Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"I'm not a salsa singer who wants to sing in English, and I'm not this American kid who wants to sing Spanish"

Marc Anthony, Musician

"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something, the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still, is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult"

Beth Gibbons, Musician

"The music industry is saying, this is the format, and if you'll fit into this format, you can be on radio, and if radio will play you, MTV will expose you, and MTV will expose you, we'll sell records"

Nikki Sixx, Musician

"The first 12-string guitar I bought was probably around 1957"

Roger McGuinn, Musician

"Every band had their own distinctive sound, but it was pretty much dancing music and rhythmic music with a tremendous emphasis on copying the Cuban models"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"There's only one Sabbath guitarist and he is the architect for everything: Tony Iommi"

Zakk Wylde, Musician

"It would be easier to say what was the difference in style from many years ago. Many years ago, the old violinists, they also had a good technique, they were not tonally as good"

Ruggiero Ricci, Musician

"Around '75, when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band"

Tommy Shaw, Musician

"But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words"

Utada Hikaru, Musician

"It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo"

Oscar Peterson, Musician

"I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars"

Rosanne Cash, Musician

"I was the first person to come into New York with a Latin American point of view which was also very much influenced by political happenings in Latin America"

Ruben Blades, Musician

"Mozart was a punk, which people seem to forget. He was a naughty, naughty boy"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times"

Mac Davis, Musician

"Plus, we spend most of our time writing music. Most of the time is spent in the studio in my house"

Warren Cuccurullo, Musician

"No, I like being a role model because I know how much comfort my musical idols brought me"

Shirley Manson, Musician

"Anybody can write music of a sort. But touching the public heart is quite another thing"

John Philip Sousa, Musician

"Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record"

Randy Bachman, Musician

"Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced"

Faith Hill, Musician

"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there"

Roger McGuinn, Musician

"My access to music when I was growing up was through pirate radio, you know, transistor radio under the pillow, listening to one more and then 'just one more' until your favourite track comes on"

Robert Palmer, Musician

"I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome"

James Dickey, Novelist

"We met The Cult and were talking to them for a while. We went a few places with Offspring"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"I think it's important for fans to know that, but if I'm doing something that inspires me musically then I think it will inspire someone else too"

Chris Cornell, Musician

"I think if you are writing an instrumental, you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense, but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line, and a much more expensive exercise"

Leo Kottke, Musician

"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal"

Gavin DeGraw, Musician

"We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun and we wanted to play music that sounded like Black Sabbath or Soundgarden or the music we were into at that time"

Daniel Johns, Musician

"Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not? The times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable"

Dave Davies, Musician

"And I've played piano since I was little, so I was originally the piano player in the band"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"Some people say there was no jazz tenor before me. All I know is I just had a way of playing and I didn't think in terms of any other instrument but the tenor"

Coleman Hawkins, Musician

"If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm, curvy sort of feminine object"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"Well, I had a musical background, but I still didn't know a lot about drums at the time"

Caroline Corr, Musician

"The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive"

Colin Greenwood, Musician

"I was drawn to things I thought were either sexy or aggressive - or both"

Adam Clayton, Musician

"When you are in your 20s and 30s, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens"

Barry Gibb, Musician

"I was a schooled musician. When I made 'Blue Velvet', I told everyone what to do. I was an arranger. I learned music in school. I told the band to play this. I told the guitar to do that"

Bobby Vinton, Musician

"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that"

Chad Smith, Musician

"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I figured I could do 'It's A Man's Man's Man's World' because I believe it's the truth"

Etta James, Musician

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