Famous Quotes & Sayings

Doc Watson

When Merle and I started out we called our music 'traditional plus,' meaning the traditional music of the Appalachian region plus whatever other styles we were in the mood to play.

Diane Warren

I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!

Hunter Hayes

I want people to say about me, 'I know he's making music because he loves it.'

Ronnie Wood

Songs are out there - they're waiting to be grabbed. I start with a phrase, musical and lyrical, words like 'I don't think so' and a nice riff. It rolls from there.

Robert Glasper

The music is going to die if you don't tap into something that people today can relate to.

Rivers Cuomo

Probably the most reliable comfort music for me over the years has been Bach.

Rivers Cuomo

I listen to music a lot on the treadmill - I would test 'Raditude' songs out on the treadmill.

Shawn Amos

Many cities make music, but no city breathes music quite like Memphis. The songs and sounds that come from here are uniquely American.

Dalton Trumbo

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them....

Cy Coleman

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Cyndi Lauper

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

David Byrne

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

David Byrne

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

David Byrne

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Dave Matthews

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Dave Matthews

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.

Dave Matthews

...Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head...

Dave Matthews

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

Dave Eggers

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

David Lindsay-Abaire

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

David Lee Roth

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Dave Van Ronk

Most blues don't have a beginning, middle, or end. You just cut a couple slices of blues.

Dave Van Ronk

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Dave Grohl

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Dave Grohl

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

David O. McKay

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

Danger Mouse

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

Coleman Hawkins

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Coleman Hawkins

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Coleman Hawkins

Music should always be an adventure.