Music Quotes

• People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Music
  • Magic
  • Perfectionists

• Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?

  

  Margaret Mitchell
  • Interested
  • Europe
  • Blond

• I really feel like I found myself, and when I found myself, I found the music along with it.

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • Music

• The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Business
  • Profit
  • TV

• There's a pattern when tours start - a pattern of infighting, of making up, of breaking up, of addiction. There's a pattern of going to jail. There's a pattern of passion for music.

  

  Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
  • Passion
  • Addiction
  • Jail

• I've got to hear the rhythm of the sentences; I want the music of the prose. I want to see ordinary things transformed not by the circumstances in which I see them but by the language with which they're described. That's what I love when I read.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Music

• All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.

  

  Brody Dalle
  • Music
  • Road
  • Records

• A fine poem combines the elements of meaning, music, and a form like a living frame that holds it together.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Music
  • Elements
  • Poem

• My solo music - I get up onstage, I improvise and it's my improvisation. When I get up onstage with Fred Frith and Mike Patton, then we're improvising together. Then it's not my music; it's our music.

  

  John Zorn
  • Up
  • Music
  • Together

• When I wanted to audition for a dinner-theater junior troupe in my hometown, I needed to have a piece of musical theater music to sing. I wasn't sure what I wanted to use. My mom and dad suggested that I sing 'Edelweiss' because I knew it from the music box.

  

  Audra McDonald
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I would never have become music director of the Chicago Symphony, which would have been an extremely sad loss.

  

  Georg Solti
  • Music
  • Sad
  • Chicago

• Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

  

  Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Life
  • Music
  • Magic

• I definitely want to act, but I also want to score movies, and I have this idea to fuse classical music with other styles that would give it a different perception.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Different
  • Idea
  • Movies

• It seems like music gets put in this hub where you have to rap about this, and the minute you do something else, it's like you changing. Nah, I'm being creative.

  

  Justin Scott
  • Music
  • Rap

• I don't think we'll ever get too theatrical on stage. I can't see us using exotic props or fancy stages. Of course, we want to put on the best show possible, but we want the music to be the star of the show, not the stage set.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Star
  • Stage
  • Fancy

• Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.

  

  Wyclef Jean Fugees
  • God
  • Believe
  • Forever

• I don't want to be subsumed into popular culture and played on the radio next to some garbage music.

  

  James Murphy
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Popular

• I'm really compulsive with music. I listen too much, and I can't listen to one thing. I love iTunes Genius.

  

  Louise Harman
  • Music

• [Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Words
  • Rock
  • Couple

• I love the company of actors, but the crazier it gets, the more I've come to realise how valuable my time is with my friends who work on the land or are builders or, you know, make music. Work in offices. Run shops.

  

  Andrea Riseborough
  • Time
  • Work
  • Friends

• The female rock-'n'-roll-country-pop songwriter is back, and her name is Taylor Swift. And it's women like her who are going to save the music business.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Business
  • Rock N Roll
  • Songwriter

• I just play Cure music, whatever that is.

  

  Robert Smith The Cure
  • Music

• I think music can change your life.

  

  Andris Nelsons
  • Life
  • Music

• I started playing classical music, and I still do. I think music ultimately is kind of on a theoretical level, is about collecting and learning as much vocabulary as possible. It's kind of like writing. It's kind of like writing because the more you read, the more you hear people describe things. The more you soak in, as far as vocabulary, the more access you have in order to express yourself accurately and vividly.

  

  Eldar Djangirov
  • Writing
  • Learning
  • Vocabulary

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