Indian Music Quotes

It is said, that South Indian Music, as known today, flourished in Deogiri the capital city of the Yadavas in the middle ages, and that after the invasion and plunder of the city by the Muslims, the entire cultural life of the city took shelter in the Carnatic Empire of Vijayanagar under the reign of Krishnadevaraya. Thereafter, the music ~ Gaurav Mishra

I don't listen to Bollywood music much. But yes, I listen to Indian music quite often, and other non- film music. ~ Kailash Kher

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. ~ Chris Cornell

The world by day is like European music; a flowing concourse of vast harmony, composed of concord and discord and many disconnected fragments. And the night world is our Indian music; one pure, deep and tender raga. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Though music transcends language, culture and time, and though notes are the same, Indian music is unique because it is evolved, sophisticated and melodies are defined. ~ Dayananda Saraswati

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground. ~ John McLaughlin

My brother had a house in Paris. To it came many Western classical musicians. These musicians all made the same point: 'Indian music,' they said, 'is beautiful when we hear it with the dancers. On its own, it is repetitious and monotonous.' ~ Ravi Shankar

Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work. ~ A.R. Rahman

Our music draws the listener away, beyond the limits of everyday human joys and sorrows, and takes us to that lonely region of renunciation which lies to the root of the universe, while European music leads us to a variegated dance through the endless rise and fall of human grief and joy. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music. ~ Henry Flynt

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music. ~ John Lennon

Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music. ~ Kenny G

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy. ~ Gary Wright

Music is monophonic in the Eastern world, especially if we're talking about Indian music, Persian music. What we have in classical and Western world is harmony. So I think it's a great idea to be able to bring the best of two together and create something new. ~ Hafez Nazeri

The Indian music market is very film-oriented, and any other creative music venture doesn't receive enough support. I'd rather do singles and put them on my website. ~ Shreya Ghoshal

I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him. ~ Terry Riley

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs. ~ Barry Gibb

We fight our way through the massed and leveled collective safe taste of the Top 40, just looking for a little something we can call our own. But when we find it and jam the radio to hear it again it isn't just ours
it is a link to thousands of others who are sharing it with us. As a matter of a single song this might mean very little; as culture, as a way of life, you can't beat it. ~ Greil Marcus

My taste changes radically all the time, and I listen to whatever feels good. Another thing is that I'm in the studio so much of the time, and I listen to so much loud, aggressive music for work, that for pleasure, I'll listen to something else. ~ Rick Rubin

I find a difference between what gets called world music - a fusion of western music and music from different cultures in more of a modernized version - and Explorer Series stuff, which is completely undiluted indigenous folk music. That's a lot more powerful than a lot of the super-processed stuff that comes out now. ~ Glenn Kotche

Alice thought, No. It wasn't the War and the disgruntled veterans; it wasn't the droves and droves of colored people flocking to paychecks and streets full of themselves. It was the music. The dirty, get-on-down music the women sang and the men played and both danced to, close and shamelesss or apart and wild ... It made you do unwise disorderly things. Just hearing it was like violating the law. ~ Toni Morrison

I have fans, and I have family that love me, and I have my music, and I have my breath going in and out. ~ R. Kelly

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound. ~ Paloma Faith

I'm twenty-nine, happily single and getting it on a regular basis' I said, enjoying the way their thin lips hung open in an impressive O.
'Well I've never,' Jane gasped.
'Clearly. You should try it some time. I understand Mr Smith is so vision impaired you might have a shot there.'
Their appalled shrieks were music to my ears and I quickly made my escape. ~ Robyn Peterman

Hope is the music of the whole Bible, the heartbeat, the pulse and the atmosphere of the whole Bible. ~ Aiden Wilson Tozer

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds. ~ John Philip Sousa

If Music is a Place
then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple. ~ Vera Nazarian

