Music Association Quotes

The thing is, I've gotten massages to Enya. I like Enya. If you ate fantastic steaks to Celine Dion, you'd like Celine Dion.

I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.

Samba rhythm is a great one to sing on, but it's also got some other suggestions in it, an undercurrent of being primitive - because it is a primitive African, South American, Afro-whatever-you-call-that rhythm. So to white people, it has a very sinister thing about it.

The movie that's had the most effect on me is Jaws. To this day when I'm in the ocean, I'm hearing that music.

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen in our lives, and there's music that's unique to that movie.

I always related my favorite music to the movies.

In the West we are constantly hit with music of Middle Eastern descent signifying terror, intrigue or sorrow.

In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish.

Any time I hear certain songs I put in a movie, I have to not listen to them anymore because I associate them with that movie. They take on that association rather than the association I had when I first heard them. So it's kinda bittersweet to put a song in a movie, honestly.

I would love to be erased from our association with Pearl Jam or the Nymphs and other first time offenders.

I have been long associated with British music. I have favoured it as my alternate music next to American.

Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father.

I feel like soundtrack music is almost like seeing the movie again, but with my ears.

On my mental iPod, I always have Stravinsky and Ravel.

Most of the time, I can't listen to the song after the video's done. Sometimes I'll hear a song that I've worked on at a restaurant or on the radio, and I'll have this visceral physical reaction.

'Psycho' is probably the best known example of a horror film whose exclusive sound was strings, and since then, it's been hard to avoid that. The minute you have strings as your primary voice, the comparisons are always made.

Music actually inspires me a lot. I listen to a lot of music, and often I find that if I can associate mentally a song or a piece of music with a particular character or scene, it helps me get back into the head of that character.