Music Quotes

"We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"They've pursued their own agendas, and they've done what they've wanted to do and not pursued traditional careers in the music industry. They've followed their own instincts, and they are in many ways maverick performers"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"It didn't even occur to me that I'm the last person in the world who should play salsa or Brazilian music"

David Byrne, Musician

"We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Music fathoms the sky"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

"Music is organized sound"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing"

John Zorn, Composer

"As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving"

Tom Jones, Musician

"I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess"

April Winchell, Actress

"The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"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

"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"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

"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

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

Bob Geldof, Actor

"Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries"

Jimmy Carter, President

"I listen to gospel music"

Mary J. Blige, Musician

"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

"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

"Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects"

George Martin, Producer

"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

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

Walter Lippmann, Journalist

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

Nuno Bettencourt, 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

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

"Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations"

Alfred Jarry, Writer

"Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for"

Peggy Fleming, Athlete

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