Music Quotes

Small: In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and sta
"In our music, in our everyday life, there are so many negative things. Why not have something positive and stamp it with blackness?"
Jamie Foxx, Actor
Small: I love music and I love to dance
"I love music and I love to dance"
Jami Gertz, Actress
Small: You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They dont want anything to be complicated. T
"You know how it is with drawers and labels in the music business. They don't want anything to be complicated. They just want it simple, as simple as possible"
Mark McGrath, Musician
Small: The greatest music is made for love, not for money
"The greatest music is made for love, not for money"
Greg Lake, Musician
Small: In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music
"In America, life is introverted, self-absorbed - and so is their music"
Chris Barber, Musician
Small: I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz mus
"I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves as jazz musicians, but thinking about themselves as good human beings, striving to be a great person and maybe they'll become a great musician"
Charlie Haden, Musician
Small: I have music inside me and Im very lucky to be able to play music and thats the way that I try to do it
"I have music inside me and I'm very lucky to be able to play music and that's the way that I try to do it"
Charlie Haden, Musician
Small: I wasnt really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music
"I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music"
Billy Sherwood, Musician
Small: I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. Theres no other c
"I love music, I love all kinds of music, particularly jazz. Jazz is an extension of America. There's no other country in the world that could have produced jazz"
Jon Huntsman, Jr., Politician
Small: Taking employment out of the country - now thats taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: product
"Taking employment out of the country - now that's taking away jobs. These shows employ a lot of people: production, post-production, music supervisors, camera people. A hundred people or more"
Corbin Bernsen, Actor
Small: I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful
Christina Milian
"I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful"
Christina Milian, Musician
Small: I found a certain kind of music congenial to me it never occurred to me to write music that was academically a
"I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable"
Carlisle Floyd, Composer
Small: I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time Im making music
"I walk my dogs. I garden a little. I play a bit of tennis. Basically when I have spare time I'm making music"
Bill Mumy, Actor
Small: Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy
"Dancing, apart to music with a beat, is my legacy"
Chubby Checker, Musician
Small: Im recording an album. Its sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music
Christy Romano
"I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music"
Christy Romano, Actress
Small: Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much
"Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much"
Derek Bailey, Musician
Small: Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute
"Seeing unhappiness in the marriage of friends, I was content to have chosen music and laughter as a substitute for a husband"
Elsa Maxwell, Writer
Small: Youre just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically y
"You're just playing, playing, playing, and then an image or something will come into your mind, and basically you're just narrating it with music, letting it move along"
Edie Brickell, Musician
Small: Napsters only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napsters users engage i
"Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No"
David Boies, Lawyer
Small: I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me l
"I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams)"
Gary Lucas
Small: My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read musi
"My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to read music first, so I took lessons for six years. I thank God that he made me take those lessons, because it taught me a tremendous amount"
Brian Austin Green, Actor
Small: Im sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music.
"I'm sometimes critical about other artists who come out with something different until maybe I hear the music. If the music is there, then they did their job, and I'll enjoy the CD"
Brian Austin Green, Actor
Small: But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a h
"But, of course, one relies on the everyday people who just simply like your music, for whom you may not be a hobby but they enjoy being in your presence at a concert"
Cliff Richard, Musician
Small: The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situa
"The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control"
Bill Dixon, Musician
Small: If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of pa
"If I had money, I would like to get an old building, have music performances, do lithographs, have shows of paintings, and do those things that I'm interested in doing"
Bill Dixon, Musician
Small: I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart
"I do read music, but I prefer playing from the heart"
Clarence Clemons, Musician
Small: You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that theyve never heard
Casey Abrams
"You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard"
Casey Abrams, Musician
Small: My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love al
Casey Abrams
"My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz"
Casey Abrams, Musician
Small: Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I use
"Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music"
Bobby Vinton, Musician
Small: Theres a moment of recognition. Its that white-light kind of stuff that just works. I love that. And you know
"There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just "works." I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book"
Barbara Kruger, Artist
Small: I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give
"I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who aren't exposed to creative music"
Charlie Haden, Musician
Small: Bluegrass is wonderful music. Im glad I originated it
"Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it"
Bill Monroe, Musician
Small: Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people
"Bluegrass has brought more people together and made more friends than any music in the world. You meet people at festivals and renew acquaintances year after year"
Bill Monroe, Musician
Small: Music should always be an adventure
"Music should always be an adventure"
Coleman Hawkins, Musician
Small: Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there
Christina Milian
"Being in the music business is a totally different industry right there"
Christina Milian, Musician
Small: I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very
"I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater"
Carlisle Floyd, Composer
Small: Im narrating the television series Biography. Im still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have a
"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project"
Bill Mumy, Actor
Small: Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charle
Dave Haywood
"Charles and I are from Augusta, Ga. - so we come from James Brown territory, soul music and Motown. And Charles has always had a lot of Southern rock in there as well"
Dave Haywood, Musician
Small: Well, I didnt really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with.
"Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle"
Daisy Berkowitz, Musician
Small: My outlet is my music, and its been this way since I was 4 years old
"My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old"
Chubby Checker, Musician
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