Music Quotes

"Cage's Music of Changes was a further indication that the arts in general were beginning to consciously deal with the "given" material and, to varying degrees, liberating them from the inherited, functional concepts of control"

Earle Brown, Composer

"I've always recorded the same way. I put down as many ideas as I have, then strip them away at the mixdown. It's better to have too much music than not enough"

Dave Navarro, Musician

"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people"

Brownie McGhee, Musician

"We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I consider the Stooges to be pop music"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"I am a bit more of a whore with my acting than I am with my music. I am not a whore with my music"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"Music tells no truths"

Philip James Bailey, Poet

"It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"I mean, you go to the internet and you can see all these conversations and arguments that our fans have about our music and that's wonderful to know, that people would take the time to be that involved"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"We knew that we wanted to play heavy music but I hadn't gotten into melody and things like that"

Adam Rich, Actor

"I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it"

Ace Frehley, Musician

"My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music"

Ben Harper, Musician

"I thank the Creator of the universe to have discovered the discipline of music was the greatest gift that I could have been given, the possibility to be a student working in the world"

Anthony Braxton, Musician

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot"

John Fahey, Musician

"I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head"

John Fahey, Musician

"Too many of these writers in the music papers, they are misunderstanding everything. The disco sound is not art or anything so serious"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"There are some people, by the way, that associate a certain amount of visualization with the performance of music. Those are people that really are not centrally concerned only with music, the traditional things"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"When I recorded Contra la Puerta, I never really thought out doing the material live. Mostly because I haven't really seen any electronic music performed live in an interesting way"

Jim Coleman, Actor

"Commercial music, for the most part, is popular music and you always have to keep that in mind"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music"

Kelly Osbourne, Actress

"The first year I started in San Francisco, there was an American work on every program and there's been a lot of music by living composers and gradually that was part of the process of getting the audience really to trust me"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"It's kind of scary sometimes, I've seen this a lot in Asia. Children are given music lessons, very intensively I might add and involving great technical expertise sometimes, but you can tell that they have been told only to play happy pleasant music"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"I ended up turning down a full scholarship of music at the conservatory to pay to go to cooking school"

Emeril Lagasse, Celebrity

"To me, the noise of a threshing machine is better music than a lot of music I hear nowadays. I took a man's place in the threshing crew when I was only 14 years old"

Clyde Tombaugh, Scientist

"But for the children of the poorest people we're stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. We're not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child"

Jonathan Kozol, Writer

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls"

Ingmar Bergman, Director

"I was interested in both Western and Indian classical music"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"Black music has increased my enjoyment of what I do. It has increased my range, my ability to reach into myself and accept myself"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last"

David Amram, Composer

"Without music, life is a journey through a desert"

Pat Conroy, Writer

"I'm always interested in mixing technology and music. You know, maybe I'll have a MIDI bass pickup at some point, I don't really think that's the direction I would want to go"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"It's better for the listener to interpret their own meanings to the music"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs, those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics"

Jacob Lusk, Musician

"I'm really fed up with all the credibility talk. A lot of times it seems to be more important than the music. Well, I guess for a lot of people it actually is. We don't care for credibility"

Mark McGrath, Musician

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