Music Quotes

"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

"We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn something about Russian music and about Russian people and to see things apart from being a tourist"

Marc Almond, Musician

"Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the field you are writing about, but writing is what you are doing"

Virgil Thomson, Composer

"Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature"

Michael P. Anderson, Astronaut

"There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"To be alive, to be able to see, to walk, to have houses, music, paintings - it's all a miracle. I have adopted the technique of living life miracle to miracle"

Arthur Rubinstein, Musician

"While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"There's still not as many women in music as men, and I don't really know why. I don't have the answers. I do wish there were more women that played music"

Mary Timony, Musician

"I do dance music, and I can be pretty camp myself from time to time"

Kylie Minogue, Musician

"We're in the dark ages if J-Lo can have a music career because of her ass. And let's face it, that's it"

Jack Black, Actor

"There aren't reasons why you like this song or this piece of music, or don't like it. It's just, it's either right or wrong, you know?"

Ethan Coen, Director

"Music is neither old nor modern: it is either good or bad music, and the date at which it was written has no significance whatever"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs"

Wayne Kramer

"Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested"

Ian MacKaye, Musician

"These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words"

Felix Mendelssohn, Composer

"Now the big question is if you are going to go to all the trouble of setting an opera and making all that music and so on, there's got to be some aspect that you can do in an opera that really makes it worth while"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too"

Vaughn Monroe, Musician

"Everybody was on the same page. Nobody has really gone out there on a different musical journey. When we got back together again, we all wanted to do the same kind of music"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"Not only did I get an A in music but I got an A in ladies"

R. Kelly, Musician

"One thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather than a piece of product"

Peter Gabriel, Musician

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it"

Aaron Carter, Musician

"I never learned to read music"

Norman Spinrad, Author

"That's one of the problems with making music your business, it becomes a business. You're no longer just this kid who is a fan and going to see every show. I've been in a bar every night for the last 15 years. Going to see bands for me is work"

Mojo Nixon, Musician

"The music stuff has been very difficult. It's got to be right, and even then, it better be on key"

Michael Winslow, Actor

"I just love where I am right now in my career. I love country music. I don't ever feel restricted by the genre. I've been able to have a solid career that we've built one step at a time and a family. I know that I'm in a good place"

Martina McBride, Musician

"Pop music should be about young people"

Gary Kemp, Musician

"It's a little bit more like I want to give this to the people that are really into it first - I don't have a lot of desire to be like Bon Jovi or something like that, I really want to concentrate on the music"

Kip Winger, Musician

"Poetry teaches us music, metaphor, condensation and specificity"

Walter Mosley, Novelist

"For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz"

John Eaton, Politician

"If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part"

John Eaton, Politician

"His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married"

John Corry

"I think it took me a while to convince Nashville that what I do is genuine and my heart's in the right place, and I love country music"

Keith Urban, Musician

"I think that one of Elvis' charms was that he could sing almost any kind of music. I am sure that in his heart, which I don't know what was there, but just from his singing I could feel that he was very partial to gospel music"

Patti Page, Musician

"I was listening to all those lyrics and trying to take in everything that was happening. I was completely excited. It was one of the greatest times that I had listening to music"

Jay McShann, Musician

"In fact, jazz has such a great feeling and great emotional content that it really doesn't require you to have technical understanding of it. I think you just have to allow your feelings to go with the music and you will find yourself carried along by it fairly quickly"

Dave Holland, Musician

"I have always abhorred the business end of music"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"I also spend a lot of time on political blogs, and music blogs getting things for my radio show"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"That makes classical music work, the ability to improvise"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

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