Musical Culture Quotes

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

I can't imagine a world without music.

Music always lived with me, like a family tradition.

I think touring in America lives up to the myth, in all ways of what touring is. So many pretty cities, and it's pretty easy, compared to touring other places. I'm fascinated by America. Great crowds - people are very musical. I've been getting better throughout the tour in America, relating to people. At the start I was a bit stiff, and I'm starting to relax.

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

In the olden days, everybody sang. You were expected to sing as well as talk. It was a mark of the cultured man to sing.

I get a wave of pride in America when I look back at what we've accomplished in the field of music.

Imagine if you grew up in a place where your lineage was there for a hundred years, and part of the culture was to play music 50 percent of the time. You'd probably have a lot of musicians in your family too.

England is a country of pianos, they are everywhere.

I think country music is obviously a great form of music. I think it's cool and has mass appeal.

Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

I was raised around music.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

I think the way country music is set up, we all came from a family background.

My first engagement with any art was music.

... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.

I mean, I grew up in a very musical family.

The climate suits me, and London has the greatest serious music that you can hear any day of the week in the world - you think it's going to be Vienna or Paris or somewhere, but if you go to Vienna or Paris and say, 'Let's hear some good music', there isn't any.

Musicians from the beginning of time have been there to express the mood and the musical feelings in the air for whatever's going on in that particular culture. It's the greatest joy as a musician to be able to translate that, be part of something and watch the scenery around you.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

Puerto Rico's relationship with music is everything. It's an island full of talent and if you grow up there, you grow up living and breathing music.

I didn't really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn't really the center for blues.

I basically love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it's Indian or it's Western.

Whatever you are making, whether it's a song, an album, a painting, a film, you're connecting with a tradition, and I do feel connected to New York music.

I come from a home that had a lot of music played in general.