Music Quotes

"I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing"

LaToya London, Musician

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style"

Ken Burns, Director

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining"

Ice Cube, Musician

"But with rap music - not just N.W.A. - but rap music in general, seeing these artists wearing these team logos all the time started bringing a synergy and energy about having to rep your city, your team, everywhere and all the time"

Ice Cube, Musician

"All music is beautiful"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"Music is pretty much the lifestyle, not the music itself. The lifestyle really pulled me off the street. Made me want to do something organized and positive"

Brandon Thomas, Actor

"Every milieu has something ridiculous about it - film-making, the music world, painting - because people who take themselves seriously become funny pretty quickly"

Rebecca Miller, Director

"A good country song takes a page out of somebody's life and puts it to music"

Conway Twitty, Musician

"And then, I was thinking of doing a record just like starting with voice, because I did this one song that was just kind of a cappella, and I did it for this art piece I did where people could come and play music to go with a voice"

Kim Gordon, Musician

"I think PSP is going to be the most successful handheld entertainment device ever. What it will do in terms of the versatility, obviously you can download music to it, and you'll be able to enjoy all your great tunes on it"

Ian Jackson, Scientist

"Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century"

Jeff Healey, Musician

"I don't find music being less important than, like, politics"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"I cannot say what I think is right about music. I only know the rightness of it"

Keith Jarrett, Composer

"But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"As soon as I hear music, something in me starts to vibrate"

Suzanne Farrell, Dancer

"Movie music is noise... even more painful than my sciatica"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

"Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music"

Pat Mastelotto, Musician

"I don't like rap music at all. I don't think it's music. It's just a beat and rapping"

Nina Simone, Musician

"I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"They look at what's more important, like subjects to help with the SAT's, etc. They miss that music is vital. It offers a break from a stressful day of science and math and it's different"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"I just lived it and did my own thing without looking over my shoulder. I think I'm very lucky, considering when I started everything, and the fact that I have a masters in music, and I've always worked in music, and that's what I wanted to do"

Jon Secada, Musician

"Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"People go to movies or listen to music because they want to be inspired"

Daphne Zuniga, Actress

"There's so much beautiful music in the world, and the kids are getting robbed"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"Jazz needs the help. It's the more sophisticated music. All the other music is on the TV, but jazz isn't"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"When the OutKast sound changed and I started producing my own records, I would mirror what I thought that character doing that music would look like. As the sound got a little wilder, freakier and funkier, so did the clothes. Then when the sound got more sophisticated, the clothes changed again"

Andre Benjamin, Musician

"The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music"

Jonathan Edwards, Clergyman

"Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other"

John Fogerty, Musician

"I understand that, but this disc shows the type of music that I've always liked and wanted to make"

Richard Marx, Musician

"It wasn't so much that I had to leave to make it in the music business as I was curious to be out on my own and sort of explore. I never felt that where I was ever influenced my songwriting"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"At 6 years old, the ice became a place for me to express myself. Because I was so shy off the ice, it became my safe haven, with music and freedom and self-expression. That was my emotional outlet"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together"

Neil Young, Musician

"But the thing that will always occupy me the most is music"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Yeah when I was 7 or 8 my moms would have little parties, and I would play the music"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"I'd just like to inspire people to be themselves and do what they want and not conform to the rigid guidelines of the music or entertainment business"

Juliana Hatfield, Musician

"The gift of song is just like... I think music is one of those true things in this world that is universal"

Charles King, Politician

"I feel that I belong to the 19th century. Some composers' music is very topical. It almost says, 'This is about what I read in newspapers yesterday.' Not mine"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"You know I take music seriously, right? So I expect journalists to take being a journalist seriously"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

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