Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"Independent artists and labels have always been the trend setters in music and the music business"

Shawn Fanning, Businessman

"When somebody like Elvis Costello comes along, anybody can make a good record with him"

Nick Lowe, Musician

"I think Elvis loved his fans - I think that's why they loved him and still love him. Fans are very conscious and sensitive to the fact that performers love them"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from"

James Taylor, Musician

"It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do"

Janet Jackson, Musician

"We have boys now, and men, in the rock and roll business and all the show business, who have this reaction on women. They scream. They yell. They do all sorts of wild things"

Minnie Pearl, Musician

"People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

"Television sounded really different than the Ramones, sounded really different than us, sounded really different than Blondie, sounded really different than the Sex Pistols"

David Byrne, Musician

"I feel fortunate about being able to make the music I want to make and getting away with it"

Duncan Sheik, Musician

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

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

"I went along and basically learned a few of the songs they were doing at the time, which were quite a few of the songs we ended up doing on our first album"

John Deacon, Musician

"Music is an element that should be part and parcel of every child's life via the education system"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"I was never worried that synthesizers would replace musicians. First of all, you have to be a musician in order to make music with a synthesizer"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"You know, the music business is like the Lotto. Just put your numbers down and sometimes they hit, and sometimes they don't. There's just no rhyme or reason"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to New Kids on the Block"

Alicia Keys, Musician

"Sometimes songwriters and singers forget that. They get a melody in their head and the notes will take precedence, so that they wind up forcing a word onto a melody. It doesn't ring true"

Don Henley, Musician

"I don't care what anybody says about Ringo. I cut my rock-n-roll teeth listening to him"

Don Henley, Musician

"I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people"

Wayne Kramer, Writer

"Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Musician

"I remember when metal was something you really had to search out, and now I hear it on car commercials"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"For Debussy, the musician and the man, I have had profound admiration, but by nature I'm different from him. I think I have always personally followed a direction opposed to that of the symbolism of Debussy"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material 'til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame"

Wayne Kramer, Writer

"My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"I did my work slowly, drop by drop. I tore it out of me by pieces"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"I love music. It's freedom, a way to deal with pent-up frustration"

Ice Cube, Musician

"One always has to remember these days where the garbage pail is, because it's so easy to make sounds, and to put sounds together into something that appears to be music, but it's just as hard as it always was to make good music"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s"

Carly Simon, Musician

"Music is too important to be left to professionals"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people"

LL Cool J, Musician

"My first language is Gaelic"

Enya, Musician

"You have to face the fact that I have no reputation as a composer; I have my reputation as a songwriter and a performer-and that opportunity came this summer, when I was invited to perform at the Lincoln Centre festival in New York... three nights"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"Playing and singing at the same time is pretty cool, but sometimes it's difficult to know when you can just really let go a bit because you've got to get back to bloody microphone and sing some stuff"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"Singing in Gaelic is very, very natural to do. I think lends itself very much so to being sung"

Enya, Musician

"It was a really interesting time in New York in the late '70s and early '80s, and the music scene was really, really interesting because you didn't have to be a virtuoso to make music, it was more about your desire to express things"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down"

Jim Jarmusch, Director

"Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese roast duck, and I love roast duck"

Billie Holiday, Musician

"But those audiences in Spain, they were just so stoned. I don't like playing to audiences like that because they just don't do anything. I'm up here with my band and we're working really hard and they are just stoned"

Graham Coxon, Musician

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