Music Quotes

"What's great about music is it takes so many kinds of people, including me. Everybody is in a different place"

"The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"Because the casual music listeners are the ones who turn on the radio and they don't really care what's playing, they just know that they kinda like it or it's easy to drive to or it's easy to sing along to or whatever"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with orchestral arrangements and all the stuff. We were all blues fanatics. We like R+B and blues and simple, gut-feeling music"

Mick Ralphs, Musician

"I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

"I spent most of the year in the studio for electronic music at a radio station in Cologne or in other studios where I produced new works with all kinds of electronic apparatus"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"So no one should rely on television either for their knowledge of music or for news. There's just more going on. It's an adjunct to the written word, which I think is still the most important thing"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"What I'm trying to do is find either existing properties or come up with properties or angles or stories which will create music drama. It's my obsession and most of all I would like to remain working in theatre. I think it's very much alive"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone"

Ike Turner, Musician

"There are better ways we can transform this virulent hatred - by living our ideals, the Peace Corps, exchange students, teachers, exporting our music, poetry, blue jeans"

Helen Thomas, Journalist

"I don't get in there and create a character. It's more of a voice that I hear living inside the music"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"With other people, you're always swapping music. Somebody is always listening to something you've never heard. It's a great way to hear all sorts of new things"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives"

James W. Black, Scientist

"I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously"

Warren Zevon, Musician

"Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"There weren't a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn't have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death"

Dave Grohl, Musician

"You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other"

John Fogerty, Musician

"And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"But music raises a lot of issues. Music is something that matters to people a lot, and they put a lot of passion into it. And I think when you have an area like that, you're gonna find a lot of issues coming up"

Kurt Loder, Journalist

"My whole mood or sense can change by virtue of the music that I'm listening to. It really does affect me on a visceral and emotional level"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"But music can save your life sometimes. It probably saved me from working in a bank or something. That's a kind of salvation right there"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"I have always loved Scottish music - all sorts of Celtic, Gaelic music"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"You can fill this table up with people who are racist, homophobic, Satanist worshippers, sexist and we can be arguing but if you put on a song, I guarantee that people will stop and listen and that's what I love about music, it can bring people together"

Charles King, Politician

"All my music is very simple in that melody is usually clearly stated"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"I don't regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I'm not a great player. I just like music. Drums 'n' bass is pretty exciting and I'd love to explore it"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"By the time I get done with my fans and my music and my kids and my family and my fiance and my horses, well, they suffer too, but, I don't really have much time left to do anything else"

Tanya Tucker, Musician

"I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly"

Richard Price, Writer

"I got caught up on drugs for a few years, I'm off it, I'm very happy, got two kids and a family and everything. And like I said I'm making the underground music, and keeping it real"

Vanilla Ice, Musician

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