Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"As soon as I hear a sound, it always suggests a mood to me"

Brian Eno, Musician

Brian Eno

"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

"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

"My songs are like my kids"

Billy Joel, Musician

"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

"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

Reba McEntire

"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

Duke Ellington

"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

Mick Jagger

"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

"A punk concert isn't fun without a pit"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

Billie Joe Armstrong

"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

"Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?"

Janis Joplin, Musician

Janis Joplin

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

Maynard James Keenan, Musician

Maynard James Keenan

"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

Lindsay Lohan

"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

Ville Valo

"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

Ville Valo

"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

"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

"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad"

David Geffen, Businessman

David Geffen

"I don't mind The Boss. I think he's an honest guy. I have some of his records, not all of them. I've met a couple of the E-Street guys, and they seem really cool"

Henry Rollins, Musician

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

Whitney Houston, Musician

"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 sing about life"

Marvin Gaye, Musician

Marvin Gaye

"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

"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

"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

"The album was very agressive. It kicks you right in the balls!"

Tre Cool, Musician

"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

"I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out"

Thom Yorke, Musician

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