Music Quotes

"We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us"

Jeff Tweedy, Musician

"The difference between me and the newer artists is that I have the history with the architects, the masters that started the music. I know where the music came from"

Ricky Skaggs, Musician

"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

"I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something"

Will Champion, Musician

"I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century"

Walter Murch, Editor

"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

"What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh"

Pete Townshend, Musician

"I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going"

Neal Schon, Musician

"All music has to speak in some form or other"

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Musician

"Working on a play is a vibrant and collaborative business. Everyone from the choreographer to the music director to the director to the writers work together toward the same goal, and everyone chimes in on everything"

Trey Anastasio, Musician

"I never listen to music in the house, I listen to music in the car"

Peter Tork, Musician

"When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music"

Jerry Lee Lewis, Musician

"I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music"

John Frusciante, Musician

"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse"

Bing Crosby, Musician

"I think America concedes that true American music has sprung from the Negro"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"You should listen to a lot of different music"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell"

Dave Matthews, Musician

"The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"Then, when the Depression came, all of this changed completely. Since that time, the entire public is of a very different sort and there was not so much support for contemporary music in a direct way"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"Well, my sister played trumpet. Can you imagine having a sister blowing the trumpet around the house, Fred? And my brother, he played piano. Everybody was playing some kind of music, so it was natural for me to get into it"

Freddie Hubbard, Musician

"Basically, radio hasn't changed over the years. Despite all the technical improvements, it still boils down to a man or a woman and a microphone, playing music, sharing stories, talking about issues - communicating with an audience"

Casey Kasum

"Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards"

Keith Richards, Musician

"I've never intended to be controversial but it's very easy to be controversial in pop music because nobody ever is"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"Although they can do it all the time, you know, they're far better than me, on a musically, on a theoretical music level. You know, they're out of my league"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain"

Bob Marley, Musician

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever"

Bob Marley, Musician

"Without music, life would be a mistake"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

"The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven"

Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher

"Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"I try to use my music to move these people to act"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

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