Music Quotes

"Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"These are the sort of things that push you on in music - the curiosity, a passion for new ideas"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"I wrote... Neon Ballroom in that time where I hated music, really everything about it, I hated it"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I'm fortunate I have this coterie of musicians around me to help take music to next level. Being surrounded by so much creative energy, so many creative people really feeds that creativity in me"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"We just make music. For I never stop working"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"I want people to come to my music without prejudice. I want them to get the music first. And who I am isn't that important. If they like the songs to me that's a good thing"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders"

Brenda Lee, Musician

"Good rock music always tends to be around"

Dave Davies, Musician

"Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"That was one of the big problems when I was at Harvard studying music. We had to write choral pieces in the style of Brahms or Mendelssohn, which was distressing because in the end you realized how good Brahms is, and how bad you are"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"A lot of musicians aren't proud; they'll do other work, just to be able to play music. I guess that's the way it's always going to be - musicians will have to suffer to a certain degree in order to obtain their outlet"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"I still don't understand the music industry that much. Everything I learned was from hanging out with rock musicians in studios. I certainly have respect for those who make music their livelihood"

Brendan Fraser, Actor

"Records are just moments of achievement. They're like receipts for work done. Time goes on and people keep playing music"

Bill Laswell, Musician

"Music and the music business are two different things"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I started playing music at a pretty young age"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"These wealthy people were very interested in contemporary music. They wanted to help diffuse it and get it to be known to other people"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music"

Dan Hawkins, Musician

"The only thing that exists to me is commercial pop music"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"My dad loved black singers. So listening to New Orleans music, eventually I wanted to play an instrument"

Bill Kreutzmann, Musician

"I direct a lot of TV commercials and music videos"

Alex Winter, Actor

"I sat out a few years because I wasn't really sure what I wanted to do next. So many things were changing in music and in culture, so it seemed like a good time to step back"

Beck, Musician

"But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"It's Frank's painting on the cover. We were originally going to use a Salvador Dali painting that we got permission from Salvador Dali to use, and Frank found this one, and it really did fit the music much more"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"America does not need gorgeous halls and concert rooms for its musical development, but music schools with competent teachers, and many, very many, free scholarships for talented young disciples who are unable to pay the expense of study"

Anton Seidl, Musician

"The repercussions of what you put out and what people gravitate to in your music never registered at all. I never had that thing that maybe other bands have - a specific idea of what they are and what their sound is"

Beck, Musician

"Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart"

Andres Segovia, Musician

"Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more"

Ryan Cabrera, Musician

"I'm a fan of music from all over the world"

Michael Winterbottom, Director

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