Arts, Media & Entertainment: Music Quotes

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"Esquire, in a July 1957 issue, has a photograph of me playing the French horn at the Five Spot"

David Amram, Composer

"I feel like my music is just an extension of my acting. I treat the songs like scenes that tell a story... it's very similar. My favorite thing is when cartoon fans show up to my live gigs! They are always the most kick-butt audience members 'cause they're not trying to act all cool like a lot of the music fans do! It's refreshing!!"

Grey DeLisle, Musician

"If you think you've hit a false note, sing loud. When in doubt, sing loud"

Robert Merrill, Musician

"I get nervous when I don't get nervous. If I'm nervous, I know I'm going to have a good show"

Beyonce Knowles, Musician

Beyonce Knowles

"What I like best about music is when time goes away"

Bob Weir, Musician

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you"

Charlie Parker, Musician

"One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool"

Dave Lombardo, Musician

"We've been able to have our cake and eat it, too. Every song, every T-shirt, is absolutely a pure expression of what we want to do. And it connects"

Tom Morello, Musician

"A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of the art"

Charles Rosen, Musician

"I think I came across Cecil Taylor a bit later, in 65 or 66. That really impressed me - Cecil Taylor is an amazing character... Both his music and the way he approaches the instrument are astonishing"

Luc Ferrari, Composer

"But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me"

Jimmy Chamberlin, Musician

Jimmy Chamberlin

"After playing now for 60 years, it's still very challenging for me to play a simple melody and have it clean and touch the reed at the proper time in the proper way"

Lee Konitz, Musician

"I came to Baku the same way I would go to Texas - because they asked me to come and play hip hop"

Coolio, Musician

"Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing"

Ann Wilson, Musician

"I think music is what takes the experience off the screen into your soul, into your head"

Matthew Vaughn, Producer

"I saw Suicide in '74 and it was pretty horrifying"

Robert Quine, Musician

"If you have a recital to do, you have to memorize the songs. I never use music when I do recitals. It produces an instant barrier, both for yourself and the audience"

Bryn Terfel, Musician

"If there is any justice in the world, then eighties rock will never again serve to blight humanity as it did in that dark decade!"

Vivian Campbell, Musician

"You know, if you really want to fiddle the old-time way, you've got to learn the dance. The contra-dances, hoedowns. It's all in the rhythm of the bow. The great North Carolina fiddle player Tommy Jarrell said, 'If a feller can't bow, he'll never make a fiddler. He might make a violin player, but he'll never make no fiddler'"

Alison Krauss, Musician

"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar"

Rick Springfield, Musician

"Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it"

John Corigliano, Composer

"Your average pop song or film is a very sophisticated item, with very sophisticated ways of listening and viewing that we have not really consciously developed over the years - because we were having such a good time"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

Paul Muldoon

"The Austin music scene is the reason why so many of them moved here"

Bob Livingston, Politician

"We played at a club called the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life"

Jim Capaldi, Musician

"My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions"

Plato, Philosopher

Plato

"A lot of people can't stand touring, but to me it's like breathing. I do it because I'm driven to do it"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"The radio makes hideous sounds"

Bob Dylan, Musician

Bob Dylan

"It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact, you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music"

Ursula K. Le Guin, Writer

Ursula K. Le Guin

"When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"Music is the melody whose text is the world"

Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

Jimi Hendrix

"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is: does the man project and does he have ideas?"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"I'll play it and tell you what it is later"

Miles Davis, Musician

Miles Davis

"Music exists for the purpose of growing an admirable heart"

Shinichi Suzuki, Musician

Shinichi Suzuki

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians"

Frank Zappa, Musician

Frank Zappa

"I'm a bit of a groupie"

Jerry Hall, Model

Jerry Hall

"Music fathoms the sky"

Charles Baudelaire, Poet

Charles Baudelaire

"I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

"Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning"

Elvis Presley, Musician

Elvis Presley

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