Music Quotes

"Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon"

Compay Segundo, Musician

"Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"Music is my love"

Melissa Auf der Maur, Musician

"I made money. What am I gonna invest in? Stocks? No. I'm going to invest in music"

Melissa Auf der Maur, Musician

"In these confused times, the role of classical music is at the very core of the struggle to reassert cultural and ethical values that have always characterized our country and for which we have traditionally been honored and respected outside our shores"

Lorin Maazel, Musician

"Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"I'm not really into gothic music, it's not really my type of scene but each to their own. I listen to pretty much anything"

Richard Fleeshman, Actor

"My love, growing up on the Prairies, was country music"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is that, yes, I do sing and write all my own music. That is something that I hold really dear. And yeah, I made a fool of myself in front of the world, but it was also great to pick myself back up and go on tour"

Ashlee Simpson, Musician

"John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better"

Tony Levin, Musician

"It's not that I have resisted songwriting, it's just not something I felt I have had to do. I've just not woken up and thought, I must do this. But I have often heard music that I have instantly felt 'I have to sing that song'"

Alison Krauss, Musician

"I think that's given inspiration to other musicians. I know, particularly through the 90s, a lot of bands would cite Rush as an influence. I don't think it was so much our music, but more the way we really stuck to our guns"

Alex Lifeson, Musician

"I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base"

Greg Lake, Musician

"We love not just Judas Priest music, but we love heavy metal and we love to get out on that stage every night and perform. It's a joy to be able to do it"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously"

Anthony Kiedis, Musician

"After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a nice catchy melody and an opportunity to play a solo over a harmonic structure"

Stanley Clarke, Musician

"I've always expressed my love for fashion through my music"

Lil' Kim, Musician

"You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff"

Adam Rich, Actor

"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy"

Shelley Berman, Comedian

"The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here"

Kabir Bedi, Actor

"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"The Goth character was a difficult thing to get my head round. I'm not really a fan of Goth music. I'm more a piano and guitar man - that's what I love"

Richard Fleeshman, Actor

"My head works in music, so there's always music there"

Ben Harper, Musician

"Folk is bare bones music"

Ben Harper, Musician

"Singing is a way of releasing an emotion that you sometimes can't portray when you're acting. And music moves your soul, so music is the source of the most intense emotions you can feel. When you hear a song and you're acting it's incredible. But when you're singing a song and you're acting it's even more incredible"

Amanda Seyfried, Actress

"Because essentially Schoenberg was an extremely gifted man. And in spite of many of his theories and so on, when he really began to write music, he still was guided very much by his internal hearing, by what we call your internal ear"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"A protracted legislative fight will not move us closer to where the music industry wants to be - delivering music to fans through a variety of different, innovative Web sites"

Hilary Rosen, Businesswoman

"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music"

Henry Flynt, Artist

"Most good things happen with time; especially music, which needs time to breathe and to find its own way"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad"

George Jones, Musician

"I really like listening to music in my car"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music"

Gavin Bryars, Composer

"I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardening, or architecture, or music. I'd be an obsessive hairdresser"

Gates McFadden, Actress

"Filming is so much to do with rhythm, as is music, and if it isn't there then you know in the end nobody can save it really, they can't"

Ben Kingsley, Actor

"That happens every time I get behind a guitar, regardless of what I'm saying, 'cause music is freedom and being free is the closest I've ever felt to being spiritual"

Ben Harper, Musician

"I refuse to make uninspired music"

Ben Harper, Musician

"There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political"

Earle Brown, Composer

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