Music Quotes

"When it came to the music that we produced, I am pretty happy with what we did"

"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning"

Arvo Part, Composer

"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before"

Leonard Bernstein, Composer

"I'm doing music, and we both want to do some drama"

Kel Mitchell, Actor

"When I have sat at home with this God-given talent for music for a long time, somebody approaches me out of the blue and asks me to play for them. It's almost as though there's a force somewhere which is saying 'no sittin' around, out you go!"

Jeremy Spencer, Musician

"Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor"

Ray Charles, Musician

"For me it was really important to get the essence out of the music for the story and not, sort of, press the music into the service of the whimsical telling of it"

Graeme Murphy, Dancer

"Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind"

Gioachino Rossini, Composer

"Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music"

Percy Heath, Musician

"All good music, whatever its date, is ageless - as alive and significant today as it was when it was written"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music"

Nick Cave, Musician

"I thought people cared about music in a deep way, so I was writing to that spirit in people and in myself. It was me, thinking I knew what was up. Youth, who else can change the world?"

Kevin Eubanks, Musician

"The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise"

Kenny G, Musician

"You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor"

Alfredo Kraus, Musician

"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future"

Wayne Kramer

"My favorite type of music to sing is country, and my favorite type of music to listen to is country"

Scotty McCreery, Musician

"What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by"

Ozzy Osbourne, Musician

"My parents discussed singing every night over the dinner table; I had a tremendous music education"

Renee Fleming, Musician

"When you leave the planet, you leave music behind"

Alex Van Halen, Musician

"In the music industry, you meet some not very nice people, some very strange characters"

Midge Ure, Musician

"There's a certain groove you pick that makes the music flow, and when you have it it's in your pocket. It's the feeling behind the rhythm... to me, the hardest thing to strive for is that feeling, behind the groove"

Max Weinberg, Musician

"In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living"

Mark Edwards, Celebrity

"Jazz is a music of great achievements but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz"

Marc Ribot, Musician

"It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to"

Will Oldham, Musician

"I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit"

Yehudi Menuhin, Musician

"Don't worry about what others say about your music. Pursue whatever you are hearing... but if everybody really hates your music maybe you could try some different approaches"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"I am really into '70s music, like The Rolling Stones, The Doors and what not"

Danny Masterson, Actor

"Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do"

John Oates, Musician

"If it wasn't for music, I doubt whether we'd be friends"

John Oates, Musician

"I love the music, I love the times, so to me that was exciting personally just to play something that starts in 1986 with graduating high school, we've got a great soundtrack in the pilot"

Will Estes, Actor

"The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be"

Jack Black, Actor

"Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great"

Ikue Mori, Musician

"Jazz music is to be played sweet, soft, plenty rhythm"

Jelly Roll Morton, Musician

"Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world"

Giuseppe Mazzini, Activist

"Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played"

Dave Lombardo, Musician

"The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit"

Tom Petty, Musician

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music"

Tom Petty, Musician

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you"

Shania Twain, Musician

"The director's job should give you a sense of music without drawing attention to itself"

Taylor Hackford, Director

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