And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite. Miriam Makeba on music
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. Maurice Sendak on music
It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. Miriam Makeba on music
There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. Maurice Sendak on music
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. Philip Seymour Hoffman on music
I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him. Joaquin Phoenix on music
But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of. Gabriel Marcel on music
It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry. Martina McBride on music
If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture. Quincy Jones on music
My friends are mostly familiar with music that plays on the mainstream radio. Jessica Sanchez on music
Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising. Barbara Januszkiewicz on music
I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. Saul Williams on music
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 on music
Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West on music
If music leaves any impression at all, it does so without regard to stylistic issues. Aulis Sallinen on music
Country music has always sort of been country music. Miranda Lambert on music
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 on music
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 on music
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 on music
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 on music