Music Quotes

"I think that technology has both introduced new sounds but also allowed an increasingly painterly approach to recording music as you can now paint over what you've done and more and more refine an existing performance"

Jerry Harrison, Musician

"They were looking for actors - real actors - who could play instruments. There was a lot of improvisation and scene work involved in addition to the music. The auditions went on for a long time"

Micky Dolenz, Actor

"My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music"

Steve Cropper, Musician

"I was always really into the music rather than the scene"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"I'm one of those firm believers that good music will prevail"

Pras Michel, Musician

"No one should be allowed to make music as if he were made of wood. One must reproduce the musical text exactly, but not play like a stone"

Olivier Messiaen, Composer

"I've always felt that music should be a normal part of the experience that surrounds people"

Morton Gould, Musician

"We've got many different sides of music to us"

John Otto, Musician

"I mean I like pop music, and I like heavy music and, stuff that I like... the band I've signed on to our label right now; they're called The Sounds. They're kind of like a new-wave pop band"

James Iha, Musician

"I'm not a music lover in the sense that I look for something to have on. I've never had that attitude to music"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"I don't think there is much American music"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"A lot of people are going to hate me for saying this, but one of my least favorite kinds of music, or the kind of music that I feel I've so got out of my system, is musicals music"

Guy Pearce, Actor

"Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned"

Martin Freeman, Actor

"I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music"

Kurt Weill, Composer

"It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing"

Gordon Waller, Musician

"I don't think they should regulate the music field. I don't see how they can regulate the arts"

Gordon Lightfoot, Musician

"I was totally involved in Bobby's World from the time we started the idea to sitting with the artists on how he would look, to the script meetings, the music, the lyrics, the songs"

Howie Mandel, Comedian

"Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for songs. I like working with interesting musicians. I like producing records. It's something I will always do"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"Writing music is just something that I was born to do"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for"

Joan Armatrading, Musician

"I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands"

Jason Newsted, Musician

"'I don't want to grow up,' Tom Waits said it. I live it. I put myself in a position to be a kid as long as I want to. I play loud music and scream for a living"

Jason Newsted, Musician

"I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music"

Leif Garrett, Musician

"When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"I wrote music as soon as I knew notation"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"I've made more than 50 records with a wide range of music. I've often veered to check something out"

Gary Burton, Musician

"Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts"

Karolina Kurkova, Model

"When I was a kid, I went through a lot of musical phases, and one was when I'd learn everything that The Beatles ever recorded. After I started drums, I fell in love with their music so much that I just wanted to learn everything"

Eric Carr, Musician

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"The end of all good music is to affect the soul"

Claudio Monteverdi, Composer

"I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have"

Ginger Baker, Musician

"My relationship with Music Row has always been, from my end, optimistic and hopeful that there is more than one way to approach the writing, recording, and marketing of an album"

Deana Carter, Musician

"Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound"

Eduard Hanslick, Writer

"David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music"

Eddie Van Halen, Musician

"When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true"

Montserrat Caballe, Musician

"In music, as I find myself forever saying, things don't get better or worse: they evolve and transform themselves"

Luciano Berio, Composer

"I'm making a record that's half stripped down acoustic which is the way I perform a lot and half of it is very produced. It's really hard to keep music simple but I was trying to keep it simple and focus on one or two instruments and vocals"

Lisa Loeb, Musician

"I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense"

Jerry Wexler, Musician

"The art music of the West has developed through out its history by means of individual geniuses, and out of the soil supporting them; non-Western musicians were born, and grew like the grasses of the field"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"I never listened to country music growing up"

Deana Carter, Musician

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