#music

Anyone who watches a lot of television, or listens to pop music, is familiar with a certain vision of America. If not exactly colorblind, this America is one in which different races easily interact, in which a white person might have an Asian boss, Hispanic stepson, or African-American frenemy. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#america #anyone #asian #boss #certain

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#any #anything #doing #drunk #full

Music is spiritual. The music business is not. ↗

— Van Morrison

#music #music business #spiritual

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. ↗

— Van Morrison

#charles #first #imagination #live #music

I didn't really see the British punk movement, if that's what it was, as wildly original, because I had been listening so intently to all the New York music since 1973, really. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#been #british #had #i #intently

Right now I just finished writing the music for a Rugrats feature film and the third week of September I go to London, and the Orchestra is going to perform the score. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#feature film #film #finished #go #going

You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form. ↗

— Bob Mould

#electronic #electronic music #few #form #i

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music. ↗

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

#causing #charm #disgust #ear #even

Anyway, it fell through because they ran out of money. That was when I learned not to waste your time getting your hopes up or to believe something until it actually happens. We broke up for various reasons, but it was a good band. Jim and Don produced some magical music. ↗

— Jamie Muir

#anyway #band #because #believe #broke

I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw. ↗

— Edvard Munch

#i #music #painted #picture #rhythm