Music Quotes

"Computers and electronic music are not the opposite of the warm human music. It's exactly the same"

"I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance"

"At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement"

Bernice Johnson Reagon, Musician

"My first interest was always music, and somehow that channelled itself into films and acting. I don't know what the natural transition of it was. I mean I acted a little bit when I was young and like any kid would in a community theatre"

Andy Garcia, Actor

"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music"

Brian Setzer, Musician

"Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much"

Benny Green, Musician

"I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits you"

Alex Winter, Actor

"You know, there're no rules between Russell and I. We don't want to have to have to talk too much, because it's really precious, really special to play music"

Benny Green, Musician

"Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father"

Benny Green, Musician

"City people live the city. We live in L.A., New York, we live in places where it's chaotic and you never know what's gonna happen. And that's the music - you never know what's gonna happen"

Alice Cooper, Musician

"I realised that the only time I really enjoyed music was when I was in the studio writing. So even though it was a six album deal, they saw quite early on that I wasn't enjoying it as I should be. I didn't feel there was anything behind it"

Adam Rickitt, Actor

"I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop"

Anita Diament, Author

"There's never any pressure on the music having to be something"

Beck, Musician

"I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I have to take time occasionally to get away from the pressures of this business. If I don't, I think I would get stale, and that would show in my music"

Andy Gibb, Musician

"I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime, it's just that things are better now than they were like five, ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write"

Amy Winehouse, Musician

"The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music"

Allan Bloom, Philosopher

"I'm just trying to tell a good story and make thought-provoking, entertaining films. I just try and draw upon the great culture we have as a people, from music, novels, the streets"

Spike Lee, Director

"I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect"

Julie Andrews, Actress

"I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear"

Vera Wang, Designer

"My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason"

Will Smith, Actor

"My parents were worried about me, certainly when I became so deeply interested in music and people like the New York Dolls who, at the time, were very peculiar indeed"

Steven Morrissey, Musician

"The possibilities are endless for me - Broadway, TV, music and film"

Michelle Williams, Actress

"As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests"

James S. Coleman, Sociologist

"I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music"

Gary Oldman, Actor

"To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence"

Quentin Tarantino, Director

"Violence is a part of America. I don't want to single out rap music. Let's be honest. America's the most violent country in the history of the world, that's just the way it is. We're all affected by it"

Spike Lee, Director

"Music is part of God's universe"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Music is a lady that I still love because she gives me the air that I breathe. We need all sorts of nourishment. And music satisfies and nourishes the hunger within ourselves for connection and harmony"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak"

Elfriede Jelinek, Playwright

"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine"

Stephen Leacock, Economist

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