Caribbean Music Quotes

Yuh cyah vex when soca playin ~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

There is a cool purple unicorn in the ring and she smells like popcorn and peeps! ~ SurLeFur

Musically, New York is a big influence on me. Walk down the street for five minutes and you'll hear homeless punk rockers, people playing Caribbean music and reggae, sacred Islamic music and Latino music, so many different types of music. ~ Moby

You're that lady," Leo said. "The one who was named after Caribbean music."
Her eyes glinted murderously. "Caribbean music."
"Yeah. Reggae?" Leo shook his head. "Merengue? Hold on, I'll get it."
He snapped his fingers. "Calypso! ~ Rick Riordan

Plastic metaphors and carbon copy similes that aren't going to do anything for anybody and it doesn't showcase creativity; it showcases the fact that the soul of the music has been compromised to control the industry. ~ Immortal Technique

I just make whatever music I want. It's my obsession, and it's very fulfilling. ~ Ansel Elgort

I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen. ~ Enya

Apart from two periods of intense study, of music between the ages of 12 and 14 and of mathematics between the ages of 14 and 16, I coasted, daydreaming, through most of my school years. ~ James Black

Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever. ~ Michael Stipe

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him. ~ Romain Rolland

Mom Cecilia

Singing voices, drums and cymbals play!
Music patroness you always are,
But mom for me,
Though strangely far you dwell now.

And ever smile,
And ever talk.
All moms are Cecilias,
And you are mine. ~ J.M.K. Walkow

I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King ... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King. ~ Angus Young

I don't do 'black music,' I don't do 'white music' ... I make fight music, for high school kids. ~ Eminem

Port Talbot is a steel town, where everything is covered with gray iron ore dust. Even the beach is completely littered with dust, it's just black. The sun was setting, and it was quite beautiful. The contrast was extraordinary, I had this image of a guy sitting there on this dingy beach with a portable radio, tuning in these strange Latin escapist songs like 'Brazil.' The music transported him somehow and made his world less gray. ~ Terry Gilliam

Painting, like music, has nothing to do with the reproduction of nature, nor interpretation of intellectual meanings. Whoever is able to feel the beauty of colors and forms has understood nonobjective painting. ~ Hilla Von Rebay

Like with acting, if you're charming or just good-looking, you might be able to get your foot in the door. But a lot of time with music, you actually have to kinda be able to sing. ~ Robin Thicke

I've always had to deal with being biracial, even in music. When I came on the scene, I'd go to these record labels, and they'd say things like, "Lenny Kravitz. That's a weird name." I'm brown-skinned and I've got these dreadlocks and I've got this Jewish last name. ~ Lenny Kravitz

My music is just as much me as it is everybody else. ~ Torae

I'm not the mixtape guy who's gonna put out a new one every month. I'm gonna allow my albums to marinate and resonate and whatever type of 'ates' they can do. I'm gonna let my music grow on them. ~ DMX

There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres. ~ Jimmy Page

The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is. ~ Beck

Music rules a lot of my life - I was bitten by the bug young. ~ Imelda May

Classical music's ability to translate emotional themes is fantastic. ~ Alan Price

When I was in N.Y. bartending, I was in a billion music videos. I was in Madonna, George Michael, Salt-n-Pepa - it goes on and on. ~ Pauley Perrette

I started feeling it was wrong to withhold my music for money - as strange as that might sound! ~ Jane Siberry

This is a present from a small, distant world, a token of our sounds, our science, our images, our music, our thoughts and our feelings. We are attempting to survive our time so we may live into yours. ~ Jimmy Carter

One of my dreams is to expand and make sure African music and Afro Beats music is really on the map. I would like to be a contribution to that success. ~ Ice Prince

She was known for her volcanic passion for Romantic music that erupted regularly during her lessons, then cooled and settled in between. ~ Tori De Clare

It's wonderful. It's amazing. I mean we have such a great music scene and art scene and there's just a great group of young people, you know, temping their way through their 20's doing other amazing things. And I've been in ... I spent like 10 years working here without ever having been shooting in Toronto. And it's so frustrating because it's a great city. And I remember seeing Montreal actually used as Montreal in that Ed Norton-Robert DeNiro ... ~ Alison Pill

Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument ... actually, you are singing inside. ~ Ali Akbar Khan

I'm just saying stupid, funny things when I'm hanging out on the TV show. When I'm making music I'm in a completely different zone. ~ Chanel West Coast

I'm trying to use people like Meredith Monk and Philip Glass and Terry Riley as the backing tracks for new pop songs. It's really hard trying to use the format and write a pop song on top of avant-garde music, so we'll see. It could be cool, or it could totally flop. ~ Autre Ne Veut

I used to listen to music from the frosting down. As a word nerd, lyrics are really important to me, and then the melody. Playing in the Rock*A*Teens was the first time I ever heard music from the bottom up. I was hearing songs I'd heard a million times on oldies radio, and I'd be like, "Wow, listen to what the bass is doing!" When I was first singing in bands, I'd just get out there with my machete, wildly whacking away at the foliage. But you learn how to listen. When I feel I'm doing it right, it's 90% listening and 10% output. It's not "look what I can do!" ~ Kelly Hogan

Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world. ~ Damon Albarn

I care about what people think of my heart, my music, my passion. ~ Jessica Simpson

At the age of six, Mahler accepted paid commissions as a composer, something he was never to do in later life, his mother having promised him two kreuzers on condition that he did not make any ink blots on the expensive music manuscript paper. ~ Jens Malte Fischer

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground. ~ Jamie Cullum

I love books, food, music, sleep, people who work, heated arguments, the United States of America, and my wife and children. I dislike politicians, preachers, genteel persons, people who do not work or are on vacation, closed minds, movies, loud noises, and oiliness. ~ Rex Stout

I like "Julie Gold's song "From a Distance". Her song reminds me of the world as seen through an observer's eye. Seen from a distance, we are people in the same band playing music for everyone. We are artists who play the most beautiful instruments in the world - life. ~ Ilchi Lee