Music Quotes

"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"My taste in music and entertainment is quite eclectic"

Yancy Butler, Actress

"I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I play music a lot but on my own mostly, so it was nice to be around other people. There was a certain sense a relief in the physical act of just playing and being with other musicians"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"I've been wanting to go into music ever since I can remember. I mean even before I became an actor. I just thought it would be a tough field to break into, so I became an actor instead"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Music is a whole oasis in my head. The creation process is so personal and fulfilling"

River Phoenix, Actor

"Music is in my DNA!"

Rihanna, Musician

"If you really believe music is dangerous, you should let it go in one ear and out the other"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan"

Obie Trice, Musician

"90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on"

Patton Oswalt, Comedian

"The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff"

Niklas Zennstrom, Scientist

"Music is a very personal and emotional form of communication"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"I guess the two Manifesto, Communicating Vessels, Mad Love, and some of his poetry made a significant mark on me but as far as bringing a literary element into the music I see it as a much broader assimilation"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved everything about them - the songs, the music, the romance and the spectacle. They were real class and I knew that I wanted to be in that world"

Sharon Stone, Actress

"Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the world"

Yo-Yo Ma, Musician

"I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"I view life as a learning experience. It is not so much all about music; it is about what happens when you are doing the music"

Michael Schenker, Musician

"Music is a hobby, because I'm not making any money out of it, but I put just as much conviction into that as I do into my acting"

River Phoenix, Actor

"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"There's an institution here called the National Sound Archive, and there's a character who works there, Paul Wilson. He takes a very special interest in the history of the music and advised Martin Davidson of the existence of these tapes"

Evan Parker, Musician

"You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th"

Obie Trice, Musician

"But it wasn't just a technical approach towards the piano, studying the music for this film was also a way of approaching the soul of the film, because the film is really about the soul of Schubert and the soul of Bach"

Isabelle Huppert, Actress

"I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock"

Rick Moranis, Actor

"The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music"

Peter De Vries, Novelist

"If I think about the way I was drawn into the music, it was much more by recordings than by live performances"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I'm John Lee Hooker in the sense that he was a blues man and he played blues his whole life. I'm a rock guy and I'm going to play rock music my whole life"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn"

Robin Trower, Musician

"You know, I'm the 1st black solo MC from Detroit. I didn't do the 50 Cent sales but hey... I got a long career, I'm still young and I'm trying to bring really good music"

Obie Trice, Musician

"The music industry over there seems to treat America like it's one territory even though they got offices in different parts of America - they're still quite sort of 'America is the territory.'"

Sean Booth, Musician

"If you went to see me today, you might not like my music"

Link Wray, Musician

"I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me"

Laura Hillenbrand, Author

"My music has always been strong in melodic content"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

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