Music Quotes

"We spent a lot of time on that record with the sound and recorded it on the Paramount sound stage which is this huge room where the sound is reflected but the reflection is so late and comes from so far away that it doesn't blur the music but gives you a room nonetheless"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock"

Kim Deal, Musician

"I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music"

Iris DeMent, Musician

"I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!"

Grey DeLisle, Musician

"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"I was never into smart college boy music"

Gene Ween, Musician

"The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"Music history has flowed under the bridges for many years"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"The music business is very hard on women over 22. You really have to prove yourself every time you make a record. Are you as vibrant as you used to be? Are you as sexy? So I really want to prove that a woman in her 30s can be all those things and more"

Jody Watley, Musician

"We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site"

Jay Chiat, Businessman

"I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"You've got Corey Feldman doing his thing, and the problem is, they're trying to be pop stars. You can't compare Salty to any of the other actors out there playing music"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"This music isn't Top 40, we really stand out from anyone"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"The roots of Cuban music are in my head"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"Cubans are frantic when it comes to appreciating music"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist, and I realized I wanted to go back to the music I fell in love with when I was eight years old"

Emm Gryner, Musician

"Usually, when I do a soundtrack, the music from the movie doesn't have anything to do with me personally. It's music to enhance to the film. My own stuff is more introspective and about what's on going in my head"

Stanley Clarke, Musician

"As far as spiritual influences in Christian music, I would say Crystal Lewis - a lot of her songs especially. The ministry she has through her songs has really hit me"

Stacie Orrico, Musician

"That's because we did not set out to make black music. We set out to make quality music that everyone could enjoy and listen to"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"Pop music allows you to be who you are without having to wear a social uniform or to conform, which some people find impossible to do"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I was very fortunate to be at the vanguard of music video"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony"

Edward Witten, Mathematician

"I'm an artist, and I go in the studio and make my music. And then I'll give it to my dad and he does what he does. And he does, you know, the press, and figuring out shows and whatnot. When it comes to my artistic freedom, he doesn't, like, step on my toes or anything"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar"

Don Johnson, Actor

"Rush has never been a spontaneous group. We may be spontaneous in our writing, we may be spontaneous as individuals in our day to day lives... certainly I think am and always have been, but I think when it comes to Rush and our presentation of our music it's quite controlled"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"I started hitching about the country when I was 16 or 17 years old. I found the music that was played around the country - Irish music - had a particular resonance"

Brendan Gleeson, Actor

"If I'm inspired and music inspires me, then I will continue to play it"

Ben Harper, Musician

"I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi"

Alan Parsons, Musician

"When I'm on tour, I'm in a new city every single night, and the energy and the crowds and the kids and the screaming and them knowing every single word of my music and being onstage is such an energetic feeling with a big payoff"

Hilary Duff, Actress

"Given that there was that era of girl group music and it's still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that's what they thought their audience was"

Lesley Gore, Musician

"You know, they wanted to do a Broadway album and every show was kind of a bomb. There was no music at all"

Les Baxter, Musician

"I write emotional music"

Les Baxter, Musician

"There are people that bring artists to me to look at it and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"My early childhood memories center around this typical American country store and life in a small American town, including 4th of July celebrations marked by fireworks and patriotic music played from a pavilion bandstand"

Frederick Reines, Physicist

"That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music"

David Amram, Composer

"It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music"

Nancy Kerrigan, Athlete

"I supply the music for Vampires, which is a new series that's coming out"

John Entwistle, Musician

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