Music Quotes

"I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to"

"I just loved the guitar when it came along. I loved it. The banjo was something I really liked, but when the guitar came along, to me that was my first love in music"

Doc Watson, Musician

"It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect"

Luciano Berio, Composer

"Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away and every ounce of energy you try to give away as the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play"

Jon English, Musician

"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs"

Rue McClanahan, Actress

"Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

"I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene"

Marc Ribot, Musician

"My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever music I wanted to, and that made me not rebel. I have never touched a drug in my life"

Kelly Brook, Model

"I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop"

John Oates, Musician

"Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"Emotions are the fuel to really move you along - that's the only way you can create music. If you don't feel any emotions, it's not going to happen"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"Touring with King Crimson wasn't a lot of fun for me. I had a lot of equipment, and when I was in improvised music I'd set it up myself, play the gig, and put it all away again"

Jamie Muir

"SDC has a great reputation for putting live music on stage"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"When it all started, record companies - and there were many of them, and this was a good thing - were run by people who loved records, people like Ahmet Ertegun, who ran Atlantic Records, who were record collectors. They got in it because they loved music"

David Crosby, Musician

"If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not once but twice"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music"

Shawn Colvin, Artist

"I think it is the weak and the young and the minorities that you need to look after to get a healthy creative environment - to get a lot of choices, a lot of different styles of music, a lot experimental stuff that everyone else feeds off"

Peter Gabriel, Musician

"The best music of any era lasts well, I think"

Peter Asher, Musician

"I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?"

Scott Stapp, Musician

"People like Howlin' Wolf, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, John Lee Hooker, Nina Simone, Captain Beefheart - all of these artists were what I grew up listening to every day of my life. And there's a very healthy music scene in the west country of England, where I grew up"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man"

Ned Beatty, Actor

"This is something special. You can attempt to have a kind of non-living music"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"If it wasn't for music, I would think that love is mortal"

Mark Helprin, Novelist

"I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media"

Milton Babbitt, Composer

"So, to prepare for the role, I had to take music lessons, talk to wives who had husbands overseas, and carefully study the reactions and mannerisms of a friend who was expecting"

June Allyson, Actress

"I'm thinking in terms of a point of departure, a field of action for performers to express an expressive need of mine which hopefully the context of music would convey"

John Eaton, Politician

"But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world"

John Eaton, Politician

"I'd always been on the giving end of music and creating"

Jessi Colter, Musician

"My favorite type of music to sing and to listen to, you know, rock. It's not always metal, but you know, half the time it is. Metal's cool, you know? Not everybody on 'American Idol' listens to metal"

James Durbin, Musician

"It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story"

James Baldwin, Educator

"Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off"

Howard Stringer, Businessman

"When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"If the pressure is getting to you, whistle. In a barely audible way. It's the best way I know of to let go of tension. Music gets your mind off the situation, and the act of whistling melts the tension out of your body"

Fuzzy Zoeller, Athlete

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