Music Quotes

"I spend a lot of time copying saxophone players and trumpet players. Not to say that it is not important to listen to guitar players, but there's so much music out there and so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument"

Bill Frisell, Musician

"I was born first to music. But I went into acting because my father knew so much about music he intimidated me. So, I picked an art form, he knew nothing about. So I could be my own man"

Michael Moriarty, Actor

"I'm starting to feel like so much of rock music is derivative and boring"

Mary Timony, Musician

"My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads"

Pia Toscano, Musician

"When the script was written, it was sent to me with asterisks marking where he felt a song would be appropriate. Before the film was shot, the score was written. I made a demo of it, so they lived with the music as they were making the film"

Alan Price, Musician

"I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss"

Georg Solti, Musician

"I always wanted to play music and have it be my career and knew this by the age of 12"

Johnny Winter, Musician

"The type of music that I love to sing would have to be more bluesy and jazzy and more soul-like 'cause I love to belt when it comes to singing, so I guess bigger songs are what I lean more towards"

Thia Megia, Musician

"When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it"

Ethan Coen, Director

"Using music to promote hate seems to be the bastardisation of music to me"

Chris Lowe, Musician

"The BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience. Then we licensed the album to EMI"

Georgie Fame, Musician

"Some people think its just fun and games and others don't know how much I pushed to get here. They have to be in my shoes, but by listening to my music they can find out"

Chingy, Musician

"Music has brought me some of the highest moments of my life. I don't even hear the music. I don't even hear the notes. I'm not aware that someone has turned on a tape machine - I'm in another world"

Jane Seymour, Actress

"All old music was modern once, and much more of the music of yesterday already sounds more old-fashioned than works which were written three centuries ago"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"I was rather disappointed, because the one thing I wanted to gain from that opportunity was to add something to his music, and have him add something to mine"

Michael Nyman, Composer

"A friend of mine once told me that I can't screw up when I play my own music. I also take voice lessons, play other peoples' songs out of music books, and occasionally figure out how to play other people's music from records. This keeps my ears, fingers, and mind working"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"I was born and trained to communicate music, just as the sons were born and trained to hunt, and I was lucky to have grown up in Hungary, a country that lives and breathes music-that has a passionate belief in the power of music as a celebration of life"

Georg Solti, Musician

"English music is white - it evades everything"

Edward Elgar, Composer

"A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto"

Scott Speedman, Actor

"But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination"

Diana Krall, Musician

"I think the idea is now for blacks to write about the history of our music. It's time for that, because whites have been doing it all the time. It's time for us to do it ourselves and tell it like it is"

Dizzy Gillespie, Musician

"I'm all for sharing music, but when people can download a whole record and pay nothing for it and then they share it with 100,000 other people, it's breaking down the whole business"

Richie Sambora, Musician

"I guess music, particularly the blues, is the only form of schizophrenia that has organised itself into being both legal and beneficial to society"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"That I can't relate to today's music or morals doesn't make either necessarily bad. Just different. I leave the judgements to others"

Perry Como, Musician

"My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil"

Ray Charles, Musician

"I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener"

Arvo Part, Composer

"I believe honesty comes across in music because for people that music isn't just something to dance to. For people for whom music is something that they feel, they understand what I'm talking about"

Willa Ford, Musician

"I love music and I enjoy creating sounds. I got into making music when I was a child, starting with the spoons and the koto before moving onto the piano"

Tobe Hooper, Director

"When we started making electronic music I imagined that the reaction we got from the rock musicians must have been similar to the one the beat groups got from people like my dad"

Trevor Horn, Musician

"I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it"

Diana Krall, Musician

"When recordings replaced concerts as the dominant mode of hearing music, our conception of the nature of performance and of music itself was altered"

Charles Rosen, Musician

"That's what music has always been to me: a feel. I've listened to the Stones many times and it still makes me have that feeling of joy every time. They are still around and put on a really exciting show. We also give it 120 percent"

Mike McCready, Musician

"Since the age of 12, all my musical thinking has been influenced by Afro-American music"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt"

Alexis Korner, Musician

"When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet"

Erich Leinsdorf, Celebrity

"If I would have listened, if I would have understood diabetes like I understood music, maybe these things wouldn't have happened"

Marvin Isley, Musician

"I miss the 80's as well, it was a truly great decade for music"

Vinnie Vincent, Musician

"The way I create music is maybe like a painting, to compose in a more visual way. Basically it's the music that I want to hear- that's my inspiration and bottom line. I just try to get ideas from books, movies, paintings"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"I still don't know how to read music"

Richard Manuel, Musician

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