First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos SantanaHe that lives in hope dances without music.
George HerbertI bought it [hit me with your rhythm stick] because it was an effing great song.
It brings back good memories, like all music the song stands the test of time. I would buy it today.
Luke GossBallroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony
Anton Du BekeAll music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song
Louis ArmstrongFor me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula ColeOne of the greatest gifts you can have through your music and as a result of it is to truly be able to touch people with what you say and sing.
George GroveGay nightclubs offer better dance music than straight clubs, in my experience!
Jack DavenportThree things that I've always wanted to play are a musician, a superhero, and a professional athlete.
Danny NucciMusic begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra PoundI have always loved music and feel blessed to be one of those few people who have been able to share my music with others.
Kenny GThe BBC were not playing the music that was happening on the street so we did an independent production because we knew we had an audience.
Georgie FameA leader faces the music even when they don't like the tune.
AnonymousLearning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano PavarottiCountry fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad. [unless you don't like country music in which case it's a solid strategy]
George JonesThe memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.
Louis ArmstrongThere are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.
Amy LeeI like music, too, I like playing music.
Beau BridgesAs Eric Dolphy said "Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone". And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.
John AbercrombieI came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.
Mick JaggerOn fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay."
Neil FoxMy music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor StravinskyI didn't plan on rock-and-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
Robby KriegerOur music has depth, and attempts philosophical thought and meaning with discussions of infinity, eternity and mortality. [Not taking it all a bit too seriously, I hope?]
David GilmourIn Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz LisztI enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.
Leeann TweedenIt is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by the pull of opposites - opposite bents, tastes, yearnings, loyalties.
Eric HofferI have always enjoyed being a classical musician and was never tempted into something more mainstream.
Vanessa MaeMusic is not just something that moves you, it is something that has the power to change you, and that is very powerful indeed.
Hank JonesMusic is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.
Lester BowieIt's no go the merrygoround, it's no go the rickshaw,
All we want is a limousine and a ticket for the peep show. ['Bagpipe Music']
Louis MacNeiceRight. For me, music is an image. Lyrics aren't important. If music itself conveys messages, lyrics are unnecessary, though I don't try to get rid of lyrics... If right words don't occur to me, there's no need to put lyrics.
Faye WongMy personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Dame Edith SitwellEnglish culture has always allowed room for the freedom to express, especially through fashion, and the punk era has remained a strong influence on British attitudes, art and music.
Shaun LeaneDo not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Robert AshleyThe day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
Maynard FergusonHey, I'm not Hollywood. I don’t live in Hollywood... I live in the UK...and I’m not an actress...yeah ok I’ve met some Hollywood actors but I’m into music, I’m not part of the 'acting scene'... I was in a movie 2 years ago and I was the worst actress ever...so I’m not Hollywood at all.
Fabiola GattiMusic is all that I can do, I can't say that there is anything else that I really know how to do, as it were.
Neil FinnA sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry MooreWho hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert BrowningSilence is more musical than any song.
Christina RossettiI love music passionately. And because I love it I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it.
Claude DebussyMusic, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Frank ZappaThere's sure no passion in the human soul, But finds its food in music
George LilloI've been teaching people on the set of the Sound of Music for several weeks and they can't dance like that! [complicating Peter Schmeichel]
Arlene PhillipsCountry music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.
Shania TwainAny good music must be an innovation.
Les BaxterGreat music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.
Rebecca WestMusic, the mosaic of the air
Andrew MarvellApplause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry
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