Music Quotes

"I would hate to make music and people love me for something that isn't me"

"I can tell you, dearest friend, that if it became known how much friendship, love and a world of human and spiritual references I have smuggled into these three movements, the adherents of programme music - should there be any left - would go mad with joy"

Alban Berg, Composer

"In every interview I've got to explain something about being white but still being into hip hop. It's gone way beyond the musical aspect of the business. And I'm as critical about music as everybody else is"

Brian Austin Green, Actor

"I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do"

Barbara Sher, Businessman

"The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

"Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music"

Avery Brundage, Athlete

"I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in many different ways. Peter added his own modern notion of funk and his own deep background in classical music"

Arto Lindsay, Musician

"When I was younger, studying classical music, I really had to put in the time. Three hours a day is not even nice - you have to put in six"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"I love my own music"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection"

Alban Berg, Composer

"I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music"

Andy Summers, Musician

"I always felt rock and roll was very, very wholesome music"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"When you don't have a record label and you have been on your own as we have, you can look at all these other ways you can get in touch with other people and get music out there again"

Andy Taylor

"There are so few directors who are musical who appreciate music"

Alex North, Composer

"I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University"

Alan Greenspan, Economist

"The kind of music I like depends very much on my mood"

Annni-Frid Lyngstad

"If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'"

A. R. Ammons, Poet

"In rap music, even though the element of poetry is very strong, so is the element of the drum, the implication of the dance. Without the beat, its commercial value would certainly be more tenuous"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"Music is escapism, it's entertainment"

Andy Taylor

"Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music"

Isaac Stern, Musician

"The one thing that kept our family together was the music. The only thing that our family would share emotionally was to have our dad cry over something the kids did with music"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music"

Isaac Stern, Musician

"Music is like making love: either all or nothing"

Isaac Stern, Musician

"They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music"

Robby Krieger, Musician

"That's one wonderful thing about country music - it shifts, ebbs, and flows stylistically, unlike pop music"

Steven Curtis Chapman, Musician

"I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it"

Vince Neil, Musician

"I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it"

George Benson, Musician

"I think the industry is oblivious to the fact that most people listen to all kinds of stuff. I personally don't know of anyone who listens to only one genre of music. It's vanity because no one does"

Keith Urban, Musician

"Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine"

Barbara Kolb, Composer

"Situation comedies are old-fashioned - they stick to formulas. I resent their music which is old fashioned. I resent the use of a laugh track"

Bill Bixby, Actor

"Let's have the music that will open the door to millions of people... the kind of music that will not make people think only of the song or even of the singer... not music that is confined to the merely personal"

Nelson Eddy, Musician

"In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score"

Ralph Richardson, Actor

"I also like Western classical music and jazz"

Nusrat F. A. Khan

"Today we are in a war against war - music is our power"

Michael Franti, Musician

"Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home"

Michael Franti, Musician

"I use music as a medium to talk to people"

Sun Ra, Musician

"It is hard to describe the thrill of creative joy which the artist feels when the conviction seizes her that at last she has caught the very soul of the character she wishes to portray, in the music and action which reveal it"

Maria Jeritza

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