Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

If there was no ladies, I wouldn't wanna be on the planet. Ladies, friends, and music - without those three, I wouldn't wanna be here.

David Crosby

Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back wall with two-inch spikes... I promptly fell in love with her...

David Crosby

Neil Young played Helpless, and by the time he finished, we were asking him if we could join his band

Derek Bailey

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

Billy Strayhorn

All music is beautiful.

Brendan Fletcher

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

Brendon Urie

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Becky G

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Ben Barnes

When I was younger I didn't really know what genre of music I'd want to do because I'd always done so many different types, so many impressions.

Boy George

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

Big Sean

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

Chris Robinson

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Chris Robinson

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Chris Robinson

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Christo

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Dave Grohl

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.

Dev Hynes

When I was recording music, I'd record all the parts myself, and I wouldn't let other people in; that's essentially what Blood Orange is the result of; me trying to find the most comfortable I can be with everything.

Ray Charles

Music is powerful. As people listen to it, they can be affected. They respond.

Nile Rodgers

Music has to keep moving. But I was lucky. For me there was always something around the corner.

Feist

For me, music is in the choice of what not to play as much as in what you've chosen to play.

Eric Clapton

My dedication to my music has driven everyone away. I've had girlfriends, but I always end up on my own. I don't particularly like it, but I don't see a way 'round it.

Chang-Rae Lee

I don't listen to music while writing; it seems to me I'm trying to make my own kind of music, and to have anything else going on is just noisy interference.

Charles Hazlewood

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

Emma McLaughlin

I can't listen to anything when I write, not even the TV. I do have to listen to music when I drive, though.

Estelle

With my music, I don't have to stay in one lane. One day I'm in Motown, and the next day I'm in reggae.

Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion.

Vonda Shepard

I have played lots of clubs since I was 14, but I always did my own music.

Vonda Shepard

I can't really stop doing the music because it really feeds me.

Wolfman Jack

I'm not crazy about the rap thing. Or house music.

Sarah McLachlan

I can look back over my earlier music, and it takes me back to the place I was emotionally.

Sarah McLachlan

I've always been incredibly lucky that the music that I make, other people like it.

My music is tonally based. There is plenty of dissonance, but it's used as a contrast. There is polytonality at times and a lot of rhythmic interplay.

I work on myself daily to be a better person. When I react in a negative way to somebody, I sit back and think about why I did it, so I'm always working on myself, and my music is the same.