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"There is two kinds of music, the good, and the bad. I play the good kind"
Louis Armstrong, Musician
"So, essentially my contribution was to introduce repetition into Western music as the main ingredient without any melody over it, without anything, just repeated patterns, musical patterns"
Terry Riley, Composer
"Well, I guess my music came to prominence around one piece called 'In C,' which I wrote in 1964. At that time it was called 'The Global Villages for Symphonic Pieces', because it was a piece built out of 53 simple patterns and the structure was new to music at that time"
Terry Riley, Composer
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another"
Erykah Badu, Musician
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"The Beatles saved the world from boredom"
George Harrison, Musician
"I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection"
Quentin Tarantino, Director
"We were the Spice Boys"
George Harrison, Musician
"It's my fault in many cases because I don't initiate the contact to talk with a lot of other musicians"
Frank Morgan, Actor
"I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition"
Bruce Springsteen, Musician
"Music is only love looking for words"
Lawrence Durrell, Writer
"The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... Music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees"
Andres Segovia, Musician
"I love Ornette Coleman. I love Don Cherry. I love the way those guys play"
Lou Reed, Musician
"My God is rock'n'roll"
Lou Reed, Musician
"Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way"
Holly Near, Musician
"There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway"
Paul McCartney, Musician
"When I began, the guitar was enclosed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, because there were no virtuoso guitarists"
Andres Segovia, Musician
"I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, 'we really love this song'"
Paul McCartney, Musician
"Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere"
Pablo Casals, Musician
"I wish I could score everything for horns"
Richard Wagner, Composer
"There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people's entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy"
Beck, Musician
"They gave me four weeks, and I asked if the first week could be just music with the two main conductors. So, the conductors came over to my home, and we worked in the music room, and I learned my two little songs"
Rue McClanahan, Actress
"For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness"
Reba McEntire, Musician
"Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music"
Christian Nestell Bovee, Author
"I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues"
Duke Ellington, Musician
"I sing like a lark"
Layne Staley, Musician
"A lot of times songs are very much of a moment that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day"
Mick Jagger, Musician
"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
"What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds"
Carlisle Floyd, Composer
"It's typical of record companies. They sign you because you're unique, and then they want to put you in a mold so they can sell records"
Al Jourgensen, Musician
"I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to"
Lindsay Lohan, Actress
"In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard"
Billy Joel, Musician
"Some genres I'm not a huge fan of, but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention"
Ville Valo, Musician
"Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day, so, if people are interested, they can hear it, but I'm hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we've done"
Ville Valo, Musician
"We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money"
Ville Valo, Musician
"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young"
Lindsay Lohan, Actress
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