Music Quotes

"You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself"

Eric San, Musician

"I privilege the music over the lyrics"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"But, you know, I'd be happy just making music"

John Lurie, Actor

"Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have"

Jaron Lanier, Artist

"My parents did not have any interest in music"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

"I would happy for someone to download my music"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"I am not doing something that it is experimental music in relation to classical music"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing"

John Mellencamp, Musician

"Right now music is more my outlet than acting, but I'm waiting for that one satisfying role"

Jeremy London, Actor

"Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be"

Joel Madden, Musician

"I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"Dreams do come true, even for someone who couldn't speak English and never had a music lesson or much of an education"

Lawrence Welk, Musician

"I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"I am consciously not trying to bring in World Music elements. The ways that I work and feel are completely different in how they sound than someone playing the Kora in Africa would play it"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time"

Jerry Only, Musician

"I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family"

Jerry Only, Musician

"I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references"

Joanna Newsom, Musician

"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late 70s and early 80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music"

Harry Dean Stanton, Actor

"People my age don't always know where their music comes from"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music"

Isaac Hanson, Musician

"If you play the very subtle jazz tunes with acoustic pianos, acoustic bass and it's a dead standard, you are going to play very differently. It depends on the music"

Lee Ritenour, Musician

"Arranging is the way I put my stamp on my music as much as my guitar playing"

Lee Ritenour, Musician

"True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know who I am based on my music, not on what they read in the tabloids"

Lisa Marie Presley, Musician

"I'd forgotten what it was like to play music and have it be fun so I decided to stop. I wasn't even sure if I was going to make a new record, I was just kinda quitting"

Evan Dando, Musician

"I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"It's like a piece of music; you never lose sight of the theme. Each scene pushes off to the next like music builds and you can almost hear the next chord progression, so it has a strict structure, which is very compelling"

David Strathairn, Actor

"The reward is that you can actually create a world separate from reality with a story, actors, music, and camera design. When it works it can entertain, move people and teach us all"

Colleen Atwood, Designer

"Perhaps many of the perplexing problems of the new music could be put into a new light if we were to reintroduce the ancient idea of music being a reflection of nature"

George Crumb, Composer

"I am certain that most composers today would consider today's music to be rich, not to say confusing, in its enormous diversity of styles, technical procedures, and systems of esthetics"

George Crumb, Composer

"I think listening to real classic soul material made me learn how to feel music that's sung"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"I wouldn't mind producing a movie with a music storyline, but acting in one is too close to home"

Garth Brooks, Musician

"Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something or some kind of explanation or just to feel good"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Happy music doesn't tend to move me much"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"The moment you start to talk about playing music, you destroy music. It cannot be talked about. It can only be played, enjoyed and listened to"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"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 Kasem, Actor

"If you make music for the human needs you have within yourself, then you do it for all humans who need the same things. You enrich humanity with the profound expression of these feelings"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women"

Billy Joel, Musician

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