Musical Representation Quotes

Orchestras are like people. They're the sonic embodiment of their community.

Fashion and music are the same, because music express its period too.

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

At times, yes, I have been typecast. But I love having a regional identity in my songs. I want to deliver music that reflects the culture of our soil.

I felt I never needed to fight for a more prominent songwriting and increased vocal role with the Cars.

I think the music reflects the state that the society is in. It doesn't suggest the state. I think the poets and musicians and artists are of the age - not only do they lead the age on, but they also reflect that age. [...] Like The Beatles. We came out of Liverpool and we reflected our background and we reflected our thoughts in what we sang, and that's all people are doing.

Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation.

The Chronic represented everything that I hated about hip-hop as a fan, but then later represented everything that I stood for as a musician and engineer.

I think Katy B encapsulates young London in a way I never could. She reps London harder than anyone song-wise since Lily Allen.

We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

Although cover notes for classical music albums tend to say that the trill of flutes suggests mountain streams and so on, I don't think anybody listens to music with the expectation that they're going to be presented with a sort of landscape painting.

Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature.

I kind of always wanted my own music to just sound like, like me, I suppose, like if I was music it would be the music I make, I think.

My guitar playing touches so many different areas of the form, but the important thing is what it represents across the form.

Even the greatest musicians, they only represent themselves. You represent who you are and what your experiences are and what you have in your heart, and it's the same for me. I represent who I am and what I've been through and what I'm bringing to the music.

The first 12 bars of 'Pre-Occupied' explains my entire career.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.

What music is better able to do than language is to represent the complexity of human emotional states.

We are Korean, so obviously they call our music K-pop. But we never thought of our music as K-pop. Our music is just our music.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

I have to choose songs that represent my personality.

Piano symbolizes interiority.

I want to be able to depict in music a glass of beer so accurately that every listener can tell whether it is a Pilsner or a Kulmbacher.

I think that to capture food in music, you really are capturing an emotional response to food.