Music Quotes

"I listen to gospel music"

"One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another link in this chain"

Graham Nash, Musician

"We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing"

Graham Nash, Musician

"I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I"

Graham Nash, Musician

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Every music - except dance music, which is for dancing, I suppose - is for the spirit of the human being, and not for the body"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"It's like a dream to come to Spain and stay for a couple of years and get somebody to teach me Spanish music"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me"

Bob Geldof, Actor

"I think I'm a music fan before anything else"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

"From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"I firmly believe that we have more latent musical talent in America than there is in any other country. But to dig it out there must be good music throughout the land, a lot of it. Everyone must hear it, and such a process takes time"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music"

John Sebastian, Musician

"In Evita I wasn't really hugely involved with it. I gave a little bit of help but they needed a bit of technical help on the movie and so some of my music people went in at the end of the movie and helped out with it"

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Composer

"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff"

Frank Zappa, Musician

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"Love is a friendship set to music"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music"

George Harrison, Musician

"Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"Music is a way for me to express my feelings and emotions, and I think that's the most important thing for any artist"

Alan Walker, Musician

"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"Music is like a huge release of tension"

James Taylor, Musician

"I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique"

Gary Wright, Musician

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

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