Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase"

Stendhal, Writer

"I'm not really into rap"

Magnus Carlsen

"Marvin Gaye is one of my favorite revolutionaries. He spoke from his heart, his mind. That's what I want to do"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores; I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"Music and the music business are two different things"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I started performing at two or three on a tape recorder, one of those little flat recorders where you just push play and record"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I'm a synthesist. I'm always making music. And I make a lot of different kinds of music all the time. Some of it gets finished and some of it doesn't"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I have absolutely no difficulty myself with the playing of God Save the Queen in the presence of Her Majesty"

John Howard, Statesman

"I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer"

Richard Strauss, Composer

"From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Hopefully my music is medicine, some type of antidote for something, or some kind of explanation, or just to feel good"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I knew it would happen. I knew I'd be No. 1. I'm a new artist; I don't know the rules. Nobody told me it wouldn't happen!"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I grew up listening to old soul"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I don't read music or anything, so when I produce, I go basically by ear"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"No, I always felt that amongst my core fans- because there was a level of popularity that I had in the mid '80s that was sort of a bump on the scale- they fundamentally understood the values that are at work in my work"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing, I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you, but there's also innocence in the process of being lost"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I'll dabble here and there in different forms of the art, but the label has me locked down like a slave, so, of course, I'll be doing albums during this time"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I love putting the music together. It's like art"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I don't feel like I need to preach to the world or nothing like that. I just feel like I share what I say, and if listeners get it, they get it. And I never underestimate the audience's ability to feel me"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"As Erykah Badu, it has nothing to do with me, the way I look, my hair wrap, my style, it's about you and what you feel for my music. If I can make you feel like the way that people who influenced me made me feel, that's completion"

Erykah Badu, Musician

"I have my ideas, I have my music, and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"The release date is just one day, but the record is forever"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"Music, my rampart, and my only one"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band, but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune"

Bruce Springsteen, Musician

"Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music"

Paul McCartney, Musician

"It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel", I thought, this is it"

Paul McCartney, Musician

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