Music Quotes

"I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good"

"'The bigtime for you is just around the corner.' They told me that first in 1952 - boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the bigtime in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm gonna pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo"

Ronnie Hawkins, Musician

"I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home"

Quincy Jones, Musician

"I'd love to do my own music for sure. I'd love to have a band"

Selena Gomez, Actress

"I think what every skater dreams of is not only skating the best program they can possibly skate, but, y'know, having the crowd roar at the end, and it was just so loud I couldn't even hear my music"

Sarah Hughes, Athlete

"It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music"

Tom Petty, Musician

"I feel very comfortable shooting music, and I think you can see that"

Taylor Hackford, Director

"Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours"

Phil Collins, Musician

"The fact is that we take music very seriously"

Peter Garrett, Musician

"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment"

Randy Castillo, Musician

"There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable"

Pauley Perrette, Actress

"Songwriting is different from music, although I don't deny now that it would be nice to have a little more background in music theory"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung"

P. J. Harvey, Musician

"I never watch TV. I'm a Radio Four addict. I love listening to music too"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something-it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that"

Nick Rhodes, Musician

"Style has always been very important to us. We grew up in the '70s. Music was glam rock, punk rock and a very stylish movement"

Nick Rhodes, Musician

"I have been tied up with music for about as long as I can remember. By the time I was four I was picking out little tunes my mother played on the reed organ in the living-room"

Mary Lou Williams, Musician

"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art"

Charles Rosen, Musician

"I just can't read music"

Kate Smith, Musician

"It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry"

Martina McBride, Musician

"I feel that it's the music, not anything else, that matters"

Brandon Cruz, Actor

"I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with"

Bonnie Raitt, Musician

"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"It was my first big relationship and it was just very abusive. I wouldn't give him the credit of naming him, if he ever reads this. But he was older, in the music business - or so he said"

Lisa Snowdon, Model

"A painter paints his pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. We provide the music, and you provide the silence"

Leopold Stokowski, Musician

"But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"All he wants to do is practice and that's all he does, all day long. That's what it takes if you want to change the face of music. You've gotta be committed to it"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

"I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"It was 100 percent music. There was no ego involved, no attitudes, no black and white, it was pure music"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music"

Kip Winger, Musician

"One of the things that's influenced me musically was my experience at Brown University. I was surrounded by musicians that I really admired, and felt challenged to come up with music, lyrics, and recordings that stood up to the expectations of those musicians and myself"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"I grew up listening to a lot of soul music, and a lot of folk music"

Katey Sagal, Athlete

"From the minute I heard music I knew why I was born"

Julie Gold, Musician

"I've always said that music is like literature"

Jose Carreras, Musician

"It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything"

Terry Southern, Writer

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults"

John Eaton, Politician

"We do a lot of light classical programming with that, too... obviously... a lot of Tchaikovsky music, Grieg, things like that which have become less classical with classical concerts"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"Although we are being presented in Carnegie Hall, we have to furnish a budget for our guest stars, and for the music writing - which is a huge budget in any orchestra that plays popular music"

Skitch Henderson, Musician

"Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music"

Stanley Crouch, Critic

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