Music Quotes

"There was this discussion to know how long the human ear was really receptive to the music. A 74 minute CD is too long. We thought about making two CDs, 35 minutes each... But the songs need to breathe"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts.""

Mako, Actor

"Music is your own talent and is an important tool. Even if you don't want to be a role model, get ready to be in the public eye. Energy is there, you just have to use it"

Sean Paul, Musician

"The big news already broke. The file-sharing and all that stuff, it's a done deal. And I think figuring out how to make that a fair exchange for the people that make music is still an issue"

Liz Phair, Musician

"Now, in music, it seems more like the popular crowd suppresses anyone who is different"

Liz Phair, Musician

"Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"I love music and musicians. And seeing great artists dropped from labels was really frustrating and sad to me"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"While I've had a great distaste for what's usually called song in modern poetry or for what's usually called music, I really don't think of speech as so far from song"

David Antin, Poet

"I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects"

Juice Newton, Musician

"Our show doesn't rely on the typical whistles and bells, and smoke and mirrors. It relies mostly on the music"

Juice Newton, Musician

"I'm just thrilled to see people enjoying the music"

Juice Newton, Musician

"I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music"

Joan Miro, Artist

"The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"But I do think that we approach music, in of itself, with a religious attitude"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes"

Mose Allison, Musician

"When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music"

Irvine Welsh, Novelist

"Napster is essentially using the music to make money for themselves and that's the part that's both morally and legally wrong. That I think is more relevant than whether or not I'm losing money"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"At the same time, I was listening to black music, and I began to think that the best musicians were receiving the worst treatment. The people who were doing the greatest work were despised as lower class, with no dignity accorded to what they did"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"The problem that I have is with the music business. For some reason it seems almost impossible to get anything, any music, released which includes improvisation or soloing"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone"

Jan Hammer, Musician

"It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular"

Wanda Jackson, Musician

"We were excited when we sold our first 10 records. I always felt that if we could get the music out there, and if people became accustomed to it, then a substantial number of them would enjoy it"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"There's not much music I'll listen to if it doesn't have pretty heavy swing. Rhythm is so important. Punk rock would have more power and feeling if it had swing"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"Since music has never had a Rembrandt, we have remained nothing more than musicians"

Morton Feldman, Composer

"Essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything just repeated patterns, musical patterns"

Terry Riley, Composer

"Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction"

James Young, Musician

"This genre of music seems to want to push people into a certain time slot, which is unfortunate"

Juice Newton, Musician

"There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them"

Juice Newton, Musician

"Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in"

Joshua Homme, Musician

"When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar"

Michael Storm, Actor

"Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do"

Dustin Diamond, Actor

"I just wanted to say one more thing: I also think that when you go to play music, you're there to play music"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didn't really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didn't want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasn't right"

Scott Stapp, Musician

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