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"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap"
Peter Steele, Musician
"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself"
Miles Davis, Musician
"We hope that eventually there would be an occasion which I can personally prove that game music can in fact impress many different people and move them"
Nobuo Uematsu, Composer
"As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time"
Nobuo Uematsu, Composer
"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before"
Nobuo Uematsu, Composer
"I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums"
Nobuo Uematsu, Composer
"And it's very strange, but I think there is something very common - not only in Celtic music - but there is a factor or element in Celtic music that is similar in music that we find in Japan, the United States, Europe, and even China and other Asian countries"
Nobuo Uematsu, Composer
"If you write songs and if you write music that's very sincere and very honest, it's pop music, but it is pop music with a lot of honesty and a lot of heart"
Jon Secada, Musician
"So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
"Country is not what you heard on the Grammys"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
"All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer"
Crystal Gayle, Musician
"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature, but only if it comes out from the feelings"
Giovanni Morassutti, Actor
"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject"
Freddie Mercury, Musician
"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art, a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of C# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities"
Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist
"A good composer does not imitate; he steals"
Igor Stravinsky, Composer
"For me, music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again"
Paula Cole, Musician
"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be"
Amy Lee, Musician
"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them"
Louis Armstrong, Musician
"What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven"
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer
"I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that"
Frankie Avalon, Actor
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth"
Andres Segovia, Musician
"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time"
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note"
Gustav Mahler, Composer
"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music"
Nina Simone, Musician
"All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians"
Thelonious Monk, Musician
"Music is supposed to wash away the dust of everyday life"
Art Blakey, Musician
"Music is an extraordinary vehicle for expressing emotion - very powerful emotions. That's what draws millions of people towards it. And, um, I found myself always going for these darker places and - people identify with that"
Annie Lennox, Musician
"Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen"
Benny Green, Musician
"If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me, it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about"
Aretha Franklin, Musician
"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"
Mikhail Glinka, Composer
"Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation"
Ronnie James Dio, Musician
"A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it"
Hanns Eisler, Composer
"Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue"
Plato, Philosopher
"The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable"
Barack Obama, President
"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something"
Frank Zappa, Musician
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid"
Frank Zappa, Musician
"Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain"
Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary
"Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it"
Elvis Presley, Musician
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