Music Quotes

"No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture"

Laurie Anderson, Musician

"I want to communicate through my music. If you want to know Geri Halliwell listen to my album: it tells you more about me than a documentary ever could"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"The awesomeness of God is that even in the works of the Beach Boys, Beatles, etc., the beauty of the music is a mere reflection of what God does everyday. He creates music of all kinds and moods"

John Foster, Architect

"The music sold itself before anybody knew who I was"

Enya, Musician

"I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music"

Enya, Musician

"I am really a very shy person. If I appear, it is because of the music, not because I want to be seen"

Enya, Musician

"Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard"

Hugh Miller, Scientist

"I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being the best way to approach this kind of playing. I don't think it works in other music, other kinds of playing"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"I enjoy all aspects of singing and I'm luckily given the choice to be part of different styles of music"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"That was the impetus for me to do music or art, because I knew if I didn't try when I was young, then I would get to be in my 40's and I'd be really unhappy that I hadn't"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"Music always came first. I never set out to be an actor"

David Soul, Actor

"We always thought the Tom Tom Club could change to anything, but it acquired this image, which was cartoon animation and this real light-hearted dance music"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"Make it, not make it? What's the difference? Music is a language, it's a dance of life, and it can be a part of your life without being something that earns"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and most important by hanging out with one another - by collaborating with one another and creating your own network - you can achieve something that is much better than what is out there"

David Amram, Composer

"If you look at music, you see theme, variation, you see symmetry, asymmetry, you see structure, and these are related to skills in the real world"

Dave Van Ronk, Musician

"People will always need love, romance, a tender touch, and really personal and deeply felt music"

Susannah McCorkle, Musician

"It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine"

Susannah McCorkle, Musician

"Over in the UK, the music press can be brutal. They can say wonderful things about you one week, and the next week, you're in the can"

Enya, Musician

"There are so many things that are misunderstood or not recognized about my father's music because they've been filtered by people who work for magazines like Rolling Stone"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"So I wanted to sing inspirational music, and that's exactly how I approached it - only the words have been changed to declare my relationship with God"

Smokey Robinson, Musician

"I'm still grappling with all the things most people resolve by the time they're 35. Maybe that's why I make music that is relevant to young people. I'm emotionally stuck at the age of 13"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it"

Debbie Harry, Musician

"The whole world has changed much since the '80's. In the united States, rap music and country music dominate radio and that certainly wasn't the case in the early '80's"

Sheena Easton, Musician

"The study of music was a family interest"

Emanuel Celler, Politician

"While it is true that Frank had a great sense of humor, he was also very serious about composing music. In reality there are only a handful of skilled players who can play his most complex pieces. It takes a lot of patience to learn and requires a fantastic memory"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul"

Dick Dale, Musician

"Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not a young music"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody else's area and not playing their music but doing whatever I do in their area"

Derek Bailey, Musician

"The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out"

Debbie Gibson, Musician

"I am for sure a redhead and there aren't that many of us out there in music"

Melissa Auf der Maur, Musician

"The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music"

John Abercrombie, Musician

"One of the basic things about a string is that it can vibrate in many different shapes or forms, which gives music its beauty"

Edward Witten, Mathematician

"We have been trying to play a lot of different kinds of music, and probably the next album will go back more towards the direction where you couldn't classify each song as a certain kind of music. This album you can"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"You're just sort of searching for this "thing" and sometimes you get it and sometimes you don't. All music is imperfect, but in jazz since you're improvising, at least the way I play, I'm trying to follow my train of thought in a solo"

John Abercrombie, Musician

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