Music Quotes

"Nobody has ever built a reliable peer-to-peer service, where people can really access all the music they want in one location,... Once I got it into my head, I couldn't imagine the media space without one"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"Napster works because people who love music share and participate"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"Metal is still the biggest music now in America"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"It's fun having songs about parties and gigolos, but I really wanted to use my music as a form of art. Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think, and I wanted to do that with this song"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"I take all of my music seriously and personally"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"To get nostalgic about other people's music, or even about your own, makes a terrible statement about the condition of your life and your prospects for the future"

Neil Peart, Musician

"All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?"

Obie Trice, Musician

"I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music"

Obie Trice, Musician

"I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics"

Obie Trice, Musician

"It's just like music when you reckon it up. It's like listening to Pavement it's just The Fall in 1985, isn't it? They haven't got an original idea in their heads"

Mark E. Smith, Musician

"I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new to the music, but I think that was talking over a ten year or fifteen year time span"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"That was my way, and I also use the music after five years, I started hearing opera, opera, it was very good instrument to keep the spirit very strong because you feel like you are yourself singing opera, and I used to hear a lot of opera, they send me tapes"

Mordechai Vanunu, Scientist

"Music was around in my family in two ways. My mother would occasionally sing to me, but I was mostly stimulated by the classical music my father had left behind. I had an ear for music, I suppose, so that's what began my interest in music"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"I'm desperate to start a career in music"

Katie Price, Model

"We don't really talk about music that much, to be honest with you. It's not some I usually - I can't really talk about other people's tracks never mind my own"

Sean Booth, Musician

"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music"

Jason Mraz, Musician

"Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating"

Ice T, Musician

"I have a 6-year-old, and his thing is to turn on Radio Disney in the car, and I get such an allergic reaction to listening to that music and the context into which it falls. I'm really working on him about that"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"I certainly understand that we're all trying to make a living, but I'm not thinking about that when I'm making it. And if that's your sole motivation, it's going to reflect that narcissistic greed, and you're going to hear it in the music"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"Not compromising the music, but there is a way, by just showing the people that you're sincere and honest with what you're doing, and by talking to them"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Brazilian music has many of the ingredients that I strive for in my own music: Strong melodies and a disciplined but intense rhythmic concept, and interesting harmonies"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it"

T-Bone Burnett

"And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth"

Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer

"I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself"

James Taylor, Musician

"I have tried, in all the ways I can, to make timeless music"

Judy Collins, Musician

"I think it's a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesn't seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and that's ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations"

Saul Williams, Musician

"My American gay audience have continued to dance and sing to the music I make in a way that straight Americans haven't. I am grateful to them for that"

George Michael, Musician

"The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music"

Patsy Cline, Musician

"I'm in the music business for one purpose - to make money"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I'm a businesswoman. I am a music lover. I like for people to like my music. When you listen to top 40 radio, you hear pop stuff. You hear rock stuff. You hear all these different influences"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

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