Music Quotes

"Jazz is people's music, a collectivity"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"The narrative of serial art works more like music than like literature"

Sol LeWitt, Artist

"Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me"

Levon Helm, Musician

"I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them"

Kate Smith, Musician

"What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me"

Luther Allison, Musician

"Music in this film is a very important part"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"I write the music because I can't really write lyrics. But I can write chords like Robin's never heard of. So I provide the music for them to add the lyrics to"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"My life revolves around music and always will. I need to be a part of music and not an observer"

Rick Wakeman, Musician

"The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week"

John Hall

"Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality"

Victoria de los Angeles, Musician

"As long as it's good music, that's what's important"

Tom Araya, Musician

"My brother's been producing rap music and hip-hop for maybe 10 years"

Tina Yothers, Actress

"I love doing the voice of Batman because of the quality of the animation. The music is particularly incredible. Another bonus is getting the opportunity to work with some very respected actors who do not usually do voice work"

Kevin Conroy, Actor

"I'm playin' the music I like"

Mose Allison, Musician

"My singing is my hobby. It's me and my brother. We just enjoy writing music"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days"

Satyajit Ray, Director

"The market didn't define the music; the music defined the market"

Charlie Hunter, Musician

"And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books"

James Weldon Johnson, Poet

"I began the process of recording myself seriously in the fall of 1999. If I could finish an album of my own music, I would. Five years later I am happy to say I have"

Jack Irons, Musician

"Allan had come down wanting to do some sort of crucial music and I'd been involved in so-called Art Music and wanted to explore other areas - we were approaching it in some quite tongue-in-cheek ways and we had a lot of fun - we spent more time laughing than playing music"

Jamie Muir

"Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

"I've got my whole life. There's a lifetime of experience, a lifetime of experiencing the road and the music and different players. It makes me a richer human being. I have a greater source of information to tap into, a wealth of life"

Rita Coolidge, Musician

"I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll"

Mickey Hart, Musician

"It was so wonderful outside that even the wild senselessness of this enormous death, whose music I hear again and again, could not disturb me from my great enjoyment!"

Max Beckmann, Artist

"Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity"

LL Cool J, Musician

"I love painting and music, of course. I don't know nearly as much about them as I know about poetry. I've certainly been influenced by fiction. I was overwhelmed by War and Peace when I read it, and I didn't read it until I was in my late 20s"

Kenneth Koch, Poet

"I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it"

Scott Baio, Actor

"This is just strictly me wanting to make a record that is the real deal. It is all the stuff that I have learned and know that I remember. It's what I perceive as country music is about"

Vince Gill, Musician

"Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often"

Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus, Scientist

"The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that"

Oscar Peterson, Musician

"A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of"

Michael Bolton, Musician

"Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him"

Terry Riley, Composer

"I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people"

Pat Boone, Musician

"Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of"

Martin Gore, Musician

"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well"

Martin Gore, Musician

"I try to put myself into unusual and difficult situations as often as I can in order to capture the element of struggle in the music"

Neil Finn, Musician

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