Music Quotes

"The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records"

Richard Branson, Businessman

"I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor"

Amar Bose, Inventor

"We're not uncomfortable with it, and we've already been through enough of the music business where I'm not really worried that commercial success is going to in some way - we're already past saving, you know what I mean? It's too late for us"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"I've studied various schools of thought... I acknowledge that some Muslims consider music prohibited, but I've found a lot of evidence from the life of the Prophet to show that he allowed certainly, but even encouraged, music at certain times"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"I became alienated from this religious upbringing, and started making music. I wanted to be a big star. All those things I saw in the films and on the media took hold of me, and perhaps I thought this was my god: the goal of making money"

Cat Stevens, Musician

"Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"For my part, if I consider poetry as an object, I maintain that it is born of the necessity of adding a vocal sound (speech) to the hammering of the first tribal music"

Eugenio Montale, Poet

"Music at times is more like perfume than mathematics"

Gabriel Marcel, Philosopher

"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of"

Gabriel Marcel, Philosopher

"I would love to continue in music, with writing... but I am not the kind of person who will hang around if I start to become irrelevant. If that happens, I will bow down gracefully, raise my kids, and have a garden. And I am going to let my hair go gray when I am older. I don't need to be blonde when I'm 60!"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"I think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting"

Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher

"The main challenge for electronic music is to keep a human touch behind the machines"

Jean-Michel Jarre, Composer

"I think that music, like any other form of art, has no boundaries. The idea of categorizing music into genres or styles is a marketing tool"

Jean-Michel Jarre, Composer

"I consider music as a universal language that can break down barriers, and through which people can communicate and understand each other"

Jean-Michel Jarre, Composer

"I just want people to listen to my music and feel like they can relate to it and it makes them feel good"

Kesha, Musician

"I married a music legend. I didn't marry a man who was a civilian"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"I learned a lot from Elvis. He taught me about music, art, literature, and culture"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"Music has always been a huge part of my life. It's something that moves me deeply and helps me to connect with my emotions"

Mia Maestro, Actress

"I think that music is a great healer, but it can also be a great divider"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"I think my lyrics are my real gift to music. Without them, I'm just playing a guitar"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place"

Garth Hudson, Musician

"Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable"

David Johansen, Musician

"My favorite type of music to sing would be between R and B and opera"

Stefano Langone, Musician

"I've been here 21 years, and I literally did walk up and down Music Row trying to break into the business. I felt very free to go into any publishing company"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"Country music is just country. It's going to shift around a little bit, doing some different instrumentations, different production styles. But it will always come back to what you heard at the Opry. Nobody wants it to change"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music"

Zac Hanson, Musician

"Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies"

Jamie Murphy, Soldier

"I always did each show for about two years. So if you play the music, it just comes back to me"

Gwen Verdon, Dancer

"I started listening to and playing other music in the '90s. It was after hearing other bands, like Bad Religion, cover Ramones songs that I started to like our songs again"

Dee Dee Ramone, Musician

"I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last"

Midge Ure, Musician

"I am pretty detached from the local music crowd though"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"In the beginning, I was searching for myself in my music. My music was for me. I didn't have the mental room to be conscious of the listener; I wrote to save myself"

Ayumi Hamasaki, Musician

"Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form"

Michael Franti, Musician

"Everyone deserves music"

Michael Franti, Musician

"Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and the whole idea of it, I knew it would be a very lengthy and frustrating process"

Marc Almond, Musician

"My mother played piano so we always had music around the house"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"That's what I so admired about Johnny Cash and June Carter. Their music wasn't a big influence on me. It was their character, their individual styles, what they were like as people. They weren't afraid to stick out"

Shelby Lynne, Musician

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