#music

Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too. ↗

— Vaughn Monroe

#appeals #broadcast #cake #dances #down

The end of all good music is to affect the soul. ↗

— Claudio Monteverdi

#end #good #good music #music #soul

I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful. ↗

— Ronnie Montrose

#also #am #aware #business #commercially

I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that. ↗

— Natalie Merchant

#celebrity status #deliberately #i #i think #imagine

I wasn't straining at the bit to become a movie star any more than I had plotted to get out of vaudeville and into Broadway musicals. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#become #bit #broadway #broadway musicals #get

I did a theatrical musical, Annie Warbucks, when I was 11. We did a tour and we stopped by Los Angeles. ↗

— Christina Milian

#annie #did #i #los #los angeles

To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. ↗

— Joni Mitchell

#enjoy #music #need #you

What I am looking for... is an immobile movement, something which would be the equivalent of what is called the eloquence of silence, or what St. John of the Cross, I think it was, described with the term 'mute music'. ↗

— Joan Miro

#called #cross #described #eloquence #equivalent

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. ↗

— Woflgang Amadeus Mozart

#composition #music #beauty

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other? ↗

— Rita Moreno

#each #last #last time #musical #other