Music Quotes

"We play happy music, and we make people happy. That's why they like us"

"This business is about working. It's really not about glamour. For me, the most glamorous thing about it is to b able to get on stage and perform my music for people. That's the privilege. And that's what all the work leads up to, and that's why it's worth it to me"

Debbie Gibson, Musician

"The bass, no matter what kind of music you're playing, it just enhances the sound and makes everything sound more beautiful and full. When the bass stops, the bottom kind of drops out of everything"

Charlie Haden, Musician

"If it turns out to be a hit, well, good luck dealing with fame. And if it's not a hit and you can still survive and make music you believe in, well, then you're truly blessed. I think that's where we are now"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"Seriously though, my father was the first African American to sign a contract with the Metropolitan Opera so I grew up with classical music and jazz in the home all the time"

Bobby McFerrin, Musician

"Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet"

David Boies, Lawyer

"A friend of mine, that I had known for some time, came up one day with an old guitar. I don't know where he got it, I don't know how long he'd had it, but he knew about two chords on it. He proceeded to teach them to me, and then we proceeded to go crazy over music"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"I hope America sees I am a goofy guy andI'm kind a crazy, I hope they see that I am a musician aswell, that I have music all around my body - I'm just exfoliating music, and I just hope America sees that"

Casey Abrams, Musician

"Put out great music, and that's that"

Foxy Brown, Musician

"You have to be a strong person to be in music, especially"

Christina Milian, Musician

"Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now"

Christina Milian, Musician

"It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness"

Dwight Yoakam, Musician

"There's the Bacon society, which is fostered by his fourth wife Helen Bacon, but I don't know what kind of performances his music gets. He wrote symphonic music and some chorale music"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references"

Carlisle Floyd, Composer

"It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy"

Chubby Checker, Musician

"The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements"

Boris Vian, Writer

"One ends up relying on pure musical inspiration, and failing that, the music won't lead to anything good, or it will alienate all but the most die-hard fans"

Boris Vian, Writer

"There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music"

Daisy Berkowitz, Musician

"But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot"

Bill Bruford, Musician

"We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music"

Andy Partridge, Musician

"In some types of music I'm working out all the chords one bar at a time - the whole structure, because it's about that. And there are other pieces which are really about - okay, the melody is going to start here and play through to here"

Danny Elfman, Musician

"It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music"

Christina Milian, Musician

"Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"Today, music is visual"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time"

Charlie Daniels, Musician

"The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music"

Andy Taylor

"Jazz in itself is not struggling. That is, the music itself is not struggling... It's the attitude that's in trouble. My plays insist that we should not forget or toss away our history"

August Wilson, Playwright

"A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age"

Annie Lennox, Musician

"When I decided to go to a country that subsidized music, I went to the Soviet Union for two years"

Alex North, Composer

"The music of the most popular operas is so highly esteemed, it can stand endless revivals"

Bruce Beresford, Director

"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"For us there's U2 music, and then there's everything else"

Adam Clayton, Musician

"The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here"

Bob Livingston, Politician

"I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial"

Chris Robinson, Musician

"It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there"

Charlie Haden, Musician

"If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music"

Billy Eckstine, Musician

"I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything"

Carrot Top, Comedian

"I was in every band class I could get in, like after school jazz band and marching band, and that's where I really learned to read music from elementary all the way through junior high and high school"

Chad Smith, Musician

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