Music Quotes

"My students frequently ask what their next project should be. My advice: immerse yourself in the music you love and you will find what you want to do; you will discover your next project"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"If someone who knows what's going on comes up and says they liked the music, I appreciate that"

John Lurie, Actor

"Sometimes when you start losing detail, whether it's in music or in life, something as small as failing to be polite, you start to lose substance"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"I was the first woman ever named Entertainer of the Year in country music"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"I want to make music that somehow connects to the things that I love in America music"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"We asserted ourselves as a music community, and showed legislators that music is positive. Especially if you've sold 300 million records worldwide and pay taxes"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in"

John Frusciante, Musician

"As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me"

John Frusciante, Musician

"Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"I've found that music allows years to fold like an accordion over each other, so I guess you don't feel the passage of time as much"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No"

Amy Grant, Musician

"One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"To have someone to relate to and hopefully enjoy the music and get a positive message out of it, to make the best music that we possibly could, those were the goals"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves"

Jackson Browne, Musician

"I'm doing what I do for the right reasons. I love the music that I make"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"While I was into many different types of music, and played with many different local groups, I really didn't have a band to call my own until Dire Straits was formed in 1977"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"As I sit down and start to work, I often panic. I stare at the empty piece of music paper. How can I say that my piece will be ready for performance next January when I do not have a recipe for making it happen?"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"I like Jailhouse Rock and Love Me Tender. The black-and-white films. With music, I tend more toward the '70s stuff because I was at the shows for those, so they bring back memories"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue"

Amy Grant, Musician

"Secondarily, I think films that are driven by music also terrify studios"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"Well, I want to do The Music Man. I think it's an amazing opportunity, but I think that they are probably looking at major movie stars right now, and I don't blame them"

Gregory Harrison, Actor

"The Mekons were kind of like the background music of my life"

Jonathan Franzen, Novelist

"The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general"

George Crumb, Composer

"Perhaps of all the most basic elements of music, rhythm most directly affects our central nervous system"

George Crumb, Composer

"If we look at music history closely, it is not difficult to isolate certain elements of great potency which were to nourish the art of music for decades, if not centuries"

George Crumb, Composer

"As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other"

George Crumb, Composer

"I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"This is not a happy time for this kind of music in this country"

George Crumb, Composer

"It is easy to write unthinking music"

George Crumb, Composer

"I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music"

George Crumb, Composer

"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"My mom was a dancer, my dad's a singer and I've always had that kind of music in my life"

Elvis Stojko, Athlete

"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it"

John Corigliano, Composer

"We're all music fans and we just love being in a band, and that's why we do it"

Joel Madden, Musician

"I think that our goal in Good Charlotte is just to be Good Charlotte, and whatever happens, whatever that means, we don't even know, and make music and whatever"

Joel Madden, Musician

"In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

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