#music

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. ↗

— Lou Reed

#any #better #cds #chance #first

Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#conscience #dance #disco #go #just

I have always thought music as a way out of the ordinary mundane obligations of life. ↗

— Martha Reeves

#i #life #mundane #music #obligations

I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other. ↗

— Steve Reich

#i #interesting #letting #lining #loops

In serial music, the series itself is seldom audible... What I'm interested in is a compositional process and a sounding music that are one in the same thing. ↗

— Steve Reich

#compositional #i #interested #itself #music

The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified. ↗

— Jeremy Renner

#bands #business #cameras #difficult #expression

I think it's just an awkward time right now to be a musician. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#i #i think #just #musician #now

I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#because #claimed #germany #i #identity

Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz. ↗

— Marc Ribot

#chops #different #function #great #great achievements

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score. ↗

— Ralph Richardson

#audience #bars #because #cannot #changing