Music Quotes

"They sign a bunch of women, and they call it a movement. I don't like the way women in music have been identified as women first and musicians second"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was"

Slash, Musician

"Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep a wife and family and write my classical music, which has always been my passion"

Malcolm Arnold, Composer

"And now, I still really don't care that much but now I have music playing all the time at home, which is a first for me. Whatever. Everything from Ani DiFranco to Dave Matthews to Jack Johnson and Norah Jones"

Jennifer Garner, Actress

"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to my music and play my music at their funerals"

Wynonna Judd, Musician

"Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"One of the things I particularly enjoyed doing was taking raw sound from locations during the film, like the candy machine, and writing pieces of music to go with them, which is totally unnecessary within the context of the film, because they have their own logic"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"The marketing department is really an important part of getting an animated film to work. If the people running it are used to selling live action films and the hard rock music and the sex and all those things... Anything outside that, they just don't know what to do with it"

Don Bluth, Artist

"I'm saddened to see that everyone's pitched out the baby with the bath, in that we say that it can't be one or the other, it could be both. I mean, just because we listen to classical music doesn't mean that we can't listen to jazz"

Don Bluth, Artist

"Anyone interested in the world generally can't help being interested in young adult culture - in the music, the bands, the books, the fashions, and the way in which the young adult community develops its own language"

Margaret Mahy, Author

"Improvised music involves a lot of intuition and I like developing intuition"

Fred Frith, Composer

"Well unfortunately I didn't work with Andre much. But rap is a strong presence in the culture and anyone is going to grateful for its appearance, grateful for any kind of music that has the kind of effect that rap has had on us all"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians"

Gary Larson, Cartoonist

"I still felt we had some really good music on that record, but it's a shame that we couldn't make it better. And the tour was a total mess. We just had no life, no energy, and I felt we were going through the motions"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"This American Jewish music is a new experience for us at least consciously"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"One of the great virtues, apart from the pleasure of performing these works, is that it's opened up an entirely new, expansive repertoire of American Jewish music"

Neville Marriner, Musician

"Love is a friendship set to music"

Joseph Campbell, Author

"I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music"

George Harrison, Musician

"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards"

Keith Richards, Musician

"Another night I dreamed I heard heavenly music sounding in my ears, and a flock of sheep was gathering round it. When the music ceased, the sheep leaped for joy, and ran together, shaking their heads; and one shook his head almost off, and seemed to have nothing but ears"

Joanna Southcott, Celebrity

"Music is a way for me to express my feelings and emotions, and I think that's the most important thing for any artist"

Alan Walker, Musician

"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond rings on her hands"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"Music is like a huge release of tension"

James Taylor, Musician

"I don't sing country music because I'm not capable of singing other kinds of music; I sing it because I think it's the most beautiful kind of music there is"

Lee Ann Womack, Musician

"George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique"

Gary Wright, Musician

"Country music is three chords and the truth"

Harlan Howard, Musician

"The music we made then was so amateurish, compared to the rest of mainstream pop or rock and roll. But what differentiated us from what everybody else was doing in the business was the fact that you could tell that these people came from different reference areas"

Kevin Ayers, Composer

"Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything"

John Kricfalusi, Artist

"High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it"

David Ogden Stiers, Actor

"Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business"

Trevor Rabin, Musician

"The message of music was also the first thing what I learned from my first teacher. She was an organist too and she was very devoted to what she played, so she had a respect for every piece and she felt that she is not allowed to add something of her own"

Kurt Masur, Musician

"The music is a personal expression, like art. It is something that you like doing that comes from within, and is an expression that comes from God. That is why artists are beautiful and why people who copy are not really artistic"

Michael Schenker, Musician

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