Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"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

Ronnie James Dio

"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

Plato

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"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

Barack Obama

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"Tone has the living soul"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"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

Elvis Presley

"Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain"

Mikhail Bakunin, Revolutionary

Mikhail Bakunin

"If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'"

John Lennon, Musician

John Lennon

"Rock 'n' Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear"

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties"

David Bowie, Musician

David Bowie

"We all do 'do, re, mi', but you have got to find the other notes yourself"

Louis Armstrong, Musician

Louis Armstrong

"I had been interested in Indian music and I actually started studying Tableaus before I met him"

Terry Riley, Composer

Terry Riley

"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead"

George Harrison, Musician

George Harrison

"Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

Walter Savage Landor

"I thought the Billie Holiday comparison was beautiful. I think, wow, what a wonderful, creative, helpful spirit. She's someone who wanted to help others by sharing her emotion. That's what I do, too, so I think that's a great comparison"

Erykah Badu, Musician

Erykah Badu

"The art of interpretation is not to play what is written"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"If it has more than three chords, it's jazz"

Lou Reed, Musician

"There is an integrity to INXS, in the music, that makes it worthwhile"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

"A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really"

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

"Royalties are not how most writers or musicians make their living. Musicians by and large make a living with a relationship with an audience that is economically harnessed through performance and ticket sales"

John Perry Barlow, Writer

John Perry Barlow

"You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I'm living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel"

Ville Valo, Musician

Ville Valo

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics"

Ken Burns, Director

Ken Burns

"Hip-hop is a vehicle"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it"

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

"There's no business like show business"

Irving Berlin, Musician

"Music has just as much to do with movement and body as it does soul and intellect"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl, which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance"

Saul Williams, Musician

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind"

Brian May, Musician

"Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining"

Ice Cube, Musician

"All those years we'd spent learning these chops, and all those gigs in Germany where you'd play all night, and along comes punk. It has nothing to do with that. A lot of people went out of business"

Nick Lowe, Musician

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