Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

Herbie Hancock

"Music happens to be an art form that transcends language"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

Herbie Hancock

"In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers"

Hoagy Carmichael, Composer

Hoagy Carmichael

"Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye, but they are clothed in the right forms, harmonies, and orchestration"

Johannes Brahms, Composer

"I always loved rock guitar. I just never put it together that that's what I'd end up doing. I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since"

Slash, Musician

Slash

"The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it: Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you"

Hoagy Carmichael, Composer

Hoagy Carmichael

"Music can change the world because it can change people"

Bono, Musician

Bono

"You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds"

Steve Forbert, Musician

"Elvis was rock'n'roll. He came from the poverty and the pain"

Link Wray, Musician

"If you had ever heard my album, you would know that I could never consider the music business!"

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

Dwayne Hickman

"Music stops you from thinking"

Peter Weir, Director

"Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry"

Charles Kelley, Musician

"Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints"

Loretta Lynn, Musician

Loretta Lynn

"Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together"

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me"

Billie Joe Armstrong, Musician

Billie Joe Armstrong

"We love all kinds of music: We love pop music, we love rock music, we love R & B and country, and we just pull from all our influences. So I don't really take offense as long as people are coming out to the shows and buying the records and becoming fans of the music. At the end of the day, the music is what's gonna speak to you"

Charles Kelley, Musician

"Singing is a way of escaping. It's another world. I'm no longer on earth"

Edith Piaf, Musician

"If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing"

Aaliyah, Musician

Aaliyah

"Our albums just tend to be collections of songs, really, because we all write in the group, all four of us"

John Deacon, Musician

"Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material"

John Deacon, Musician

"I happen to think that computers are the most important thing to happen to musicians since the invention of cat-gut, which was a long time ago"

Robert Moog, Inventor

"Music was important. Football was the easy part"

Zinedine Zidane, Athlete

"One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"Jazz is a music of great achievements, but speed and chops serve a different function in jazz"

Marc Ribot, Musician

"Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love"

Hector Berlioz, Composer

Hector Berlioz

"I begin by considering an effect"

Maurice Ravel, Composer

"Obviously, the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"Manchester has its own pride and London has its sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time"

Elvis Costello, Musician

"I dare suggest that the composer would do himself and his music an immediate and eventual service by total, resolute, and voluntary withdrawal from this public world to one of private performance and electronic media"

Milton Babbitt, Composer

"Originally, I wanted to be a composer. I always tell people, 'I think of myself as a composer.'"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better"

Maurice Gibb, Musician

"The type of music I like to sing is really those classic songs: those Barbara Streisand, Celine Dion, Frank Sinatra, classics"

Jacob Lusk, Musician

"I love Mary Chapin Carpenter songs. I love her songs 'Come On, Come On' and 'I Am A Town', they're two of my favorite songs"

Betty Buckley, Actress

"There is no such thing as a wrong note"

Art Tatum, Musician

Art Tatum

"I'll always be a Backstreet Boy"

Brian Littrell, Musician

Brian Littrell

"I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed"

B. B. King, Musician

"The only thing better than singing is more singing"

Ella Fitzgerald, Musician

"There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between"

Thomas Beecham, Composer

Thomas Beecham

"I wanted to do the whole album in black and white, and it really killed me that when you see it in the light it's got green in it. I don't know what the hell that was about"

Nuno Bettencourt, Musician

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