Music quotes:
- "I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know ..."
By: Bryan Adams - "I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. "
By: Bryan Adams - "Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below. "
By: Joseph Addison - "Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense. "
By: Joseph Addison - "Since I left school, I've been working on my music career. I would love to ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "When I was a freshman in high school, my drama teacher, an incredible, inspirational genius, ..."
By: Casey Affleck - "Pop is actually my least favorite kind of music, because it lacks real depth. "
By: Christina Aguilera - "I could have a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could ..."
By: Clay Aiken - "As Governor, I could think of only one way to unify our State that was ..."
By: Lamar Alexander - "It is a rare American who does not have some story about how music has ..."
By: Lamar Alexander - "As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the ..."
By: Debbie Allen - "I'll tell you, my music has always sounded like this. "
By: G. G. Allin - "I look in music magazines now and see things on Luther Allison, and my name's ..."
By: Luther Allison - "I mean, look how many musicians have come through and played beside me, and I'm ..."
By: Luther Allison - "What I want to do, is play music for somebody who believe in me. "
By: Luther Allison - "I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I ..."
By: Marc Almond - "I was lucky enough to get a brilliant producer for the album, Andrej Samsonov who ..."
By: Marc Almond - "Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was ..."
By: Marc Almond - "We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity ..."
By: Marc Almond - "He has a method that likens the musician to an athlete, so I do physical ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "I confess that I listen to my own music for my own pleasure. "
By: Herb Alpert - "I like to listen to classical music... I like mainline jazz. "
By: Herb Alpert - "I was taken in by the bravado and the sounds of Mexico... not so much ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "In spite of everything that's happened to me being a musician, playing trumpet provided me ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "Instrumental music can spread the international language. "
By: Herb Alpert - "It's - as opposed to tape where you have a magnetic tape that's excited by ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "Latin instruments have always been a part in my music, but I never felt a ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "No, I am into great musicians... like to surround myself with them... I like to ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "Selfishly, I make music for me. I like to make music. I like looking for ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected ..."
By: Herb Alpert - "The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the ..."
By: Henri Frederic Amiel - "To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we ..."
By: Henri Frederic Amiel - "I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last. "
By: David Amram - "I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young ..."
By: David Amram
- "I would listen very hard to what he was reading, and on the spot create ..."
By: David Amram - "In a jazz atmosphere, the audience members were so quiet and respectful of the musicians ..."
By: David Amram - "In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling ..."
By: David Amram - "One of my first heroes was Leopold Stokowski, the conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In ..."
By: David Amram - "So, having been turned down there, we decided to do it at the Brata Art ..."
By: David Amram - "That by listening to some music, by reading some books, by looking at paintings, and ..."
By: David Amram - "That is what I did with Jack, and that's why he liked to do the ..."
By: David Amram - "When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some ..."
By: David Amram - "Even where music is concerned, my basic love for R&B hasn't changed, but lately I've ..."
By: Namie Amuro - "Yes that's right. I, personally, like rap and hip hop music; doing this is diversing ..."
By: Namie Amuro - "A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children. "
By: Ian Anderson - "Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in ..."
By: Michael P. Anderson - "After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "I like the word of someone that takes part, who is a singer in something ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something ..."
By: Victoria de los Angeles - "Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl ..."
By: Maya Angelou - "All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. "
By: Louis Armstrong - "Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. "
By: Louis Armstrong - "The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician. Things like old folks ..."
By: Louis Armstrong - "At school I was pretty sociable, but I did like to come home and be ..."
By: Dido Armstrong - "I met Billy Goldenberg, my musical director and composer, who's earned 32 Emmy nominations by ..."
By: Beatrice Arthur - "I've done musical revues mostly. "
By: Beatrice Arthur - "Except I really wanted to be a small little blonde musical type in the movies. ..."
By: Bea Arthur - "Yes, but I've done musical revues mostly. "
By: Bea Arthur - "Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. "
By: Mary Kay Ash - "I would love to be able to pursue music as a career but honestly, I'm ..."
By: Shawn Ashmore - "The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the ..."
By: Rene Auberjonois - "A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it ..."
By: W. H. Auden - "Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell. "
By: W. H. Auden
- "Music is the best means we have of digesting time. "
By: W. H. Auden - "Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared ..."
By: John James Audubon - "The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. "
By: Marcus Aurelius - "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. "
By: Laurie Anderson - "The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only ..."
By: Fiona Apple - "I love Christmas. I really do love Christmas. I love being with my family and ..."
By: Christina Applegate - "Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. "
By: Berthold Auerbach - "I feel sorry for those kids who never got to see an early VAN HALEN ..."
By: Sebastian Bach - "I listen to music for emotion and I get zero emotion from rap. "
By: Sebastian Bach - "I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. "
By: Sebastian Bach - "Metal is still the biggest music now in America. "
By: Sebastian Bach - "The only kind of music that I want to do is good music, because I ..."
By: Sebastian Bach - "You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at ..."
By: Sebastian Bach - "I remember sitting next to a girl, a woman, on a flight a few years ..."
By: Burt Bacharach - "I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I ..."
By: Burt Bacharach - "It kicked the wind out of me, that movie. You just don't make a movie ..."
By: Burt Bacharach - "The music is the last thing I'm thinking about right now, in order of what's ..."
By: Burt Bacharach - "I wouldn't want to be ideological about it but I think of it as being ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "I'd like trios and quartets actually, but I like duos because a lot of musicians ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "It seems to me that the general scene that free improvisers work in now is ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "Personally, I've found that the kind of thing that I like is going into somebody ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much. "
By: Derek Bailey - "Younger players in this music often turn out to be middle aged; it is not ..."
By: Derek Bailey - "If we looked at the symphony orchestra, it is still basically European music prior to ..."
By: David Baker - "In retrospect I realize that the threat was about ego rather than the validity of ..."
By: David Baker - "It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice. "
By: David Baker - "The instructors were often neophytes at teaching us, but they possessed the information. We used ..."
By: David Baker - "There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and ..."
By: John Baldacci - "I want to do all types of music, music for all people. I want my ..."
By: Fantasia Barrino - "My son does not appreciate classical musicians such as the Stones; he is more into ..."
By: Dave Barry - "Speaking of music: We also had our consciousness raised several feet by the experience of ..."
By: Dave Barry - "Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. ..."
By: Cecilia Bartoli - "Age of Enlightenment is a fantastic orchestra, of course, but also Freiburg Baroque Orchestra with ..."
By: Cecilia Bartoli
