Music Organization Quotes

I've been writing and collecting songs on the ukulele for at least 10 years, so it was time to clear them out of the apartment building and make room for some new occupants.I need to make room for the bassoon record.

It's funny: when I was a kid, my mom would reorganize the record collection all the time. She'd have classical, she'd have Celtic, she'd have rock and roll, and then she'd have female singers. And I don't like it that female singers are their own genre.

One of those things that I find hard to dispose of is my attitude to album sequencing, the layout of the pieces.

This is how much of a music geek I am: if I have a day with nothing to do, one of my favourite things is to just sit at my computer and make playlists of pretty much anything.

Either I'm really into the organizing, or I'm really into the music. As I've been going, I've been able to figure out ways to even it out a little more.

I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

When I'm driving I should make more of an effort with my iPod, but I'm too lazy to organise a playlist.

But you know, I really like to present the songs on an album as a story, as something thematic, rather than something you'd put on a random shuffle.

One of the important things when you're making a record or doing a performance is the sequence of the songs. It really matters a lot because you want your project, your show, or your albums to sort of have a life.

I've never been on a board, but I just went on the board for Jazz at Lincoln Center. I'm very happy about that.

I have a weekly playlist on Spotify called Mixtape Mondays. So every Sunday night, I sit around listening to tunes to place. It's becoming my favorite part of the week.

I don't really do playlists. I don't know how to make a playlist, honestly.

I generally make a sort of playlist for my iPod for whatever project I'm doing.

And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs.

If you buy a CD and want to put your favorite songs on one CD, you should be able to do that.

I tried to download a jazz album this week and ended up getting some tracks four times, some once, some three times; in total I ended up with 50 tracks. I don't know how I did it.

You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible.

It'd be great to have more categories in the rock and metal category - but I don't want that job, picking where everybody is supposed to go.

I have about 25,000 songs on my computer and play them mostly on shuffle, which means that the songs I've played the most are the songs that have been on my computer the longest.

I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.

I make playlists on my iPod like nobody's business!