“Music is really something that makes people whole.”
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“I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it.”
“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.”
“Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?”
“Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.”
“A lot of music is mathematics. It's balance.”
“I think that a song, when it works, never mind a piece of long form music, even a song is something that speaks to itself but has a language all of its own, ideally.”
“I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.”
“I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap.”
“I just do what I do. I like to make music.”
“I want my music to do the explaining.”
“I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.”
“As a rule, my focus is on classical music, but I love jazz. I love everything, actually.”
“Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.”
“If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings.”
“In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music.”
“For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.”
“Country music is three chords and the truth.”
“In the course of transferring all my CDs to my iPod, I have found myself wandering the musical hallways of my past and reacquainting myself with music I haven't listened to in years.”
“Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.”
“Nature's music is never over her silences are pauses, not conclusions.”
“In essence, String Theory describes space and time, matter and energy, gravity and light, indeed all of God's creation... as music.”
“People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.”
“I haven't heard any music on the BBC World Service in a long time. Maybe I'm listening at the wrong times. But not one single piece of music.”