Music Quotes

"Yes, fractals are what I want to find in my music"

"I only want to give a metaphysic for my music"

"When I did the record, I was coming off a time when my contract had been sold and the music industry had changed a lot. I didn't understand how to make records for big labels. I was waiting for a new kind of record label to emerge"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Blues music is becoming more and more popular than it ever was. I'm always meeting people on the road that are really young, and are guitar players. male and female"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"More labels should be like that. Instead of putting these records out myself, I should have just signed with them, but they probably don't like my music (laughs)"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world"

Nina Simone, Musician

"Creativity is much better when it's free. Someone can take it and sell it if that's what it needs, and from that standpoint, you have to have a label. If you could make your music and just give it away and somehow make a living - that would be the best scenario"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"I want to reach as many people as possible with the message of music, of wonderful opera"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"You don't need any brains to listen to music"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"I was very pleased to find that once I had records out music videos were starting to happen, so I directed some of my own music videos and got to experiment in other areas of expression"

Thomas Dolby, Musician

"One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story"

Suzy Bogguss, Musician

"I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?"

Kate Chopin, Author

"So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night"

Mary Chapin Carpenter, Musician

"The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport"

Van Morrison, Musician

"I really didn't try to make an effort to make urban music, but I am a product of my inspirations"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"I started in high school to be interested in music and from there, I decided to study in college. Yeah, you're right, I did start late, but luckily, because of my schooling, I picked up a lot of ground pretty quick"

Jon Secada, Musician

"For me, I can only do that from my own experience with people I've known and things that I've lived and experienced. That's what good pop music is all about, pop music that does reach out to people. It's very personalized and very real, honest and sincere"

Jon Secada, Musician

"I don't feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That's what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion"

Tony Snow, Journalist

"Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play"

Van Morrison, Musician

"As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music"

Van Morrison, Musician

"And it's a crime because the great plays of history, going all the way back to the Greeks, are part of everybody's heritage. It's just like in music, Beethoven or Mozart, that's everybody's heritage"

Tony Randall, Actor

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception"

Jimmy Carl Black, Musician

"It was very satisfying knowing I could come in not really knowing what I was going to do, and at the end of the session feeling that I'd really done interesting guitar work and knowing that I'd really contributed to the music"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"I just fell in love with his music. I thought Yanni was Japanese. I didn't have any idea what a Yanni was. I just thought I was in love with a Japanese man who wrote beautiful music"

Linda Evans, Actress

"I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful"

Ronnie Montrose, Musician

"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"First of all I listen to music. I like music"

Gyorgy Ligeti, Composer

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger"

Neil Young, Musician

"I always think it's important to choose your initial theme very carefully because you're going to be married to it for a long time. You might have to generate an hour's worth of music from a very short, little piece of theme"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"I have no confidence issues with the impact or the quality of the music. No one in hip-hop, before this point and to this point, with all due respect, has done this"

Mos Def, Musician

"The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?"

Alex Chilton, Musician

"I been doing music my whole life"

Young Buck, Musician

"You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it"

Neal Schon, Musician

"I've always listened to a lot of film music, actually"

Marc Newson, Designer

"I don't like to be labeled, to be anything. I've made the mistake before myself of labeling my music, but it's counter-productive"

Neil Young, Musician

"Commitments are one of the worst things to have in the music business. They're very annoying"

Neil Young, Musician

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