Music Quotes

"Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful"

"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved"

Roberta Flack, Musician

"My thing is music, period"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"I come from a pop background, but I'm also a Puerto Rican and I do feel this music. My approach to salsa is a humble one, and I defy anybody to prove that I'm faking it"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does is their whole life. That comes through in Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Willie Nelson. There is no separating their life from their music"

Lyle Lovett, Musician

"I just prefer instrumental. I don't need to hear what other people are singing. And if I need music as a backdrop to work or to think, I need to have that part of the brain clear - I don't need people feeding their fantasies into my vision"

Lydia Lunch, Musician

"Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it"

Shania Twain, Musician

"Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music"

James Iha, Musician

"But, yeah, as far as Asian Americans go, I hope they know they can look at me and see that they can do music on their own, within a band or just on their own, and not feel like there's any barriers. I've never felt any particular barriers myself, being who I am"

James Iha, Musician

"Music in general is looking for something new overall"

Les Claypool, Musician

"I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the 'honesty' of the story"

Chris Ware, Artist

"Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at"

Kevin Rollins, Businessman

"I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson"

Kaley Cuoco, Actress

"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much the music, but the spirit"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure"

Herb Alpert, Musician

"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult"

Beth Gibbons, Musician

"I'm playin' music for a certain type of person. Fortunately, there are more and more of us. At least there are more comin' to see me than there were 30 years ago or so"

Mose Allison, Musician

"The music industry is saying, This is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty"

Emanuel Ax, Musician

"The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens"

Eduard Hanslick, Writer

"I've heard some tunes in recent years that were pretty close to that same idea. The idea was you turn on the radio and you want to hear some music and up comes a commercial"

Mose Allison, Musician

"A lot of exercise is mindless; you can have music or the radio on and not be aware. But if you're aware in anything you do - and it doesn't have to be yoga - it changes you. Being present changes you"

Mariel Hemingway, Actress

"Most music that you hear is in synch with itself. We were experimenting with the music falling out of synch with itself and even though it is out of synch you mind can still understand what it is meant to be doing"

Wayne Coyne, Musician

"We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life"

Levon Helm, Musician

"My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home"

Levon Helm, Musician

"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out"

Levon Helm, Musician

"Music can also be a sensual pleasure, like eating food or sex. But its highest vibration for me is that point of taking us to a real understanding of something in our nature which we can very rarely get at. It is a spiritual state of oneness"

Terry Riley, Composer

"We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you"

Charles Kelley, Musician

"Music is my first love"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons"

Jerome Isaac Friedman, Physicist

"When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything"

Carla Bley, Musician

"There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all"

Carla Bley, Musician

"It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

"I like going to New York. I like the galleries and the theatre and the restaurants and bars and music. I think that city is more alive than Los Angeles"

Sara Gilbert, Actress

"The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute"

Samuel George Morton, Scientist

"Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing"

Rod Stewart, Musician

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