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"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together"
Neil Young, Musician
"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
"Listen to the sound of silence"
Paul Simon, Musician
"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
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it"
John Lennon, Musician
"I've been really, really blessed. I got to perform on stage with Bob Dylan. I've gotten to sing with Mick Jagger"
Sheryl Crow, Musician
"I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear"
Freddie Mercury, Musician
"I have fun with my clothes onstage; it's not a concert you're seeing, it's a fashion show"
Freddie Mercury, Musician
"If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!"
Kurt Cobain, Musician
"I just got into the Beatles a couple years ago, you know, I like it"
Ziggy Marley, Musician
"The attraction of the virtuoso for the public is very like that of the circus for the crowd. There is always the hope that something dangerous will happen"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law"
Claude Debussy, Composer
"The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"I really don't want to write a score until the whole show is cast and staged"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"If you're dealing with a musical in which you're trying to tell a story, it's got to sound like speech. At the same time it's got to be a song"
Stephen Sondheim, Composer
"But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals"
Warren Zevon, Musician
"But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging"
Warren Zevon, Musician
"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means"
David Bowie, Musician
"Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in"
David Bowie, Musician
"I think it all comes back to being very selfish as an artist. I mean, I really do just write and record what interests me and I do approach the stage shows in much the same way"
David Bowie, Musician
"Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde on Blonde every time"
Warren Zevon, Musician
"My first album is like a terrible John Hammond album, with drums"
Warren Zevon, Musician
"And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard"
Warren Zevon, Musician
"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does"
David Bowie, Musician
"Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place"
David Bowie, Musician
"I sell escapism"
Jimmy Buffett, Musician
"With the song 'This Christmas' I wanted to do something that was kind of different. I mean, Donny Hathaway is an amazing artist. So I wanted to bring my flavor to the song so when people over the age of 45 or 50 hear it they'll be like 'OK, he did his thing with that record.' It's like I can appeal to everybody and not just a younger demographic"
Chris Brown, Musician
"The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care"
Chris Brown, Musician
"I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun"
Britney Spears, Musician
"When we separate music from life we get art"
John Cage, Composer
"Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others"
Eddie Izzard, Comedian
"An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house"
Maria Callas, Musician
"If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know"
Louis Armstrong, Musician
"On stage, I am in the dark"
Maria Callas, Musician
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