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Music Quotes
"If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music."
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"Instrumental music can spread the international language."
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"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands."
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"Music. It's all creativity right here, right now."
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"Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science."
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"The iPod completely changed the way people approach music."
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"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think."
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"I'm really looking forward to it because it will give me the opportunity to do the whole other kind of approach to the music live that I haven't had a chance to do. and I think is important for me to do."
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"My secret? A desire to work, years of dedication and loving what you do; I can't live without music."
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"Music, I feel, must be emotional first and intellectual second."
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"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
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"I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist."
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"I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording."
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"I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know."
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"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it."
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"In memory everything seems to happen to music."
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"Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered."
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"Adam does most of the work when it comes to videos and he basically does the same as I do with the lyrics. The videos are his visual interpretations of our music."
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"It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of "culture.""
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"And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one."
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"I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around."
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"I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head."
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"Real folk music long ago went to Nashville and left no known survivors."
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"I got a couple on per album but my problem was that I wanted to sing the songs and not let Roger sing them."
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"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music."
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"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."
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