Music Quotes

"I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace"

Bryan White, Musician

"I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill"

Bryan White, Musician

"Very often I suspend my musical sensibilities to enjoy music as a fan"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"I think the future looks great for music, musicians, bass players, and all we love about music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"There never seems to be enough hours in the day. At the moment I have no time to make new music because I've been doing so much promotion for this new single"

Jamelia, Musician

"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things"

Howard Gardner, Psychologist

"Films and gramophone records, music, books and buildings show clearly how vigorously a man's life and work go on after his "death," whether we feel it or not, whether we are aware of the individual names or not. There is no such thing as death according to our view!"

Martin Bormann, Soldier

"What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"Music has nothing to do with your technical ability"

Robin Trower, Musician

"I find it very, very hard. He was part of the fabric of my life. We were kids together, and teenagers. We spent the whole of our lives with each other because of our music"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it"

Gary Wright, Musician

"What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness"

Bryan White, Musician

"We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things and evolve with their instruments. This is a cycle that happens over and over again in music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"It is never easy for anyone to have success in music"

Billy Sheehan, Musician

"Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"I was about 11 when my mother brought me this karaoke machine and I was really into it back then, but about 4 or 5 years ago is when I started printing up my own music, going to the studio and doing my own thing"

Obie Trice, Musician

"Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them"

John James Audubon, Scientist

"Realistically, English is a universal language; it's the number one language for music and for communicating with the rest of the world"

Enrique Iglesias, Musician

"But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"I had never done TV. I think it's a foolish medium for, most rock 'n roll music. Nobody ever comes off well on TV"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

"I think you can feel the pain I've experienced in my music. It's something that a lot of people can relate to"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness"

Blu Cantrell, Musician

"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"The biggest deal for me was that all 24 winners are placed on the Billboard CD of the Year, which went out to 500 of the biggest Music Reps in the business, from radio and press to management and booking"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21"

Arthur Godfrey, Entertainer

"The Bee Gees were always heavily influenced by black music. As a songwriter, it's never been difficult to pick up on the changing styles of music out there, and soul has always been my favourite genre"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

"I enjoy listening to classical music and heavy metal. I play basketball and try to go diving at least once a year. I don't really have hobbies in the traditional sense... I engage in too many activities already through the actions of my characters"

Alan Dean Foster, Author

"For a long time I have compared cinema to music, I think cinema has a lot to do with the rhythm of music"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"What inspires me is not so much the music as the opportunity to interact with composers. I think that has driven everything I've done"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio and recorded a few things, but it's tough trying to sell a song. It's all about finding that hook, that melody"

Scott Patterson, Actor

"For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started"

Nick Cannon, Musician

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