Music Quotes

"I tend to not want to put labels or categories on the music, only because people come with preconceived ideas about what they're going to hear, or won't come for this reason"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth"

Christina Aguilera, Musician

"My training as an engineer has enabled me to design the stuff, but the reason I do it is not to make music but for the opportunity to work with musicians"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"Painting and music were the only things I worked at industriously and faithfully"

Pierre Loti, Writer

"I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens"

T-Bone Burnett

"The first condition for making music is not to make a noise"

Jose Bergamin, Writer

"My Dad died during the flu epidemic in 1918 when I was 4 years old. He left a lot of classical recordings behind that I began listening to at an early age, so he must have been a music lover"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"As I grew up, I was interested in other areas, too, especially literature. It became a major love of mine. Later, it became a difficult choice for me as to whether to major in music or literature. It wasn't until my 30s that I began a profession in music"

Tom Glazer, Musician

"Music became an obsession, and eventually we felt more comfortable with each other then we did with anyone else. The three of us were like one person"

Robin Gibb, Musician

"But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"The public, hearing pop music, is, without knowing it, also soaking up jazz"

Norman Granz, Musician

"They've been brought up on the best music. It's gonna be so good"

Sean Booth, Musician

"There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you"

James Taylor, Musician

"I write music with an exclamation point!"

Richard Wagner, Composer

"For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury"

Wim Wenders, Director

"I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday"

Nastassja Kinski, Actress

"My big ears indicated a talent for music. This thrilled me"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Being in Blur has allowed me to travel and hear the music that's being made all over the world"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos"

Richard King, Director

"Music is meant to be a beautiful thing"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"As for the symphonic activities... when I was a student at the Eastman School of Music, I became exposed to a lot more musical forms, elements, opportunities, and I fell in love with strings and their uses"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"This music that was supposed to only come from tapes like in any restaurant. Something would happened. One bird will start to do a little jazz thing, and another bird will start to answer"

John Hench, Artist

"I hope to refine music, study it, try to find some area that I can unlock. I don't quite know how to explain it but it's there. These can't be the only notes in the world, there's got to be other notes some place, in some dimension, between the cracks on the piano keys"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

"You know what, the drummer is my manager. He's busy. And I'm busy. I don't need the dough, though. But having said that, there's a limit to how much bad music I wanna play. I did it when I was young, and some of the music was OK, but it wasn't great"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"It's more important for me to have a good record with good music and be part of a movie that's good and where the music is used in a really great way. That's the important thing. The other stuff you want to say about it, I don't care"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"As a musician usually music is your way out"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"Please write music like Wagner, only louder"

Samuel Goldwyn, Producer

"To do it always right, that is what music is to me"

Chuck Mangione, Musician

"My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have"

Stephan Jenkins, Musician

"I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

"They wasn't gonna give you nothin'. I didn't care as long as they let me play my music. Cash on the spot... You cheat me and I'm gonna get me some money, too"

John Lee Hooker, Musician

"You have to insulate yourself - I'm talking about from everything, people can be talking to you and you won't hear 'em - that's how you write a song. And I haven't been able to do that over here 'cause I'm so busy and then, when I am off, I want to get away from music"

Mel Tillis, Musician

"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"Everyone's just extracting meaning and feeling and emotion from almost every aspect of music, and I think that for me, it's a huge antidote to that to have a concept album"

Aimee Mann, Musician

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