Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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

Frank Sinatra, Musician

Frank Sinatra

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

Louis Armstrong, Musician

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

Terry Riley, Composer

Terry Riley

"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

"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

"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

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

Richard Strauss, Composer

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

Michael Hutchence, Musician

Michael Hutchence

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

Lou Reed, Musician

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

Lenny Kravitz

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

Pablo Casals, Musician

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

Sid Vicious, Musician

"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 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

"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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais, Inventor

"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

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

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"There's no business like show business"

Irving Berlin, Musician

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

Saul Williams, Musician

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

Johannes Brahms, Composer

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

Brian May, 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

"I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway"

Evan Parker, Musician

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

Ice Cube, Musician

"I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television"

Quincy Jones, Musician

Quincy Jones

"You're only as big as your last hit"

Chris Squire, Musician

"Aesthetically, we were enormously successful. Economically... there was no success. It was all about music of the future and unfortunately it was a band that didn't have any future"

Wayne Kramer, Writer

"Music is not a commodity, it's a resource"

Michelle Shocked, Musician

"I've always been into melodies. That's what I love about music - a good melody that gives you goosebumps"

Kygo, Musician

Kygo

"I think I write songs that are like diary entries, and that's why people relate to them"

Ed Sheeran, Musician

Ed Sheeran

"I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends"

Dan Fogelberg, Musician

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

Willie Dixon, Musician

"In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor"

Leo Ornstein, Composer

"The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional"

Klaus Schulze, Composer

Klaus Schulze

"In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain"

George Szell, Composer

George Szell

"Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through"

Cecil Taylor, Musician

Cecil Taylor

"I want the Arabic Granada, that which is art, which is all that seems to me beauty and emotion"

Isaac Albeniz, Musician

Isaac Albeniz

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