Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"You know, the drum was the first instrument besides the human voice"

Billy Higgins, Musician

"Without music, life would be a mistake"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"In music the passions enjoy themselves"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"I stay way from that area, and there's only so many songs you can write about love, sex and death"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Most bands don't even last fourteen months, let alone fourteen years"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"It's bad poetry executed by people that can't sing. That's my definition of Rap"

Peter Steele, Musician

Peter Steele

"Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"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

Frank Zappa

"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

Nobuo Uematsu

"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

Nobuo Uematsu

"There's some familiarity in Celtic music, even if you've never heard that piece of music before"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"I guess many game music fans prefer original soundtrack albums"

Nobuo Uematsu, Composer

Nobuo Uematsu

"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

Nobuo Uematsu

"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

Jon Secada

"Onstage, I am a devil. But I'm hardly a social reject"

Freddie Mercury, Musician

Freddie Mercury

"So many singers want to act, and so many actors try to sing"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"Country is not what you heard on the Grammys"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"All I ever want to do is what I am: a singer"

Crystal Gayle, Musician

Crystal Gayle

"The sound of the human voice is the best of nature, but only if it comes out from the feelings"

Giovanni Morassutti, Actor

Giovanni Morassutti

"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

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"Jazz can be a blank canvas full of possibilities"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"A good composer does not imitate; he steals"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"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

Paula Cole

"We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be"

Amy Lee, Musician

Amy Lee

"Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

Louis Armstrong

"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

Ludwig van Beethoven

"The songs are about things that we were thinking and we wrote 'em down, and when you listen to 'em, whatever you think it's about... THAT'S what it's about!"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"I think today's music absolutely stinks. I really do mean that"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

Frankie Avalon

"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

"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane"

Taylor Swift, Musician

Taylor Swift

"There is a world of difference between a Mahler eighth note and a normal eighth note"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table"

Johannes Brahms, Composer

"Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music"

Nina Simone, 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

"The Blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling, and understanding"

Willie Dixon, Musician

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

Shirley Manson, 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

"A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it"

Mikhail Glinka, Composer

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