Music Quotes

"I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work"

Wyclef Jean, Musician

"I played piano, I learned a lot about music"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"I started studying music at the age of five and a half. My older sister was taking piano lessons. When her teacher left our apartment, I would get up on the piano bench and start picking out the notes that were part of my sister's lessons"

Marvin Hamlisch, Composer

"I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty"

Louise Jameson, Actress

"Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"I would think, to me, growing up in the south, growing up with all the gospel music, singing in the church and having that rhythm and blues - the blues background was my big inspiration"

Jackie DeShannon, Musician

"I dress up a certain way because I respect the music"

Wynton Marsalis, Musician

"When I sang that song, I felt it was almost as if some force had moved into my body. Things like that have only happened to me singing jazz. It doesn't happen when singing pop. I get so deeply into the music, it feels like I've become someone else"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"I have to admit, I do not listen to much rock music"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"For me, one I love the 80's, I love 80's music, I'm sort of a baby of the 80's, I grew up in the 80s"

Will Estes, Actor

"If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece"

Peter Maxwell Davies, Composer

"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"I'm actually not an exhibitionist at all. When you get onstage and you get under the lights playing music, I feel more hidden and more alone than anywhere else. You hide behind your music and let your emotions come out through the music"

Tim McGraw, Musician

"My dad took me to all the best rock and punk shows when I was growing up and music has always been a part of my life. So I'm very interested in the music scene and I suppose that's why I've ended up going out with musicians. Dave Pirner is still one of my best friends"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"What's really good is African drum music"

Fiona Apple, Musician

"But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"I think that generally music should be a positive thing, I like Bob Marley's attitude: he said that his goal in life was to single handedly fight all the evil in the world with nothing but music, and when he went to a place he didn't go to play, he went to conquer"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"People think that it's their sovereign right to download music and not have to pay for it"

Johnny Kelly, Musician

"Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"This music has been around since before the beard on Moses. I happed to do it very well and I happen to have a lot of groovy songs that I know people are going to dig. I know more about it than you do"

George Thorogood, Musician

"I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know"

Teena Marie, Musician

"Billie Holiday I never met, but I love her music"

Nichelle Nichols, Musician

"Right, different generations come along, and discover the music, I think"

Wanda Jackson, Musician

"I learned how music works dealing with Jermaine Dupri, and I learned how image works dealing with Puff Daddy"

Usher Raymond, Musician

"Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"I wanted to feel like an artist for once in my life. I wanted to use other producers for respect, to let them know that I listen to other people's music and that I'm just not out here on my own page"

Jermaine Dupri, Musician

"I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me"

Neneh Cherry, Musician

"And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands"

James Young, Musician

"If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Music should be your escape"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"Hip-hop is definitely not what it used to be, which was creative, original music"

Missy Elliot, Musician

"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"I've always been interested in shaping music in odd ways, with odd riffs and that's been probably something that I've continued on with my studies with improvisation as I'm working with people"

Roscoe Mitchell, Composer

"It's unfortunate that music has become such big business"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"Disco music in the '70s was just a call to go wild and party and dance with no thought or conscience or regard for tomorrow"

Martha Reeves, Musician

"Having this other career in music made me work harder as an actress. It's made me more professional"

Mandy Moore, Musician

"But those musics do not address the larger kind of architecture in time that classical music does, whatever each one of us knows that classical music must mean"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register"

Steve Lacy, Musician

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