Music Quotes

"I just do what I do. I like to make music"

"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist"

Nina Simone, Musician

"To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music"

Nina Simone, Musician

"We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be like any of the other bands"

Michael Giles, Musician

"They consistently hobble artists' in the name of selling more units then are surprised when the fans don't buy the lukewarm music this produces. So they then drop the artist"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"Now, music almost feels naked in my mind"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"I'm not trying to overcome my father or fill his shoes or reach any kind of level that he did. We're talking about a Mozart of rock music"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"I like music because it's the only invisible art form"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"When I'm alone at home, I really prefer to listen to Wagner's orchestral music rather than any vocal music. I find it illuminating not to have to pay attention to voices in the recordings"

Kiri Te Kanawa, Musician

"I got hooked into folk music by accident, because that's what white college kids liked when I was a child"

Stephen Stills, Musician

"Plus I love Tanya Tucker and I love country music"

Little Richard, Musician

"This isn't about the money. This is just for me. I love music"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"So okay, I accepted, and I realized while working for that concert that I'd been missing something very important and vital to me, and that something was music"

Joseph Jarman, Musician

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"A real active music set, based and really concentrated on what the music's all about. That's what I'm all about - singing and a really good strong music set"

Jon Secada, Musician

"Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I don't like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"Through literacy you can begin to see the universe. Through music you can reach anybody. Between the two there is you, unstoppable"

Grace Slick, Musician

"The people on the business side in the music business are kind of different from the theatre business. I think it's partly because there are different pressures on the industries"

Tim Curry, Actor

"I grew up to the sound of live music in our Brooklyn household"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"Finally, I would like to remind record companies that they have a cultural responsibility to give the buying public great music. Milking a trend to death is not contributing to culture and is ultimately not profitable"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"I don't want to be the cliche American Idol dude. I want to be different, you know - that's the whole goal, me and music. It's about being yourself and being unique"

Paul McDonald, Musician

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"If not for music, I would probably be a very frustrated scientist. It's one way to answer the question, 'What is the meaning of life?' I feel music answers it better"

Paula Cole, Musician

"I think they can co-exist. You don't have to put one down for another. I've been bitten by the acting bug, and where it takes me, it won't take away from the music"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years"

Barbara Mandrell, Musician

"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear"

Jane Horrocks, Actress

"I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"As far as I was concerned the important thing was that the music was getting the attention as well as me so it was always a great way to get more of the public to connect with classical music, and opera particularly"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"Having good health, being able to breathe and be happy, that's one of the most beautiful gifts. On top of that, I have the gift to play music and make people happy through that. I'm just telling you from my heart, I'm so in love with life"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money"

Brandon Boyd, Musician

"One of the reasons we survive as a band is that we are seen as a band of today. We don't want to be seen as a band that tours and plays old songs. We feel that we are making the best music of our careers"

Andrew Fletcher, Writer

"I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life"

Brian Welch, Musician

"Because I gave myself - I left school after the second semester of my junior year to pursue a career in music. and I gave myself five years to make it and I made it in three"

Ruben Studdard, Musician

"I did my own music videos, my own TV commercials"

Helen Reddy, Actress

"I don't think events in your life affect your music"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"It's totally produced now. It's almost like a conveyor belt of what metal's supposed to be like these days. It's not music to me"

Geezer Butler, Musician

"To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music"

Eric Brown, Writer

"I'm sure if we had made an album that was more traditional would have been released immediately. When we actually play this music on stage and people become familiar with it, it will become more popular"

Mick Taylor, Musician

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