Music Quotes

"I'm older than I was, and I'm still washed-up, and I haven't changed my music one iota. It's just much easier to do this when people are being nice to you"

Ben Folds, Musician

"I feel that after all those horrible reviews and jokes, I wasn't crazy all these years to stand up for the music I believe in. This album has proven that somewhere in the human race, the human heart is still racing and breaking and I am so grateful"

Barry Manilow, Musician

"I love music, and outside of work my family keeps me very busy, I have five children to keep track of"

Alberto Juantorena, Athlete

"My two great loves are music and horses"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"Negro music and culture are intrinsically improvisational, existential. Nothing is sacred. After a decade, a musical idea, no matter how innovative, is threatened"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"Those who have always had faith in its final success can do no less than rejoice as if it was our own triumph after five years of daily struggle to impose Cuban music on the European continent"

Alejo Carpentier, Novelist

"The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out"

Jimmy Buffett, Musician

"I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it"

Andrew Denton, Comedian

"And I like music, too, I like playing music"

Beau Bridges, Actor

"In America, for a brief time, people who followed Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort"

Archie Shepp, Musician

"But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record"

Adam Duritz, Musician

"I don't listen to a lot of radio today. It's not really music to me"

Bernie Worrell, Musician

"Fear is a problem with film music and films; people want to be conventional, and there's more commercialism today. If you are not daring in your art, you're bankrupt"

Alex North, Composer

"You have to react to what's around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key"

Jan Garbarek, Musician

"I painted the picture, and in the colors the rhythm of the music quivers. I painted the colors I saw"

Edvard Munch, Painter

"I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words"

Dolly Parton, Musician

"The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know"

Billy Connolly, Comedian

"Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it"

Mike Krzyzewski, Coach

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot"

Jackie Collins, Author

"The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"It bothers me when I hear it in a car commercial or some such. But for the most part, it's better than seeing sacred music relegated to the scrap heap"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Inaudible prayers, particularly of the Canon, which at first don't seem to have anything to do with music, end up being a very important part of the aesthetic of the traditional structure of the Mass"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"For two thousand years, the Church has guided the development of music, carefully legislating to fuse artistic talent and aesthetic beauty with the demands of the Faith"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Even Catholic parishes today are not wanting for talent. But no serious singer or organist will get anywhere near the typical music program, at least if he wants to retain his self-respect"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself"

Richard Morris, Clergyman

"I wanna show that gospel, country, blues, rhythm and blues, jazz, rock 'n' roll are all just really one thing. Those are the American music and that is the American culture"

Etta James, Musician

"Bobby Womack is always very real, both with his music and as a person"

Etta James, Musician

"To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!"

Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Writer

"But it is equally necessary to consider the implications for a society if there are fewer and fewer young people making music because we are economising on music schools or musical education in schools"

Johannes Rau, Statesman

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