Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"In the Top 40, half the songs are secret messages to the teen world to drop out, turn on, and groove with the chemicals and light shows at discotheques"

Art Linkletter, Journalist

"Mine is not a traditional music, but it comes from a tradition"

Tom Chapin, Musician

"I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being"

Sammy Hagar, Musician

"Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure"

John Cale, Musician

"Metallica is going to be one of those bands you look back on in the year 2008 that people will still listen to the way I still listen to Zeppelin and Sabbath albums"

Jason Newsted, Musician

"I made a dollar a day sweeping a laundry out. Then we made a record that was number two in Los Angeles. We got so excited hearing it on the radio that Carl threw up"

Dennis Wilson, Musician

"I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album"

Bruce Cockburn, Musician

"Traditional songwriting, to us, is where the experimental nature comes in. We're all involved with so much outside activity with really hardcore, experimental music-making"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice"

Roger Daltrey, Musician

"Americans are somehow obsessed with her, and something about me hit a spot with people in Japan"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"The story behind every song is individual to itself"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"A performance is only as good as the audience you are playing to. A lot of times you feed off of the audience, and we always try to give them all we've got and sometimes you don't get a lot back, but we've never been dead whenever we've performed"

Kelly Jones, Musician

"The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"In music, you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy"

John Frusciante, Musician

"The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur"

Alan Parsons, Musician

"Forty minutes in front of Beck isn't really where it's at"

Gene Ween, Musician

"I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi"

Alan Parsons, Musician

"Playing well with others is important - not being too flashy, just keeping good time and of course coming up with cool beats. A good snare drum, kick drum, high hat. Just getting good at the hand feet coordination"

Chad Smith, Musician

"You need three or five hands to play Ligeti"

Alfred Brendel, Musician

"My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between"

Tom Chapin, Musician

"Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested"

Ian MacKaye, Musician

"Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies"

Gary Wright, Musician

"This is my religion. I take long breaks now when I don't perform and I am not myself when I am not performing"

Roy Haynes, Musician

"Yeah, if someone's selling downloads and collecting money for our songs, I would be unhappy about that, but if they're trading it, I don't mind. Obviously, if I make a thousand records or CDs or whatever, I like to sell a thousand"

Ian MacKaye, Musician

"When I sing full-on, I use my whole body. I open my throat and let it fly out"

Robert Goulet, Musician

"I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day"

Itzhak Perlman, Musician

"Mozart often wrote to his family that certain variations or sections of pieces were so successful that they had to be encored immediately, even without waiting for the entire piece to end"

Emanuel Ax, Musician

"As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra"

Howard Keel, Actor

"What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music"

Philip Glass, Composer

"There's Eddie's conviction and his lyrics and his ideals, and he can just rock straight out. His vocals are incredible. And we all are really competent musicians"

Mike McCready, Musician

"If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed"

Alfred Brendel, Musician

"Rock and roll might be summed up as monotony tinged with hysteria"

Vance Packard, Writer

"A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved. He must, of necessity, feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener"

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Musician

"If children are not introduced to music at an early age, I believe something fundamental is actually being taken from them"

Luciano Pavarotti, Musician

"I grew up around hip-hop, so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever"

Chad Hugo, Musician

"I've looked at photographs of myself during concerts and it sometimes looks as if I'm in a fencing move, with a guitar in my hands instead of a sword"

Neil Diamond, Musician

"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition"

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Musician

"The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album"

Natalie Imbruglia, Musician

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