Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"Actually freestyle really comes from 'Planet Rock'. If you listen to all the freestyle records you'll hear that they are based on 'Planet Rock'. All the Miami Bass records are based upon Planet Rock"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"I'm surprised that I actually pulled off the recording, getting all those people at the same time"

Link Wray, Musician

"I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest"

James Levine, Musician

"Everybody in all countries tries to play jazz"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"I think I love it more as I get older because I keep getting better on drums, vibes and piano"

Lionel Hampton, Musician

"Do not take up music unless you would rather die than not do so"

Nadia Boulanger, Musician

"We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was"

Slash, Musician

"Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair"

Saul Williams, Musician

"If there ever was a poet for the working class, Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination"

David Allan Coe, Musician

"I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig"

Alvin Lee, Musician

"Singing connected with movements and action is a much more ancient and, at the same time, more complex phenomenon than is a simple song"

Zoltan Kodaly, Composer

"I love to sing. I'm a soprano"

Sara Paretsky, Author

"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"Well, hip-hop is what makes the world go around"

Snoop Dogg, Musician

"In contrast, traditional classical music starts from an abstract musical schema. This is then notated and only expressed in concrete sound as a last stage, when it is performed"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"Music is the tool to express life - and all that makes a difference"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

"The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence"

Saul Williams, Musician

"It's not exclusive, but inclusive, which is the whole spirit of jazz"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

Jay-Z, Musician

"Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself!"

Hoagy Carmichael, Composer

"A symphony is no joke"

Johannes Brahms, Composer

"I'd done three solo albums in a row, and that's quite narcissistic"

Bjork, Musician

"Mantovani was a great influence on me"

Brian May, Musician

"It's so wonderful... if your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away"

Donald O'Connor, Musician

"I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that"

Van Morrison, Musician

"Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring"

Michael Stipe, Musician

"Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

"I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself"

James Taylor, Musician

"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words"

Shakira, Musician

"Whether the angels play only Bach praising God, I am not quite sure. I am sure, however, that en famille they play Mozart"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"A kind of synthesis, but with some elements that perhaps you wouldn't have expected in advance. I always like that when that happens, when something comes that is more than the sum of the parts"

Evan Parker, Musician

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not"

Van Morrison, Musician

"In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations"

Evan Parker, Musician

"I feel very fortunate to be compared to somebody so incredible. Michael Jackson's an icon"

Justin Timberlake, Musician

"But between sets I'd sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Jazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz. I've seen people try to connect it to other countries, for instance to Africa, but it doesn't have a damn thing to do with Africa"

Art Blakey, Musician

"Improvisation is a compositional method"

Evan Parker, Musician

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