Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"We live in a connected world now. Some find that frightening. If people are downloading our music, they're listening to it. The internet is like radio for us"

Jeff Tweedy, Musician

"If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process"

Taylor Dayne, Musician

"Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control"

Tracy Chapman, Musician

"Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas"

Roberta Flack, Musician

"But I'm just having fun playing and giving Botox injections to the older songs"

Richard Marx, Musician

"At the Isle of Wight, the sound went out and kind of kept on going. And I wasn't... when I came off stage, I was kind of unhappy about how we had played. But now, I listen back to those recordings and it's not bad"

Keith Emerson, Musician

"We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world"

Noel Gallagher, Musician

"The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years"

Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Author

"Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity"

George Thorogood, Musician

"Phil Ramone is very special. Barbra Streisand or Diana Ross... They are the best"

Giorgio Moroder, Producer

"I hosted Soul Train, but I listen to everything"

Shemar Moore, Actor

"Music in this film is a very important part"

Maximilian Schell, Actor

"Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible"

T-Bone Burnett

"My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened"

Peter Tork, Musician

"We played one warm-up gig at this bar that was kinda like that bar in 'The Blues Brothers' with the chicken wire. This place called The Brick House in Housatonic. I really can't believe we're going to play for people in New York City. I'm terrified, but it's a small enough room. But it's really just supposed to be for the fun of it"

Lauren Ambrose, Actress

"The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me"

Robin Trower, Musician

"The Radiohead record, The Bends, is my all-time favorite record on the planet"

Tommy Lee, Musician

"If the Police could do a reunion... One of the biggest jerks I ever met was Sting. If he can do it, then anyone can do it. It's not that big a deal. And the Eagles! They did it! They severely hated each other. It's just rock and roll"

Steven Adler, Musician

"As far as playing jazz, no other art form, other than conversation, can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction"

Stan Getz, Musician

"That was more or less coincidental in the sense that my parents wanted me to come back to New York because that's the center of musical activity still to this day, more or less, and so I auditioned for the Metropolitan Opera"

Gunther Schuller, Composer

"There was some scene in The Blues Brothers movie, when they had the chicken wire across the front of the stage, and it was almost like that. They had a big guard rail around the stage, which kept the college kids from getting on... we had some good times"

William Bell

"Jeff Lynne is an arranger, and I think it's probably much easier for him to go ahead and play a part himself than to try to show somebody else what he wants. But it's hard for me to say; I barely know Jeff"

Benmont Tench, Musician

"I think Behind the Music is good for people like Leif Garrett and Motley Crue"

Ronnie Spector, Musician

"People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts"

Paul Hindemith, Musician

"My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune"

Sonny Rollins, Musician

"The hardest of all the arts to speak of is music, because music has no meaning to speak of"

Ned Rorem, Composer

"I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV"

Nina Blackwood, Celebrity

"I would go visit my mom on Sundays, and my brother was working on stuff. I'd go in there and sing a little melody, then we started working with words and the next thing you know it was just born organically without really trying"

Taryn Manning, Actress

"We are different people - you get a different take on the band, whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing"

Ed O'Brien, Musician

"It was rehearsing in the studio, at which point they were setting up the sound, and once we'd got the thing together they'd actually record it, without us knowing sometimes!"

Noel Redding, Musician

"To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism; bordering on insanity"

Richard Thompson, Musician

"That night at Carnegie Hall was a great experience. When the thing was first put up to me I was a little dubious, not knowing just what would be expected of us"

Benny Goodman, Musician

"It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don't care if we aren't"

Joel Madden, Musician

"I come from the home-grown punk ethic, where it doesn't matter if you can't play a note, it's how you communicate"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I heard Mr. Wild Bill Davis. I heard him play in 1930, and he told me that it would take me fifteen years just to learn the pedals, the pedals of the organ, and I got mad"

Jimmy Smith

"I started training for musicals since I was a boy"

David Hasselhoff, Actor

"I usually prepare a track and then I work with the artist when it's time to do the vocals"

Kenneth Edmonds, Musician

"The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general"

George Crumb, Composer

"I feel like I want to write some songs and I don't know how to go about doing it. Usually it's the lyrics that are a problem, and I think I am not really cut out to be a lyricist"

Mike Gordon, Musician

"Some months ago, while I was preparing a new work, I told a young cinema executive my intention of including in a soundtrack two themes from Bach. But when he asked me which has been the last hit from that Bach?, then I knew that I had no longer place in cinema"

Maurice Jarre, Composer

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