Music Quotes: Melodies of Inspiration (Page 47)

"I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild"

"If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music"

"Gay nightclubs offer better dance music"

"I'm very interested, for instance, in music in education - getting young people not only to listen to, but participate in the music that I write. I consider this one of the most vital aspects of my work"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I don't see how they can with most of my pieces, but I think it's unfortunate that they can through familiarity with flashy performances of a great deal of other music"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water"

Ray Charles, Musician

"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony"

Benjamin Britten, Composer

"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing"

Bryan Ferry, Musician

"With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish"

Vince Gill, Musician

"No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my music"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"The music is the shining path over which the poet travels to bring his song to the world"

Lotte Lehmann, Musician

"But to me the actual sound of the words is all important; I feel always that the words complete the music and must never be swallowed up in it"

Lotte Lehmann, Musician

"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"They all knew my name, but no one heard the music - I didn't look the same"

Ricky Nelson, Musician

"If peace only had the music and pageantry of war, there'd be no wars"

Sophie Kerr, Writer

"Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle"

Mike Watt, Musician

"To me, a sex scene in a movie generally means a gratuitous scene that doesn't serve the story but gives a kind of excuse - we've got these two actors, we want to see them naked, so let's bring in the music and the soft light"

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

"I think that what is important is that the music be honest and direct and that it is relevant to today. I think music needs to be of its time and speak to that time"

Dave Holland, Musician

"You have a wine tasting of different years, and we're sort of doing that with our music, giving them a taste of what Journey used to be like"

Jonathan Cain, Musician

"I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time"

Jim Varney, Actor

"In his day, the audience was well aware of the music, of the classical beat"

Nusrat F. A. Khan

"I have tried to make the music a bit easier for them to understand"

Nusrat F. A. Khan

"The world I was born into was one filled with music"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"Saxophone is one thing, and music is another"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society"

Sun Ra, Musician

"When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"Musicians own music because music owns them"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"When you are listening to music it is better to cover your eyes than your ears"

Jose Bergaman

"You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"I hear music as narrative"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games"

J Allard, Scientist

"I'm passionately involved in life: I love its change, its color, its movement. To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle"

Arthur Rubinstein, Musician

"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory"

Ray Charles, Musician

"I love making music, though. I love playing"

Pharrell Williams, Musician

"I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music"

Merle Travis, Musician

"The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage"

Rick Wakeman, Musician

"In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did"

Jerry Hunt, Composer

"I played, like, a year of piano until I learned the Pink Panther theme. That was my goal. Once I was good enough, I quit. Now my music has to have some rock"

Jack Black, Actor

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