Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"I have a love-hate relationship with performing"

Sarah Brightman, Musician

"So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning"

Aaron Copland, Composer

"We have always wanted to write songs and be experimental in that way"

Mike Lowry, Politician

"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place"

Matthew Sweet, Musician

"I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it"

Johnny Rivers, Musician

"If a voice is just too nice, without an edge, it kinda all flows by. You forget it. You don't listen to the lyrics"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"The Beatles and The Stones were basically inspired by American Rhythm and Blues"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"Most artists have contracts directly with the record company, and when they do music, all of their music is owned by the record company. But I did mine through a production company"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"If we are able to get inside the music and inhabit it convincingly enough, it will cause everyone to find each other in this new psychological space. And that's most exciting"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"Hip Hop is thee dominant youth culture in the world right now"

Kurtis Blow, Musician

"You know, there are many alter egos and Gorillaz is a collective of alter egos, really. I think anyone who gets involved in it has to sort of accept that nothing is really as it seems"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"Rap is a gimmick, but I'm for the hip-hop, the culture"

Method Man, Musician

"We always did our own mixing"

Stephen Malkmus, Musician

"Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"Your woman pisses you off so that gets in there; that's rock n roll"

Gary Cherone, Musician

"I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep, I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto"

Kiefer Sutherland, Actor

"It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"I'm just writing songs about how I feel or about how people I know feel"

Elliott Smith, Musician

"The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that"

Merle Haggard, Musician

"Anybody who thinks pop music's easy should try to make a pop single and find out that it isn't"

Robert Wyatt, Musician

"Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love"

Steven Cojocaru, Critic

"We haven't played that many of them because all our gear was over here waiting for us when we could get here. So we didn't get to rehearse any of the new stuff, so we have planned to play 3 or 4 new ones"

Kerry King, Musician

"And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit"

Charlie Hunter, Musician

"But remember, guitar players are a dime a dozen"

Krist Novoselic, Musician

"But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"They are representations of many shared hours of collaboration between us all. That's the real nature of the relationship the orchestra and I are trying to build"

Michael Tilson Thomas, Musician

"I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics"

Damon Albarn, Musician

"I didn't have a lot of overtly political songs. I think it was more the actions of the group that were threatening to the authorities, and also our political philosophies apart from the music"

Greg Ginn, Musician

"For me, the most difficult thing is that I am learning melodies on guitar from some songs whose melodies were not meant to be played on guitar. Ever. They were intended mostly for keyboards or melodic percussion"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"I love Gibsons, and Nationals, too. There's something magical about them"

Mark Knopfler, Musician

"When I was 14 years old, I was a huge fan of the Velvets, the Stooges and the Modern Lovers. They are my three favourite bands. I never get sick of 'em"

Evan Dando, Musician

"There's no difference in a lot of people's minds between good musicians and popular musicians"

Dweezil Zappa, Musician

"Every song is like a painting"

Dick Dale, Musician

"I saw Al Foster with Miles Davis the other week. It was beautiful. But, the whole thing was, Al Foster played as well as everybody else, but all of them were quite brilliant under Miles Davis' direction"

Charlie Watts, Musician

"There is no seam between my songs and myself-they really are me. It's not like I'm performing; I'm just singing stuff that I really believe"

David Friedman, Musician

"I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words"

Arnold Schoenberg, Composer

"Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there"

Ben E. King, Musician

"But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance"

Steven Tyler, Musician

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