Music Quotes

"And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"This is a cause that musicians can take to heart because one of our main reasons for being is to share our music with other people, and this takes us to people who probably wouldn't otherwise get to hear music on quite this level"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"Quite frankly, I've always listened to the black side of the radio dial. Where I grew up, there was a lot of it and there was a lot of live music around"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics"

Glenn Frey, Musician

"Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"Choreography is mentally draining, but there's a pleasure in getting into the studio with the dancers and the music"

Alvin Ailey, Dancer

"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I think the women - Lauryn Hill, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu - are doing new conceptual things and using their voices to create new American music"

Boz Scaggs, Musician

"That's what so sad about a lot of modern music, in my opinion, so many young bands never stay around long enough to fulfill their ultimate promise. They only get halfway there or a quarter of the way there"

Alan Vega, Musician

"It's a music video but she was real specific on the character that Mary J. Blige was playing, and that I was playing in this video and I told her whenever you get to jump to the big screen I'd love to come with you and she honored that"

Blair Underwood, Actor

"Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't"

Ann Beattie, Writer

"Anything I do has to be directly related to my music. If it isn't, I don't really see a point to it"

Alanis Morissette, Musician

"Music is the key to the female heart"

Johann G. Seume, Theologian

"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality"

Bryan White, Musician

"We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode"

Gary Wright, Musician

"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies"

Gary Wright, Musician

"I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"I completely love playing and designing games and always will. I am so into games that I listen to game music all day. That may sound strange, but you can guarantee I'm a hardcore gamer and would never let you down by designing a crappy title"

John Romero, Inventor

"If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive"

James Hetfield, Musician

"Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music"

Jerry Reed, Musician

"If you can make the family life and the music work together that's wonderful. If you can make it work"

Edwin Starr, Musician

"Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"Be honest with yourself and the way you act when you hear music. That way, when people watch, they'll see something from your heart and soul, and as a result will communicate your feeling and thought much better"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording"

Richard O'Brien, Actor

"The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing"

Gary Wright, Musician

"It's that kind of in-born music thing - I could pick up the guitar and play something. It's not something I consciously do"

Ziggy Marley, Musician

"You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway"

Sebastian Bach, Musician

"I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy"

Paul Nurse, Scientist

"That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"In the hip-hop community, it's about how real are you, or how strong can you be, and really my music just reflects me. If you can accept me, then you can accept my music"

Nick Cannon, Musician

"I've been in the studio experimenting on making a CD of my own. I'm trying out different producers, styles, sounds. With music, as opposed to acting, you are not playing a character. You are showing people who you are. I really want to have my spirit in it"

Emily Rossum

"One cannot imagine Scots music and song without the contribution of Burns"

Len G. Murray, Lawyer

"I hate music, especially when it's played"

Jimmy Durante, Comedian

"My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"I may quit the music business someday, but never the music"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out"

Lloyd Banks, Musician

"There are peaks and valleys in anything and that is especially true for the music business. It is very inconsistent. But if you are wise, you can let those downs really bring you to another level of your personality"

Bryan White, Musician

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