Music Quotes

"Coldplay are just four friends trying to make great music"

"In a way, it's my way of dealing with, finding closure with Grateful Dead music, and giving thanks in a way to Jerry and Bob and all the guys in the band for making up this wonderful music"

Phil Lesh, Musician

"I think the problem with a lot of the fusion music is that it's extremely predictable, it's a rock rhythm and the solos all play the same stuff and they play it over and over again and there's a certain musical virtuosity involved in it"

Ken Burns, Director

"I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening"

Peter Tork, Musician

"Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music"

Peter Tork, Musician

"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"When I'd tell people I like country music they'd get this look on their faces. People were kind of ashamed of country"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"So evidently music was a killer app and is a killer app for computer and the Internet; it just took the tech industry a long time to hear that message"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"So a more sensible thing it seemed to me was to go to Silicon Valley and be pushing on the technology companies to accelerate the use of audio and music in computers"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places"

John Cale, Musician

"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy"

John Frusciante, Musician

"The people need to feel the music"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"Jim, as just a spoken poet, was not that good. He needed the music behind him. He felt a security and a sense of abandon when the music existed around him"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since"

Ray Manzarek, Musician

"My sons are into German music, but they are into all kinds of music"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"There's an inherent thing in me where, if things are going too smooth, I'll sabotage the hell out of them, just to make the music more of a sanctuary"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine"

John Fogerty, Musician

"I feel a part of the congregation. I've never had to do special music. The kids sing in the choir. It's just normal. We're treated like everybody else"

Amy Grant, Musician

"For me, the backdrop of half the experiences of life includes music"

Amy Grant, Musician

"I don't generally find myself listening to the music of a film unless there's something awfully wrong with it"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Unquestionably, our contemporary world of music is far richer, in a sense, than earlier periods, due to the historical and geographical extensions of culture to which I have referred"

George Crumb, Composer

"I think we're in a very low point of music right now"

George Crumb, Composer

"Put you energy into music. If it fails you, you can become an accountant or a dentist. And then if you become a dentist or an accountant, it's too late to become a musician afterwards"

Peter Tork, Musician

"Elvis deserves a lot of credit for bringing the blues to middle America, not the Vegas stuff. The early stuff, The Sun records, and the first few RCA records. He was wonderful, he had the power, the drive, and he was so dedicated to his music"

Peter Tork, Musician

"When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"A woman's two cents worth is worth two cents in the music business"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"I feel that Christian music is a subculture directed towards the Christians. It's not really being exposed to non-Christians and it's not really created for non-Christians, so non-Christians almost never hear any of this music"

Larry Norman, Musician

"The heyday of video music was the mid 80's"

Nina Blackwood, Celebrity

"When I was 15, I did not know nothing about what concerned the world of music"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers"

Jam Master Jay, Musician

"The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"It is the element I miss in electronic music - no performance, no loving immersion. Maybe that is why I was never particularly drawn to electronic music"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"It's really hard in this day and age, with radio and MTV being so consolidated, to get new music out there. I think we've become a really legitimate, viable avenue for getting new music out there"

Josh Schwartz, Producer

"Well, Smoke n' Mirrors has very much a world music flavor and it doesn't park itself in one country. It borrows heavily from the Brazilian angle, which is dear to my heart, and I recorded several albums with that flavor"

Lee Ritenour, Musician

"I've talked about sex a great deal in my music for a great while now. I feel very comfortable with it"

Janet Jackson, Musician

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