Simple Music Quotes

Hawaiian music is beautiful and simple.

What I don't like is taking it to extremes and making all these intellectualizations about what basically is simple music. It's simple stream-of-consciousness stuff in my songs. What I'm trying to get across is misinterpreted.

I've come to realize ways of making music without being excessive.

What resonates with me now is the acoustic guitar and piano.

I don't compose songs to showcase my proficiency in music or to please hard-core music lovers. The basic criterion is that my work should reach all sections of music lovers.

I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity.

My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

When I was growing up, the blues did seem too simple to me. I was just a muso.

If your playing basic music, its just rock.

We decided to start our own group because we were bored with everything we heard... Everything was 10th-generation Led Zeppelin... Overproduced, or just junk. We missed music like it used to be.

Technology was something I avoided when I started out - I didn't even have electric guitars. Only played acoustic.

That's always been the process of our music, in a sense, keeping it simple, not being so heavy that you are beating people over the head, it's just weighted down and it's like, "oohhh I can't relate." People are able to relate because we talked about things that everyone has experienced, it doesn't matter your race or genre. Music was your mainstay. There was something in our element of music that connected.

The mountain music... is compelling music in its own right, harking back to a time when music was a part of everyday life and not something performed by celebrities.

It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.

'The Conversation' was a movie I saw probably for the first time in the early 2000s. I immediately loved the piano and just how simple it is.

I have to say, I have an affinity for Bossanova. It's very warm-sounding to me - lush and simple. I like that.

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.

Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.

The Delmore Brothers is hit music - very, very popular - and it still retains that rural flavor and simplicity. I always think of it as family music, really, because families sang it.

I'm always just looking to get back to the joy of playing music, and keeping it simple, as much as I can.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

When I learned to play music, I was listening to blues music. And all the blues music I liked was super simple and stripped down. And then all the hip hop I liked was super simple and stripped down and we always heard that connection.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.