Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"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

Ville Valo

"I really enjoy singing and I really enjoy acting, but singing I've been doing since I was really young"

Lindsay Lohan, Actress

Lindsay Lohan

"Playing a three-hour Rush show is like running a marathon while solving equations"

Neil Peart, Musician

"If you've got a problem, take it out on a drum"

Neil Peart, Musician

"I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time"

John Zorn, Composer

John Zorn

"I've discovered this new electronic technique that creates new speech out of stuff that's already there"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make"

David Lee Roth, Musician

"In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"Blues are the songs of despair, but gospel songs are the songs of hope"

Mahalia Jackson, Musician

"I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum"

Liam Hemsworth, Actor

Liam Hemsworth

"After all, in today's music scene, every band seems to steal from other bands"

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

Maynard James Keenan

"I sing about life"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

Marvin Gaye

"It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself"

Johannes Sebastian Bach, Composer

"Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Ritchie Valens does"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

"We're having a hard time understanding where jazz is going. What happened to jazz?"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

"I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters"

Jello Biafra, Musician

Jello Biafra

"A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"God gave me a voice to sing with, and when you have that, what other gimmick is there?"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable, or am I miserable because listen to pop music?"

John Cusack, Actor

John Cusack

"If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him "pop". Don't tell him "rock'n'roll" or they won't even let you in the hotel"

Buddy Holly, Musician

Buddy Holly

"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it"

Buddy Holly, Musician

Buddy Holly

"It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music"

Tom Petty, Musician

"I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes"

Terri Windling, Artist

"Sometime I write a song off a central idea, instead of emotion"

Ken Hill, Playwright

"Where I come from, it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?' and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead"

Lady Gaga, Musician

"You go to LA, or you go to New York, and it's really fun to go there. But they're not grounded. Everybody is just competing all the time for the limelight. It's too much entertainment industry. There are too many choices. And it's distracting to me"

Bob Seger, Musician

"It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"And you have a record company behind it, this is a key too, you need people to fight for your records, at least a little bit. So if you have a great song, it's catchy, and you've got a little bit of help, I think that's all you need. But there hasn't been that in music"

Joan Jett, Musician

Joan Jett

"This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"If somebody asks me to recommend a young good singer, I always do"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

Maureen Forrester

"I mean, I think I liked every band I ever played in because each band was different, each band had a different concept, and each band leader was different... different personalities and musical tastes"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off"

Joan Jett, Musician

Joan Jett

"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald"

Lena Horne, Actress

"If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on, then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

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