I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element. Use this quote
Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else. Use this quote
Music really is our daily medicine. Use this quote
But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing. Use this quote
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created. Use this quote
For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it. Use this quote
There's been a shift: Country music is popular music now. Every other genre wants to come over to our land. Use this quote
People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular. Use this quote
I don't need my phone to play me music. I need it to be a phone and an e-mail thing. Use this quote
A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence. Use this quote
Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark. Use this quote
I travel the garden of music, thru inspiration. It's a large, very large garden, seen? Use this quote
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that. Use this quote
I like so many different kinds of music just because all I did was listen to the radio as a kid. Use this quote
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. Use this quote
There's no religion but sex and music. Use this quote
The world's a better place since I chose music. Use this quote
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things. Use this quote
Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like. Use this quote
In a weird kind of way, music has afforded me an idealism and perfectionism that I could never attain as me. Use this quote
