Music Quotes

"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

"Music is for people. The word 'pop' is simply short for popular. It means that people like it. I'm just a normal jerk who happens to make music. As long as my brain and fingers work, I'm cool"

Eddie Van Halen, Musician

"I'd always loved poetry and I'd always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn't thought of putting the two together until around that time"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"I've always just adored music. It's my first love, really. I admire and respect people in the music business. You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can't do that if you're a musician"

Blythe Danner, Actress

"I've never got on with the British press because they've always given me such a hard time. Once they build a band up they just want to do people down. They shouldn't concentrate on the colour of someone's shirt they should listen to the music"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"I don't trawl record shops anymore. I usually hear music in bars or at friends' houses"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"I am not facing the problem of emigration. I want my music to be acknowledged here first of all, in this country: after that, we shall see - perhaps the question will than become urgent"

Alfred Schnittke, Composer

"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career"

Alexander Borodin, Composer

"Music was important. Football was the easy part"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I feel that I want what allows me to reach the largest number of people as possible, and I don't feel ashamed of that. I think I'm the kind of artist that's meant to be on a major label because my music is different"

Jon Crosby, Musician

"With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"Well, because music is my life and music is not work for me"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"My music was typically continental - nothing like, say, The Beatles"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"Serious musicians are finding it harder and harder to have a voice in the world of music these days"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"I've never personally criticized anyone else's music, but I know that the public's real problem is not the music I make but the perception that I play simple music for money only and for the notoriety and to increase my popularity"

Kenny G, Musician

"The band projects just took natural priority. I didn't really have a solo career, just wanted to share the music in another way and to learn more about writing, recording, etcetera"

Ken Hensley, Musician

"You program music with an image and then people are desensitized"

Julie Taymor, Director

"So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music"

James Young, Musician

"But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die"

James Young, Musician

"Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I'm coming up on 40 next year, and after making so many records and doing music for so long, I'm looking for a change and a different perspective. And every now and then, I think I have something I want to say"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things"

Stephen Sprouse, Designer

"The whole path of American music has been so much about the recognition of stylistic diversity, and the recognition of the importance of music which was from one of the vernacular traditions"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"But you know in the contemporary art world, you pose a very interesting conundrum. All sorts of people collect very contemporary art, yet when it comes to the music which is analogous to that sort of art, they are not interested, or perhaps even hostile"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"My father's record collection was full of New Orleans music of all kinds. I used to listen to the radio in New York, and all there was on it at the time was Madonna and Michael Jackson, so it sort of passed me by"

Madeleine Peyroux, Musician

"Music is one of those things that is constantly going in my head all the time. It's sort of like the evolution and creation of doing food, or my philosophy about wine. It's always beating in my head, so it keeps the spirit moving"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"At Bloomington, Indiana, I was invited to listen to music written in quarter tones for four harps and voices. I had to go out to be sick"

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Musician

"Janis Joplin is definitely one of my biggest influences. She taught me how to feel music, and I don't think there's anyone like her that could bring such pain and emotion to a song"

LeAnn Rimes, Musician

"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story"

Kate Smith, Musician

"I think that the jazzy approach that I have is based on the way that I hear music and in the way I play a supporting role to the other people in the band"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?"

Tom Araya, Musician

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