Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed"

Steve Albini, Musician

"By now all rock bands are wise enough to be suspicious of music industry scum"

Steve Albini, Musician

"But duets are a lot of fun, I'd love to do another one"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"I didn't tour Europe because I didn't have any label support"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record"

Lita Ford, Musician

"So I played the acoustic guitar and harmonica and stomped my foot and I think I was right in assuming that Greenwich Village would be the best place to perform my own material and possibly get some attention, move on to making records and all"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down"

Hector Berlioz, Composer

"I don't think events in your life affect your music"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I was not influenced by composers as much as by natural objects and physical phenomena"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover"

Shakira, Musician

"We have no general conceptual thrust for the band, other than trying to make music that keeps our interest. When things are novel, they are probably things we have discovered by accident or investigation rather than by design"

Steve Albini, Musician

"In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record"

Steve Albini, Musician

"When we did concerts, we wanted them to be theatrical events - collaborations with designers, choreographers, and directors - because we thought traditional rock concerts were boring"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Since we started, Chris and I had theatrical ambitions"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with"

Michael Davis, Writer

"I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time"

Lita Ford, Musician

"You're stuck in front of the microphone. You can't use your hands. I like to do things"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I was eleven and I wanted to play it because it was in my blood. It was a feeling I couldn't deny"

Lita Ford, Musician

"I have a lot of female fans"

Lita Ford, Musician

"Don't get me wrong, I've seen some very excellent women musicians"

Lita Ford, Musician

"There is an idea, the basis of an internal structure, expanded and split into different shapes or groups of sound constantly changing in shape, direction, and speed, attracted and repulsed by various forces"

Edgard Varese, Composer

"When my opera Plump Jack was performed in 1989, my first piano teacher sent me something that I'd composed when I was four. I remember I played it, and it still sounded like me. I'm the same composer I was then"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano"

Gordon Getty, Businessman

"I don't think anyone has exhausted the range of sound possible in a conventional rock band, but people do become slaves to their own easiest techniques"

Steve Albini, Musician

"Find people who think like you and stick with them. Make only music you are passionate about. Work only with people you like and trust. Don't sign anything"

Steve Albini, Musician

"I love making music and I'm falling in love with making records, so it's like having two girlfriends. But I can handle it"

Snoop Dogg, Musician

"I didn't have an agent, I didn't have a headshot. I didn't even know if anyone would know where to find me. I just went back to highschool and started playing with my band"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences"

Steve Albini, Musician

"I have never stopped playing music"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"At this point, I think I would garner a lot of hate mail if I was now on the cover of Modern Drummer seeing as I'm not a modern drummer anymore"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"It's better for me to play with guys because Rock 'n' Roll has such an aggressive attitude"

Lita Ford, Musician

"What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear"

Sinead O'Connor, Musician

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