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For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.
Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.
Music is supposed to create an associate level, wherein I and you and you and I can associate without any misunderstanding.
Music is one of the few things I'm relatively good at, one of the things I understand a little better than everything else.
All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
I think the music is relevant and if people are into the music, they're going to be into it regardless of when it comes from.
I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.
It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.
Some people only work to recorded music because it's so reliable and exactly the same every time, which is exactly why I don't.
Bad music is often the result of an attempt by the untrained, something that takes for granted that you're very highly trained.
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
I never understood the need for a "live" audience. My music, because of its extreme quietude, would be happiest with a dead one.
Music is one of my big orgasmic meters. I need it, I love it. I'm so happy when people bring it up because I love it. I need it.
Music has that ability to be a magical thing, and I was like, maybe music is the vehicle that transports us to that other world.
Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them.
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that.
Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever.
Music is supposed to be an escape, It's supposed to be somewhere you can go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you wanna be.
Entertainment is about telling everybody that everything is alright but music is on the side of the upsetters and that's where I'm at.
Real music is what I consider to be uncorporatized music, the music that just happens. I feel like that's not a very well-known thing.
The history of music is nothing more than the history of art-music or classical music, the music that was commissioned by aristocrats.
Music is a handshake where I, as a songwriter, am only part of the equation. I love that, the fact that you can make the song your own.
I'm listening to a lot of John Mayer again. I stopped listening to emotional music because I was in a really emotional place in my life.
From the time I wake up until the time I go to bed, music is unfortunately on my mind, on my stereo, or I'm making it or talking about it.
If you took any of my radio shows and you took the music out of them, they wouldn't be remotely the same thing. Music is really important.
Music is not an exact science so depending on the time and the mode and the energy when we do it that will determine what happens with it.
We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.
It is one of those things that is universally connectable, people can connect to it from everywhere; music is like that universal language.
Music is my thing. It's my thing; it's what I love. It's what I do. It's football to me; it's Christmas to me; religion to me; poetry to me.
Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.
A lot of English traditional music is guesswork anyway, so it's very difficult for people to be vehemently opposed to experimenting with it.
It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
Pop music is the one genre that isn't a genre. If the kids like it, then that's what defines it as pop music. Pop music is just something new.
Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.
I'm sure the music is going to come out. I'm not sure if I'm going to put out 12"s or put the songs on my website. I just have to get them done.
I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.
One performer whose band played my music better than I could myself was Art Farmer. He recorded 'Sing Me Softly of the Blues' and 'Ad Infinitum'.
My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.
I don't really like approach music to become famous. I've actually consciously made the decision that I'm just going to do music because I love it.
Music is a gut thing. You're working in a medium which is more in touch with the primal than the modern. A gig is a ritual. There's a congregation.
Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.
Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.
What else is the power of melody but the power of feeling? Music is the language of feeling; melody is audible feeling - feeling communicating itself.
Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person.
Music is a beautiful thing to listen to. It is not a thing to preach to others about, it’s not a cause. It is what it is-and that’s a beautiful artform.
There's something to be said about all music being some translation of our languaging, our way of communicating. It's a language. This is a new language.
If you're listening to music, then the music is your friend; or if you're with a person, then that person can be your friend because you're communicating.
Music films are great, but they can never compete with a live performance. Live music is what it is. It's the whole point. You experience it in the moment.
I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.