Music Quotes - page 96

I used to hate, with a capitol H, making videos. It was nothing but a chore. It was something you had to do to have your music accepted in the visual medium. (Sheena Easton)

I got country music in me.

Shemar Moore

As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

Simon Beaufoy

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Simon Le Bon

Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music.

Skitch Henderson

There's a lot of crappy music that people like, you know, all over the world, and Norway is definitely not an exception.

Sondre Lerche

I think the problem starts with the general appreciation of the music in the larger society.

Sonny Rollins

I am a person who thinks about the music first in trying to achieve something musically valid.

Sonny Rollins

I have always been a person who is concerned with the dignity of jazz music and the way jazz musicians have been treated and are treated, and the fact that the music has not been given the kind of due that it deserves.

Sonny Rollins

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

Sonny Rollins

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture. (Sonny Terry)

If peace . . . only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars.

Sophie Kerr

I listen to a lot of old music, like Joni Mitchell and David Bowie.

Sophie McShera

As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me.

Stacie Orrico

Whenever you play dance music, it serves a function. It becomes a utility; you have to worry about the tempos and what you're going to play for people. But when you're playing for listening, you're free.

Stan Kenton

After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure.

Stanley Clarke

I actually think that bass is probably the instrument that has evolved in a quantum leap compared to other instruments. It's the instrument that's evolved the most, especially with how it's perceived. And even how it's played, and how it's viewed from a point of view of commerce, like with the music industry.

Stanley Clarke

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Stanley Crouch

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

Sam Abell

Cornwall has lots of folk and Celtic music and has that kind of surfer vibe as well. That was my kind of upbringing.

Sam Palladio

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music. (Sam Palladio)

My music is my way to rearrange the world according to my own hopes.

Stephan Jenkins

That's what drew me to rock music in the first place - that sense of remaking the world on your own terms.

Stephan Jenkins

A lot of people say I wouldn't have a down day, but you look at the music and there's real melancholy.

Stephan Jenkins

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

Stephen Sprouse

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