Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

Jimmy Chamberlin

"After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true"

Montserrat Caballe, Musician

"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop"

Coolio, Musician

"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"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

"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times"

William Bell

"If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler'"

Alison Krauss, Musician

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it"

John Corigliano, Composer

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

Paul Muldoon

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

Bob Livingston, Politician

"Well, Winnepeg has everything to do with my music in the sense it was where I was born and raised, cultured and all that sort of thing. A lot of my experiences come from Winnepeg"

Chantal Kreviazuk, Musician

"We played at a club called the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"A lot of people can't stand touring, but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"The radio makes hideous sounds"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact, you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"Music is the melody whose text is the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is: does the man project and does he have ideas?"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"It's always been a gift with me, hearing music the way I do. I don't know where it comes from, it's just there and I don't question it"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"Don't play what's there, play what's not there"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"I'll play it and tell you what it is later"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"I'm a bit of a groupie"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger"

Neil Young, Musician

Neil Young

"Listen to the sound of silence"

Paul Simon, Musician

Paul Simon

"These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

Freddie Mercury

"I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

Freddie Mercury

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