Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"Music is a way for me to express my feelings and emotions, and I think that's the most important thing for any artist"

Alan Walker, Musician

"I want my music to have a positive impact on people's lives, and I hope that it can help them overcome their challenges and feel better about themselves"

Alan Walker, Musician

"Music is an art form that's always changing and evolving. It's never static, and that's what makes it so exciting"

David Gilmour, Musician

"Songwriting is kind of like a craft. It's not something that just comes in a dream. You've got to work at it"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

"The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"I never decided to start singing, to be a singer"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"The Grateful Dead were an influence on our music, but they weren't by a long shot the biggest influence"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"And I said - Styx - as a musical group, it is our place to reflect the light that is shining on us back onto this place and say - This is where so much great stuff started"

James Young, Musician

"In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk"

Steve Lacy, Musician

"When we were making Speaking in Tongues and Remain in Light, we were jamming. From that we were taking the best bits and then recording and improvising on top of those"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere"

John Coltrane, Musician

"If you don't tour, you cannot expect to sell a huge numbers of your albums either. It was both a business - and an economical decision, and we wanted to play anyway. We just wanted to get out for the tour when it was safe enough for us"

Kerry King, Musician

"Life is about rhythm. We vibrate, our hearts are pumping blood, we are a rhythm machine, that's what we are"

Mickey Hart, Musician

"Rock is about finding who you are. You don't necessarily have to play your instrument very well at all. You can just barely get by and you can be in a rock band"

Gene Simmons, Musician

"Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"Steve has the most unbelievable range for a man that I've ever heard"

Eydie Gorme, Musician

"Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid"

Tina Weymouth, Musician

"I'm not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"Al Jolson was one of the greatest entertainers who ever lived"

Desi Arnaz, Actor

"They're not particular about whether you're playing a flatted fifth or a ruptured 129th as long as they can dance to it"

Dizzy Gillespie, Musician

"Sometimes I just hit the keyboard in a way I'd like the rhythm of the tracks to sound"

Richard D. James, Musician

"Music is a form of prayer"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"A melody is not merely something you can hum"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"I like music because it's the only invisible art form"

Sean Lennon, Musician

"Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions"

Bruno Mars, Musician

"My favorite album would have to be Rocket To Russia. I feel this album has the most classic Ramones songs"

Johnny Ramone, Musician

"I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song"

Bruno Mars, Musician

"If government and media and all of us in the Australian tribe got together, and the rock industry, we'd just be the greatest cultural force the world has ever seen - we're such an amazing race"

Yahoo Serious, Director

"It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live"

Richard D. James, Musician

"Singing is an arduous business and it needs sacrifices"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I adore art... When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear"

Giuseppe Verdi, Composer

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"You can say that Wayne Coyne sounds like Neil Young"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"Pete DJ Jones was the first person that I saw with 2 turntables. This was 1972"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"I think a lot of it is that we used to tour so much that we never really had time to write songs"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"We're not trying to change the world, just music"

Jonathan Davis, Musician

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