My flight arrives at eight in the morning," he mentioned casually. "Any chance you can come and get me?"
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"Pick you up from the airport? That seems hardcore, Ty. Normally, I'm married to a guy for at least a couple weeks before I take that big a step. ~ Rachel Harris

Breakfast is the only meal of the day that I tend to view with the same kind of traditionalized reverence that most people associate with Lunch and Dinner. I like to eat breakfast alone, and almost never before noon; anybody with a terminally jangled lifestyle needs at least one psychic anchor every twenty-four hours, and mine is breakfast. In Hong Kong, Dallas or at home - and regardless of whether or not I have been to bed - breakfast is a personal ritual that can only be properly observed alone, and in a spirit of genuine excess. The food factor should always be massive: four Bloody Marys, two grapefruits, a pot of coffee, Rangoon crepes, a half-pound of either sausage, bacon, or corned beef hash with diced chiles, a Spanish omelette or eggs Benedict, a quart of milk, a chopped lemon for random seasoning, and something like a slice of Key lime pie, two margaritas, and six lines of the best cocaine for dessert… Right, and there should also be two or three newspapers, all mail and messages, a telephone, a notebook for planning the next twenty-four hours and at least one source of good music… All of which should be dealt with outside, in the warmth of a hot sun, and preferably stone naked. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music. ~ Randy Bachman

In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music. ~ John Legend

What's the point of getting up in the morning unless you're gonna have an adventure? As the moments of our life are ticking away you have to be aware that it needs to be an adventure ~ Hans Zimmer

I am tired with hyphenated Americans! We are not Indian-Americans, or African-Americans. ~ Bobby Jindal

Immune to the blandishments of religions, countries, families, and whatever else that - with a smattering of emotive images and strains of maudlin music - can move the average citizen to tears or violence, the pessimist is invisible in both history books and the media. Without belief in gods or ghosts, unmotivated by a comprehensive delusion, he could never plant a bomb, plan a revolution, or shed blood for a cause. Pessimists are indeed lackadaisical as partisans in the human drama. ~ Thomas Ligotti

This was an era where I was going out every night seeing Sparks, Berlin, Duran Duran, and Split Enz. Amazing acts doing really weird stuff, and I was very open to music and letting it transform me. ~ Margaret Cho

Music Should Be Your Escape ~ Missy Elliott

Music isn't about music, it's about life. ~ Herbie Hancock

I like art, and by art I mean music, poetry, sex, paintings, the human body, literature… All of this is art to me. ~ Hunter Reveur

I have spoken to many, many Indian chiefs who say they have no objection whatsoever to the nickname. ~ Jack Kent Cooke

Sometimes, sometimes you find a riff that fits so comfortably, you wish it would go on forever. ~ Fox Benwell

Violence existed before our music was even suggested. ~ Big Pun

I was 17, still in school, and my manager saw me in school, and then we hooked up, and after that, I went straight into making music. ~ Erik Hassle

If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. ~ Louis Armstrong

Noise is any pattern we don't understand. [ ... ] If we perceive something as noise, it's most likely a failure of ourselves, not a failure of the universe. ~ Raph Koster

Listening to music that I hate calms me down. ~ Joey Comeau

I want to do music the rest of my life. ~ Scotty McCreery

The forest of Tantrevalles shades a deep dank soil; somewhere under this mold lies the carcass of a snake which in better times used the name Visbhume; he no longer tippety-taps and moves and jerks to the rhythms of a propulsive inner music; and sometimes one wonders in cases like this: here is the dead thing; where has the music gone? ~ Jack Vance

I suppose because I have a good ear, I could pick out harmonies and learn by ear. I still think that you have to have an ear for music to really be able to feel and understand what you're playing. You can learn by watching and listening to other people. ~ Mick Taylor

Harmonious words render ordinary ideas acceptable; less ordinary, pleasant; novel and ingenious ones, delightful. As pictures and statues, and living beauty, too, show better by music-light, so is poetry irradiated, vivified, glorified', and raised into immortal life by harmony. ~ Walter Savage Landor