Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"They look for the top note to end every song. They don't know what they are singing about. There is no style"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs"

Frankie Avalon, Actor

"I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn't, then why would you say I am?"

Eminem, Musician

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

Pablo Casals, Musician

"Music will save the world"

Pablo Casals, Musician

"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

"You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar"

Sid Vicious, Musician

"Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music"

Gioachino Rossini, Composer

"It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up"

Neil Peart, Musician

"Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily want to listen to it"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I'm not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper"

Brian Eno, Musician

"I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol"

Taylor Swift, Musician

"I don't personally see my work as being dark. What interests me is a balance between light and dark"

Carter Burwell, Composer

"First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it"

Waylon Jennings, Musician

"Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... You hear them and they're affixed to you"

Carlos Santana, Musician

"Punk is not dead. Punk will only die when corporations can exploit and mass produce it"

Jello Biafra, Musician

"A librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera"

Robertson Davies, Novelist

"I think Andy Kaufman is to comedy what the Velvet Underground was to music - it's like, 80 thousand records sold, but everybody who bought one started a band"

Courtney Love, Musician

"I might lie a lot but never in my lyrics"

Courtney Love, Musician

"But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul"

Courtney Love, Musician

"As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to"

Talib Kweli, Musician

"They believed you can't mix rock, country, and rap, and that crossover is dead. I always knew it would work. And it will always work as long as you're really into it and like what you're doing"

Kid Rock, Musician

"There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"But I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom"

Buddy Rich, Musician

"Los Angeles is just a more open place. The way L.A. functions is that people give you a forum. They say: Show us what you can do"

Esa-Pekka Salonen, Musician

"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague"

John Armstrong, Soldier

"I think possibly the first film that has music as its leading character"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes"

Jonny Greenwood, Musician

"In America, music is more tightly categorized"

Ednita Nazario, Musician

"And, more important, none of Paul's music feels unfamiliar to me"

Ednita Nazario, Musician

"How you act, walk, look and talk is all part of Hip Hop culture. And the music is colorless. Hip Hop music is made from Black, brown, yellow, red and white"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music"

Afrika Bambaataa, Musician

"To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance"

Keith Richards, Musician

"To be truly iconic, you need to be able to be recognized in a silhouette"

Slash, Musician

"We're doing Circle of Snakes, we open up with Skin Carver and we are throwing in Skull Forest later on"

Glenn Danzig, Musician

"Listen, kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies"

Irving Berlin, Musician

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

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