Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"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

"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

"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

"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 can change the world because it can change people"

Bono, 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

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

John Armstrong, Soldier

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

Dwayne Hickman, Actor

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

Slash, 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

"Sound is the vocabulary of nature"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

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

Loretta Lynn, Musician

"Music embodies feeling without forcing it to contend and combine with thought, as it is forced in most arts and especially in the art of words"

Franz Liszt, Composer

"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

"Take a sound from whatever source, a note on a violin, a scream, a moan, a creaking door, and there is always this symmetry between the sound basis, which is complex and has numerous characteristics which emerge through a process of comparison within our perception"

Pierre Schaeffer, Composer

"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

"The spirit of jazz is the spirit of openness"

Herbie Hancock, Musician

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

Herbie Hancock, Musician

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

Hoagy Carmichael, Composer

"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

"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

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

Hector Berlioz, Composer

"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

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Musician

"Since I was seventeen I thought I might be a star. I'd think about all my heroes, Charlie Parker, Jimi Hendrix... I had a romantic feeling about how these people became famous"

Jean-Michel Basquiat, Artist

"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

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