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You program music with an image and then people are desensitized. -- Julie Taymor
I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy. -- Usher
Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power. -- Marcel Marceau
You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along. -- Edie Brickell
I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic. -- Lana Del Rey
I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be. -- Chris Cornell
I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that you'll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion. -- Esperanza Spalding
Not to speak disparagingly of Justin Bieber or Rihanna, but they're not so hands-on with their image or their sound. They don't write the music. They have people doing things for them. -- Lady Starlight
I think the world is very much embracing this whole concept of musicians going out and playing their instruments and playing music for music as opposed to music that has something to do with some form of image or imagery. -- Les Claypool
Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. -- Neil Young
Everyone in Tool is interested in how we present our music. We write a group of songs that have a vibe, energy and feeling, and then we try to pick an image to capture that and communicate a feeling. We want something that adds to the connection with the audience. -- Adam Jones
I'm starting to wonder if pop culture is in its dying days, because everyone is able to customize their own lives with the images they want to see and the words they want to read and the music they listen to. You don't have the broader trends like you used to. -- Douglas Coupland
Videos come definitely after the music has been created, but I have always felt, and especially today, that videos are vital in the album process. I think that we live in a very visual era, and if you make a mistake with a video, those images will accompany the song forever. -- Shakira
I've listened to music all my life. I've always felt that music tells more stories sometimes than films, with more possibilities. Every time you listen to them, songs bring different images and moods - depending on where you are in your life, you can listen to a song, and it means something different. -- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and then later I sit down with visual people and we chat about what we want to do. I don't look at myself as a visual artist. I make music. -- Bjork
Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images. -- Roger Ebert

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