Even in music concerts in Mumbai and different parts of the world, seats are reserved for sponsors.
— Zubin Mehta
I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.
I believe in music.
Modern recording has made it so that people can spend forever taking shortcuts and making everything uniform, but that strips music of what makes it exciting.
— Zooey Deschanel
I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.
I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.
I think I'm making music that's pretty universal.
— Zola Jesus
I'm a total hip-hop geek. That's my favorite kind of music to listen to while getting ready.
— Zoey Deutch
As a woman, you spend so much time either cooking or getting ready to go somewhere. I like to have music when I'm doing either of these things.
— Zoe Saldana
When I have trouble sleeping, I'll read, watch old episodes of 'Sex and the City,' or dance around my house. Music helps me wind down.
— Zoe Kravitz
The '60s is one of my favourite eras in general. I love '60s music, and I've always wanted to do a period film.
Sometimes my mistakes turn into interesting music because I do things that aren't supposed to be done.
— Ziggy Marley
Reggae has a philosophy, you know? It's not just entertainment. There's an idea behind it, a way of life behind the music, which is a positive way of life, which is a progressive way of life for better people.
Music is a unifying force.
I want the people who listen to my music to feel the feeling that I feel, to cry the cry that I cry - justice. I want them to feel in their hearts the need for justice.
Growing up, music was an important part of my childhood. I see it being just as important in my children and all children's growth and development, and in a parent's connection with their children.
In Bombay, we have a fine concert hall. I think it is high time we built venues in Delhi and Calcutta, not only for western music, but also Indian music. It doesn't matter which party is in power; don't you think the capital of India should have a concert hall?
Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
One thing I love about Christmas music is that it has a tradition of warmth.
I'm wary about this thing about being in the generation of social networking where people are like, 'I am my musical taste.' I am not just a collection of music. Or a collection of movies. I think that's a thing that people romanticize: 'Oh my God, she likes this band so she is a dream.'
I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin.
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
— Zoltan Kodaly
My music started as a way to break through weaknesses - like anxiety, which was completely taking over my whole life, where I could barely function.
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
— Zoe Wanamaker
I identified with white culture, and I wanted to fit in. I didn't identify with black culture. Like, I didn't like Tyler Perry movies, and I wasn't into hip-hop music. I liked Neil Young.
I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
Historically, art and music and writing and film have been one of the only tools that is effective against tyranny.
— Zoe Kazan
My father's music gives hope to people and also inspires them to break the bonds of injustice and to be positive in life. I've seen that everywhere I go, especially in poor countries and poor neighborhoods.
My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.
I'm inspired to do music. I really can't stop unless I stop being inspired.
Reggae music is not an easy music to like when it comes to the power in society. 'Cause it talks about changing society. You won't find it readily accepted.
I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
Citizens of India, Pakistan, and Kashmir need to come together and make music.
Rock music is predictable, unless there's great talent involved.
I just like music that sounds like music. Not like machines and computers and things that you design to make things sound slick and perfect.
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something personal to me. When I write a song, that's my taste in music - my taste in chord progressions and melodies.
I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
And my music is always such a release of what I feel inside, an impulse.
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to bed.
I stream this radio station, Radio Nova, that's based in Paris. They curate a beautiful set that's really all over the place - they'll play blues or some West African music, then A Tribe Called Quest, then funk from Ethiopia, then James Brown, and then the Beatles. It's an amazing mix.
I like to make music because it's fun to do and it makes me feel good, but I have no desire to be a huge pop singer or anything like that. I just like to make it.
Music was important. Football was the easy part.
— Zinedine Zidane
My father speaks for himself, through his music.
Even if I wasn't in music, even if my father was a carpenter, some guy in Jamaica would go 'You're just like Bob. You're just like your father.' That happens in Jamaica all the time.
The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
