Quotes About Music

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.

Unless the clients want, I don't like to have dancers for my shows. I prefer a rock show look and like performing with a live band.

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off.

My advice is if you have to do music, then do it! There's no choice in your heart and your soul - unless you have that kind of great need, desire and determination, it's pretty tough out there!

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.

I learned to trust women's ears when it comes to hearing music a lot more than other men.

I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.

The women went berserk, to the accompaniment of 'When a Man Loves a Woman.' It was all bass and drums; the musical equivalent, Anna decided, of cheap aftershave.

I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an instrument and play. And I think we're getting a lot closer to that.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

The future of rock belongs to women.

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.

People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women.

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

A new study found that women think men holding a guitar are more attractive, even if they are not playing it. In a related story, guys with an accordion will die alone.

Women are strong now. Women are dominating the charts, and women are doing it for themselves. We're kicking butt and taking no prisoners.

Being a female hard rocker and guitar player, I felt the need to put out a memoir. Almost like a rock 'n' roll women manual for women.

There are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life. These are wine, women and song.