Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"I also used these realistic sounds in a psychological way. With The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, I used animal sounds - as you say, the coyote sound - so the sound of the animal became the main theme of the movie"

Ennio Morricone, Composer

"To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio"

Arturo Toscanini, Musician

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory"

Muddy Waters, Musician

"I've been playing with Blackwell over 20 years. We used to play when I first went to Los Angeles. Blackwell plays the drums as if he's playing a wind instrument. Actually, he sounds more like a talking drum"

Ornette Coleman, Musician

"Stevie Ray Vaughan was very intense. Maybe that's what caught everybody's attention. As a player, he didn't do anything amazing"

Ritchie Blackmore, Musician

"I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"Music is really all about experimentation and lots of trial and error. It's just mind-numbingly boring until you hit on something that works well"

Martin Gore, Musician

"Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records"

Grandmaster Flash, Musician

"However, in modern conceptual frameworks there is a more sophisticated view. I would say that the act of music exists in several worlds simultaneously"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"The adrenaline of a live performance is unlike anything in film or theater. I can see why it's so addictive"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

"Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived"

Charley Pride, Athlete

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life"

Berthold Auerbach, Author

"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations"

Billy Bragg, Musician

"I'm not interested in being famous. I'm interested in making good music"

David Gilmour, Musician

"I've found that the most important thing in music is the silence between the notes"

Wayne Shorter, Musician

"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers"

Roy Ayers, Musician

"Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper"

Toru Takemitsu, Composer

"I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want"

Jon Fishman, Musician

"It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play"

Dizzy Gillespie, Musician

"Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself"

Lesley Garrett, Musician

"I haven't a great jazz band, and I don't want one"

Glenn Miller, Musician

"It's really the sound of the voices, the sound of the words, the sound of the sound that we're interested in"

Anne Dudley, Composer

"Altamont... I remember all of that. That was an awful day"

Mick Taylor, Musician

"I thought the '60s was the most exciting time and the most vital music, and we were really together as one mind then. Then afterwards, the songs and the bad drugs, that took its toll!"

Mickey Hart, Musician

"Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music"

John Coltrane, Musician

"Ultimately, at the end of it, it's just trying to get into that space where you feel like you're hitting the right thing and you're making music. And it feels intuitive rather than being counterintuitive"

Charlie Hunter, Musician

"I tried to learn the violin for a while"

Peter Wright, Celebrity

"I really like listening to music in my car"

Aaron Neville, Musician

"I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform, it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories"

Nat King Cole, Musician

"Songs used to be short, then they became longer, and now they're getting shorter. But otherwise, music is about a beat and a message. If the beat gets to the audience, and the message touches them, you've got a hit"

Casey Kasem, Actor

"I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!"

Arnold Schoenberg, Composer

"I'm much more of a musician than a poet. I just feel much more confident about my musical abilities"

Mary Timony, Musician

"I named it that because more or less each person from the band used to play in other bands, and when we left respective bands, other members from those bands all sort of changed round. It was a big sort of move thing. I got it from that, I suppose"

Roy Wood, Musician

"I sometimes get that wonderful sympathy between me and the audience, telling me I've reached their hearts. And when I do, the thrill is mine"

Kate Smith, Musician

"It is never right to play ragtime fast"

Scott Joplin, Composer

"I started singing at the Met when I was seven, and the competition was so fierce that it really prepared me"

Emily Rossum

"That's what I do... Some people smoke weed, some people smoke cigarettes, some people snort coke... I pop pills, I smoke and I drink syrup, that's my twist"

Beanie Sigel, Musician

"I began thinking I would do musical theater because in high school that was really the only sort of curriculum they had as far as getting onstage and doing anything that anybody would see. So that's what I did"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

"Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career"

Alexander Borodin, Composer

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