Music Quotes

"Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior"

"The musician - if he be a good one - finds his own perception prompted by the poet's perception, and he translates the expression of that perception from the terms of poetry into the terms of music"

John Drinkwater, Poet

"Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"Well I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C' which I wrote in 1964 at that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time"

Terry Riley, Composer

"I'll probably be 80 years old and still performing. Music is like fashion, it changes. But some things will always be the same"

Toni Braxton, Musician

"Whatever my recorded output is, it's a reflection of a general love of music"

Pat Metheny, Musician

"Listening is the key to everything good in music"

Pat Metheny, Musician

"I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural way without fuss, and so I look always music, in my home, like books and books and books, choose books and you read the pages, so I do this with music, and I make programs"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"I feel very blessed we can still have a career making music"

Mike McCready, Musician

"We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb"

Mike Curb, Musician

"Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'"

Steve Brown, Musician

"People whose understanding and taste in literature, painting, and music are beyond question are, for the most part, ignorant of what is good or bad art in the theater"

Minnie Maddern Fiske, Actress

"Singing instrumental music is most important because, while you play an instrument, you are singing through the instrument... actually, you are singing inside"

Ali Akbar Khan, Musician

"I'm very flower-like. I love classical music. I go to ballet and I cry. There's nothing so beautiful"

Michael Gambon, Actor

"The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced"

Kenny G, Musician

"My sense of divine brings with it a strange sound of music with its glories, a marvellous melody sounding like a multitude of flutes"

Paul Twitchell, Celebrity

"Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language, or music without atmosphere"

James Martineau, Philosopher

"The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money"

Steve Brown, Musician

"It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail"

Steve Brown, Musician

"I feel like a lot of the fundamental material, I've assimilated. So now the question is: Am I going to really get into my spiritual inheritance of music and really develop my abilities?"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"I don't live in as much fear as I used to. I'm not afraid of the music business. Life is too damn short. I know what's important, and the tasks are very clear"

Kathy Mattea, Musician

"If music became extinct now, I don't know what I'd be good for"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"If New Orleans is allowed to die, a crucial part of the world's music heritage will disappear"

Ray Davies, Musician

"I'll have the music, and then I'll just turn the microphone on, press Play and Record and sing. And whatever comes out ends up being the melody"

Phil Collins, Musician

"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"I don't like all of the music to be serious and deadly"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"Music is the one part of the entertainment business where you can't fool anybody into buying a record"

Nile Rodgers, Musician

"Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that"

John Fahey, Musician

"I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like"

Otis Blackwell, Musician

"Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old"

Steve Hackett, Writer

"I was always drawn to Broadway musicals, and obviously composers like Gershwin, Rodgers, Berlin and Porter were writing music that I found wildly impressive"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another"

Kate Smith, Musician

"Music stops you from thinking"

Peter Weir, Director

"Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music"

Pat Boone, Musician

"Every now and then, a lot of bands doing the same kind of music will organically sprout up at once"

Kathy Valentine, Musician

"What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

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