“Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.” -Shaun White
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Ashley Tisdale on music
Author: Ashley Tisdale“I’ve loved Michael Jackson, his music, his music videos.” -Ashley Tisdale
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Francis Ford Coppola on music
Author: Francis Ford Coppola“We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn’t speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food.” -Francis Ford Coppola
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Neko Case on music
Author: Neko Case“I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn’t tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.” -Neko Case
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Patti Smith on music
Author: Patti Smith“I’m not saying I wasn’t flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business.” -Patti Smith
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John Hughes on music
Author: John Hughes“I always preferred to hang out with the outcasts, ’cause they were cooler they had better taste in music, for one thing, I guess because they had more time to develop one with the lack of social interaction they had!” -John Hughes
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Felix Mendelssohn on music
Author: Felix Mendelssohn“People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.” -Felix Mendelssohn
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R. Kelly on music
Author: R. Kelly“I’ve programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that’s the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come – you know, the stories and things like that.” -R. Kelly
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Ray Charles on music
Author: Ray Charles“Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.” -Ray Charles
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Ice T on music
Author: Ice T“I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it’s about.” -Ice T
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Jam Master Jay on music
Author: Jam Master Jay“I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers.” -Jam Master Jay
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Rod Stewart on music
Author: Rod Stewart“I have a very lively and colourful show. It’s two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.” -Rod Stewart
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Kristin Hersh on music
Author: Kristin Hersh“Before you can make good music, you just have to shut up. Then the music can say what it has to say.” -Kristin Hersh
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Sun Ra on music
Author: Sun Ra“But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn’t be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars music’s got these bars and measures you know.” -Sun Ra
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John Philip Sousa on music
Author: John Philip Sousa“From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.” -John Philip Sousa
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Harry Connick, Jr. on music
Author: Harry Connick, Jr.“I practice and work hard at my music, but I’m not saving lives here.” -Harry Connick, Jr.
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Demi Lovato on music
Author: Demi Lovato“Music is what I love to do it’s in my veins.” -Demi Lovato
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Carlos Santana on music
Author: Carlos Santana“I realised a long time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili, any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.” -Carlos Santana
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Toru Takemitsu on music
Author: Toru Takemitsu“I always want to write erotic music… Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense – about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe… about life.” -Toru Takemitsu
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Scott Stapp on music
Author: Scott Stapp“The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn’t really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn’t want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn’t right.” -Scott Stapp
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Hans Hofmann on music
Author: Hans Hofmann“Color is a plastic means of creating intervals… color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.” -Hans Hofmann
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Aulis Sallinen on music
Author: Aulis Sallinen“If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues.” -Aulis Sallinen
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Rebecca West on music
Author: Rebecca West“Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.” -Rebecca West
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Nat King Cole on music
Author: Nat King Cole“Music is emotional, and you may catch a musician in a very unemotional mood or you may not be in the same frame of mind as the musician. So a critic will often say a musician is slipping.” -Nat King Cole