Music Quotes

"We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I love to leave the interpretation of my music up to the listener. It's fun to see what they'll say it is"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I love putting the music together. It's like art"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I seem to have secured some place in world of music and that's kind of all that really matters to me"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse"

Cassandra Wilson, Musician

"I make the kind of music I like"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist"

Bobby Sherman, Musician

"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Don't make music for some vast, unseen audience or market or ratings share or even for something as tangible as money. Though it's crucial to make a living, that shouldn't be your inspiration. Do it for yourself"

Billy Joel, Musician

"Well, I heard of Sunny Ade, and looks as if his music is gonna be big on a global level, because I was in London the other day and some people asked me to review the album"

Dennis Brown, Musician

"When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music"

Eric San, Musician

"Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks"

Bill Kreutzmann, Musician

"One of the album's songs features Mary J. Blige, but I don't want to talk too much about it yet. I think you will hear the music that's been playing in my head when it comes out"

Chaka Khan, Musician

"We do it because we love to play music and that's what we're all about"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything, have one primary concern - mankind"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record"

Beck, Musician

"With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have"

Edward W. Howe

"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on"

Ben E. King, Musician

"I appreciate an audience that reacts to the music, even if they jump on stage and try to beat us up, I think that's a fantastic reaction. I think that they're really hearing something then"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"Since I'm allergic to various things, the army wouldn't accept me during the war, and I got into the Office of War Information, which sent music to Europe"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"It was only later on that I became more interested in older music"

Elliott Carter, Composer

"No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"I was stuck with looking like a girl. As soon as I got out of music it was straight off to the hairdressers"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"Ray had so much love of life and the music. He had so much integrity. He treated the music with so much dignity and respect. I spent four and a half years as a sideman with Ray Brown's trio. Music was his life, more so than anyone I could mention"

Benny Green, Musician

"I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me"

Bruce McCulloch, Actor

"I think there's a natural chemistry between us as friends; and there's really no separation between the rapport that we feel when we're in conversation and when we're playing music, it's one in the same"

Benny Green, Musician

"The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music"

Bruce Dickinson, Musician

"People who play conventional music are threatened by electronica and don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do"

Bill Laswell, Musician

"In all the music that deals with experimental repetition, drum and bass, dub, various kinds of house music, there's always been a quality of atmosphere and ambience"

Bill Laswell, Musician

"Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry"

Chico Hamilton, Musician

"Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do for you is kill you - and kill you the long, slow, hard way"

Billie Holiday, Musician

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