Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them"

Etta James, Musician

"Yeah, I wanted to know where they got it from, what it was all about, you know, and it seemed to strike something in me that was you know rearing its head and I still don't know what that is"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"One summer I remember, I got exposed to Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, and Buddy Holly was a very, very big, made a very big impression on me. Because of a lot of things, you know, the way he looked and his charisma"

Eric Clapton, Musician

"I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right"

Jacqueline du Pre, Musician

"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing"

Bela Bartok, Composer

"I have always believed that opera is a planet where the muses work together, join hands and celebrate all the arts"

Franco Zeffirelli, Director

"Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right"

Otis Rush, Musician

"People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words"

Felix Mendelssohn, Composer

"Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from LaGuardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club"

Cab Calloway, Musician

"I now have a home recording studio, which I can operate entirely on my own, as well as a portable version of the same which allows me to record anywhere I like and simply swap out the hard drives for use in the home studio"

Clint Black, Musician

"The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard"

Andrew Eldritch, Musician

"The blues tells a story in itself. It can make you happy or give you a feeling to swing"

Jimmy Rushing, Musician

"I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music"

Shawn Colvin, Artist

"The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing"

Norman Granz, Musician

"My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces"

Harrison Birtwistle, Composer

"When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance"

Eberhard Weber, Musician

"I'd rather play a few nights at the Fillmore than play one night at an arena"

Lucinda Williams, Musician

"In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures"

Carl Wilson, Musician

"The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?"

Billy Preston, Musician

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

Lauryn Hill, Musician

"Every band needs its own special chemistry. And Bez was a very good chemist"

Tony Wilson, Journalist

"There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer"

Tom Wopat, Actor

"Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then"

John Fogerty, Musician

"If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal"

Brad Paisley, Musician

"I just shot John Lennon"

Mark David Chapman, Criminal

"If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano"

Jerry Lee Lewis, Musician

"I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance"

Paul Parker, Athlete

"Music is a way to dream together and go to another dimension"

Cecilia Bartoli, Musician

"He doesn't make it so complicated but just really allows the lyric to come through even though there's a lot of production going on. I think that's the key and that's the magic, it's making sure that people could still connect with the lyrics while they're on the dance floor"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge, for it requires from its disciples, composers and performers alike, not only talent and enthusiasm, but also that knowledge and perception which are the result of protracted study and reflection"

Alban Berg, Composer

"I didn't plan on rock-n-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music"

Robby Krieger, Musician

"I think the world is ready for some rock 'n' roll. Some real time guys that play their own instruments, write their own songs, and sing the music and have a good time doing it"

Vince Neil, Musician

"Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more"

Ryan Cabrera, Musician

"You can alter movie singing so much because you go into the recording studio and just technology for recording has gotten so good, you can hold out a note and they can combine a note from take 2 and a note from take 8"

Anne Hathaway, Actress

"I came from a small town and at school in one class there was me, a member from Depeche Mode and someone who went on to join The Cure. That was all in one class of 30 kids"

Alison Moyet, Musician

"I also played with Jimi Hendrix. Jimi would come down and sit in with Retaliation and we would have a ball. He offered me the gig with him at 20 pounds a week, which at that point, was like 60 bucks"

Aynsley Dunbar, Musician

"Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history"

Peter Warlock, Composer

"When the tour is done, that's the end of the U.S. tour. We'll regroup and see what we're going to do"

Alex Van Halen, Musician

"But then there was Hendrix, man. Jimi was really the last cat to freak me. Jimi was playing all the stuff I had in my head. I couldn't believe it when I first heard him. Man, no one can ever do what he did with a guitar. No one can ever take his place"

Terry Kath, Musician

"Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it"

Aaron Carter, Musician

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