Music Quotes

"I would find myself, not necessarily always assigning these little bits of music for here or there, but all of a sudden something would fall into place and it would be exactly that"

William Bolcom, Composer

"Jazz is not the kind of music you are going to learn to play in three or four years or that you can just get because you have some talent for music"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"Music is an escape for me"

Tom Scholz, Musician

"We all write the music, and then Mark and Tom write the lyrics"

Travis Barker, Musician

"I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you"

Tom Verlaine, Musician

"I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"I mean as long as I have been doing music I know I am only 30% of what I could be and want to be"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"My mother had to explain that one couldn't compose a Liszt rhapsody because it was a piece of music that Liszt himself had composed"

Sergei Prokofiev, Composer

"You know, as you compose music, you're just off in your own world. You have no idea where reality is, so to have an idea of what people think is pretty hard"

Roy Lichtenstein, Artist

"I slowly started to drift back into music again. I finally got the call from John... about getting the band back together again. It was so out of the blue. I almost thought that the moment had passed"

Roger Andrew Taylor, Musician

"I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"Any good music must be an innovation"

Les Baxter, Musician

"My mother and father are very involved with music. It's completely part of their soul"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"I hope they see the genuine side of me, of my music, of my voice. I hope that they feel me. I hope that what I sing and what I say really gets across to the viewer because everything that comes out is true"

Stefano Langone, Musician

"I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour"

Vince Neil, Musician

"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material"

Tennessee Ernie Ford, Musician

"My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York"

Debra Wilson, Comedian

"I didn't know much about him, and I wasn't a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didn't know a lot about him"

Joaquin Phoenix, Actor

"I use rock and jazz and blues rhythms because I love that music. I hope my poetry has a relationship with good-time rock'n roll"

Adrian Mitchell, Poet

"Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited"

Michael Apted, Director

"Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"Music is a performance and needs the audience"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it"

Michael Tippett, Composer

"So many schools have cut the music classes out of their curriculum. We're trying to fill that gap by teaching the teachers how to educate the kids about their musical heritage"

Margaret Whiting, Musician

"When the Domaine Musical started up, I wasn't part of it. They were the major players in contemporary music at that time, braodcasting old and new composers' work. And I wasn't one of them"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"I don't care much about music. What I like is sounds"

Dizzy Gillespie, Musician

"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"

Liam Gallagher, Musician

"It's very demanding to make up your own music"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"I love Indian music very much, but I haven't studied that specifically"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be some jazz"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"Music is extremely intuitive, which acting too in a different way"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"I agree with you about the music of today. It lacks style and emotion"

Vinnie Vincent, Musician

"Mozart's music is like an X-ray of your soul - it shows what is there, and what isn't"

Isaac Stern, Musician

"Like Jermaine was saying, it's a beautiful day, and we're just glad all of this is behind us. We can go on with our lives. And Michael can go on with his life and do what he does best, and that's making good music, making his fans happy, people happy all over the world"

Tito Jackson, Musician

"Music is a language, you see, a universal language"

Sun Ra, Musician

"I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what it would be like to do something like that, but use my lyrics and my kind of style"

Marc Almond, Musician

"What we ask of music, first and last, is that it communicate experience - experience of all kinds, vital and profound at its greatest, amusing or entertaining at another level"

Roger Sessions, Composer

"I have sometimes been told that my music is 'difficult' for the listener"

Roger Sessions, Composer

"For me the ideal date would be to drink wine in the backyard under the stars, listen to music and just talk. Then we'd eat steak and, later, dessert. If all went as planned, we'd save some of the dessert and play with it while making out"

Karen McDougal, Model

"The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me"

June Allyson, Actress

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