Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs"

Barry McGuire, Musician

"Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using, to the highest degree possible, the gift that God gave me to use. I'm happy with that"

Aretha Franklin, Musician

"Prior to that, I had associated this music with older people, like my father"

Benny Green, Musician

"I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come"

Jerry Garcia, Musician

"The great thing about rock and roll is that someone like me can be a star"

Elton John, Musician

"Having listened to great songwriters like James Taylor and Carole King, I felt there was nothing new that was coming out that really represented me and the way I felt. So I started writing my own stuff"

Amy Winehouse, Musician

"Collaborating with other artists is an amazing experience because you get to learn from each other and create something unique"

Kygo, Musician

"I believe that everyone has a song in their heart that they need to get out"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

"I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild"

Iggy Pop, Musician

"As everyone else, I was a fan of Pink Floyd in the Sixties"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

"Interplay and interaction are the integral parts of music - they're as important as the notes"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"I come from a background of experimental music which mingled real sounds together with musical sounds"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"People want to see musicians sing things that come from their own mind and own heart in real time, responding to the moment for them"

John Mayer, Musician

"I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns"

Ella Fitzgerald, Musician

"Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I take smack because I enjoy it. I enjoy all it makes me feel. I don't do it to be in with the in crowd. I can rock out with it"

Johnny Thunders, Musician

"And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I'm fascinated by rap and by hip-hop. I think there's a lot of poetry in it. There's a lot of anger, a lot of social energy in it. And I think you'd better listen to it pretty carefully, 'cause it's important"

John F. Kerry, Politician

"I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"I studied German at school. I lived in Berlin for two years and had a German girlfriend for five years, so I don't find speaking German particularly difficult. Singing was slightly more difficult"

Martin Gore, Musician

"And harmony means that the relationship between all the elements used in a composition is balanced, is good"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language"

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Composer

"Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine"

Rosanna Arquette, Actress

"I sat through Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones like three times at the Skyway when it came out"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"If a professional musician in a symphony orchestra is playing Beethoven, but this particular orchestra have played this particular chestnut so many times, they can play it in their sleep. Does the genius remain present in the music or not?"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"George was getting alot of independence for himself in those days. He was writing more, and wanted things to go his way - where, when we first started things basically went John and Paul's way. You know, 'cuz they were the writers"

Ringo Starr, Musician

"So what I'm trying to say is from a musical aspect for anybody to say that whatever they're doing in Florida is not Hip Hop or whatever they're doing in LA is not Hip Hop, who are these people to say that?"

Grandmaster Flash, Musician

"There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument"

Aimee Mann, Musician

"A song must move the story ahead. A song must take the place of dialogue. If a song halts the show, pushes it back, stalls it, the audience won't buy it; they'll be unhappy"

Dorothy Fields, Musician

"I think recordings have been a terrific advance because now, when you have a piece of music, particularly something that appears to the listener very complicated, there's really a push to the world to try to figure out what it was that he was hearing"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"The blues - the sound of a sinner on revival day"

William Christopher Handy, Musician

"Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join"

Glenn Tipton, Musician

"You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it, and in the end that's all that we have"

John McLaughlin, Musician

"I'd met Dr Dre, he was thinking about his next album, we talked a little and he said, 'Let me give you some of these loops and see what you come up with'"

Burt Bacharach, Composer

"Broadway has changed tremendously from the early days when the shows were referred to as musical comedies. Musical Theater is now a more expanded art form. Back then, singer-actors were not the norm. From the '60s to now, it is necessary to do it all to be a consummate Broadway performer"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper"

Alistair Cooke, Journalist

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