Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"There are seven songs finished and on par with any that are on Siren's"

Peter Hook, Musician

"The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!"

Peter Hook, Musician

"When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist"

Nina Simone, Musician

"I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling"

Jon Bon Jovi, Musician

"Whenever I fill out the job description, I put 'songwriter,' never 'singer' or 'artist.' Singers come and go"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"Stevie didn't use the technology to drive the song. He used it to enhance. I use the tools to further my work, I don't use my work to further the tools"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"I'm really lucky that my record companies have been patient with me, and leave me alone, and give me the time to make it right in my mind"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I sort of feel like music saved my life when I was young. This is the one thing that I knew I was good at"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I play piano every day"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"Well, I'm a tape-recording nut. I like to play my tapes"

Tony Randall, Actor

"It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart"

Karl Barth, Theologian

"They amaze me, most of those remixes. Some of them are crap. But every time I complain, someone comes up and says they are for a different market that you don't understand. Some of the New Order ones are really great, though"

Peter Hook, Musician

"I think that you have to bear in mind that music is about escape, and it's not unreasonable to think the music business would be based around escapism"

Peter Hook, Musician

"There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do"

James Levine, Musician

"You can't listen to what people who aren't musical have to say. When Anytime was released, I had bad reviews, and at first I was hurt. Your songs are like your children. You don't want to hear, 'Your kid is ugly.' But I knew the record was good and it would sell"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"Be-bop wasn't developed in any deliberate way"

Thelonious Monk, Musician

"As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation"

James Levine, Musician

"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"I believe I can sing anything"

Miriam Makeba, Musician

"Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life to music, and it was that teacher who introduced me to his world"

Nina Simone, Musician

"Perhaps, once I am gone, the one thing I might be remembered for is having sung a great deal of Mahler with a great many phenomenal conductors. It is wonderful music, very spiritual"

Maureen Forrester, Musician

"A lot of people are singing about how screwed up the world is, and I don't think that everybody wants to hear about that all the time"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"I don't mind being compared to Whitney, there are people miles worse to be compared to"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"It has to be able to play at the maximum expression and communication in every style, and the only way you can do that is - like Verdi said - working with a file, every day, little by little, until the orchestra's collective qualities emerge"

James Levine, Musician

"First, it doesn't surprise me that traditional music has experienced a kind of exhaustion in the 20th century - not forgetting that many musicians started to look outside the traditional structures of tonality"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"Actually, when we stopped New Order I was busier than ever. The only gaps have been while we've been writing"

Peter Hook, Musician

"Noises have generally been thought of as indistinct, but this is not true"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"Most of the stuff I learned to play, I learned in high school. I had a band in high school, a jazz-fusion thing, and I was the keyboard player. I was interested in how the instruments worked and the theory behind playing with them"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"Lionel Richie told me, Forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"He knows I rip him off every day. He's the godfather for me. Nobody can say they aren't influenced by what Stevie Wonder has done"

Brian McKnight, Musician

"We don't to be some kind of rock supergroup for the sake of being a supergroup. You want to change things and say something fresh and new so you appeal to people as a new group"

Peter Hook, Musician

"I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

"I've heard myself referred to as a quiet superstar, and I don't quite know what that means"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I write music all the time. When I talk about having writer's block, it's more to do with lyrics than anything else"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"I think, often, sadness is a great place to get songs from"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings"

Rita Dove, Poet

"That's it really, at the moment I wouldn't say I was influenced by any one thing in particular"

Peter Hook, Musician

"We showed the industry that female artists could attract the same audiences as the big male stars"

Sarah McLachlan, Musician

"We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

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