As an artist, you dream about accumulating enough successful music to someday do just one greatest-hits album, but to reach the point where you're releasing your second collection of hits is beyond belief.
Gloria EstefanHey, 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 GattiThe 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 FameJazz is known all over the world as an American musical art form and that's it. No America, no jazz.
Art BlakeyCharacter is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture or the blending notes of music which constitute the man.
John MacDuffBut I struck one chord of music,
Like the sounds of a great Amen. (A Lost Chord)
Adelaide Ann ProcterAnd I try and accept all kind of music, and I love ballads, funk, soul, jazz, even calypso music I enjoy sometimes.
Dennis BrownI'm proud to be a woman. I feel a lot stronger, a lot sexier and I think that all of that is reflected in my music.
Lisa StansfieldI find it hard to work with other musicians because I know from experience that when they play, they play with their feeling, and that restricts me because I know I want to play in my own particular way.
EnyaIt was music to the ears and the eyes! To be on the grid just minutes before the race starts, to see those polished cars and the guys get ready - and then hear the noise as they start their engines...
Victoria BeckhamWhen you're young, music gets intrinsically linked to emotions and circumstance, so that record brings back many a memory of intoxication and naughtiness.
Adam FicekEvery man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
Samuel ButlerWe're inspired by such an eclectic mix of musicians that it's hard to categorise us.
Soren Corneliussen'Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
Ben JonsonA sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry MooreThere is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roarI love not Man the less, but Nature more.
Lord ByronI consider everything I compose a gift. [Modest assessment of his music!]
Keith EmersonThere is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.
Duke EllingtonIn 1962 when rejecting the Beatles "we don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out"
Decca RecordingThe music business has let me touch a lot of people with my talent.
Britney SpearsI have always enjoyed being a classical musician and was never tempted into something more mainstream.
Vanessa MaeCanned music is like audible wallpaper.
Alistair CookeWe're lucky to have the family connection. We're close and close musically as well
Caroline CorrMusic is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
Jean Paul RichterRobbie does nothing for me, either his music or him as a guy!
Natalie ImbrugliaArchitecture in general is frozen music.
Friedrich Von Schelling'I feel close to the rebelliousness and vigour of the youth here. Perhaps time will separate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music.'
Eric CantonaJazz is for everybody. The bottom line is that we believe jazz is really good music and deserves to be presented in the right way
James MorrisonSo long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.
Aaron CoplandJohn [Peel] was simply one of my favourite men in the whole world - as a music fan and presenter he was simply an inspiration.
Jo WhileyEveryone reaches their point in time where either they die or they get sick of doing drugs. It started getting debilitating. I enjoy my music a lot better than my drugs.
Al JourgensenThe movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
Jack BlackI considered the years in Hollywood nothing but an interim. What I always wanted was to be was a musical comedy star.
Arlene DahlCountry 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 JonesGay nightclubs offer better dance music than straight clubs, in my experience!
Jack DavenportAny good music must be an innovation.
Les BaxterMusic 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 BowieI can't think of a music genre that I don't listen to, apart from easy listening, actually. And indie.
Jade JaggerI could have say a degree in music and come on the show, and Simon could still say 'You stink'. [On the judging style of Simon Cowell on Idol]
Clay AikenDo not rely on unplanned music; it comes out as though it were planned, but planned by someone you cross the street to avoid.
Robert AshleyRock and Roll is not just a series of sounds of music refrains. Rock and Roll, like Love and Beauty, is an entity. It's around us everywhere. It feels good.
John A MarshallWhen music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed its point.
Maria CallasIt was because of him [John Peel] I got to hear some of the most obscure but influential music I ever heard.
James Dean BradfieldMusic is something I'm serious about - I've really worked hard on my album.
Paris HiltonBallroom is two people dancing together to music, touching in perfect harmony
Anton Du BekeHe orchestrated the folk music of cricket [W G Grace]
Neville CardusTake a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWriting has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself
Truman CapoteHe that lives in hope dances without music.
George HerbertIf income was directly proportional to technical proficiency and education, classical and jazz musicians would be some of the most affluent people in the world.
Robert Coleman
Pick another category
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