Quotes About Music

I don't get to listen to music for fun very often; a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles.

I think the work is always personal. This album differs. It seems to be a lot more positive. It seems to have a certain amount of optimism about it.

When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.

I also met, early on Ella Fitzgerald. Her songbooks are some of the most amazing bodies of work.

I've been thankful to work with some wonderful people and sort of combine forces with some folks that... like in recent years, working with Alan Ferber or his brother Mark who's a wonderful drummer.

Now we also need people who just love to listen to the music. And we need people that want to work to facilitate it. That want to do work, have somebody like Bret Primack, the jazz video guy.

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.

My ambition was to be a record producer, and I had started doing that in the late '60s with my work with the MC5 and my friend Livingston Taylor.

Even before I became a recording artist, I did other things in music. I was a teacher, I did studio work, and I was an arranger and a producer.

I always wanted to work with Michael Jackson. His music will live forever and with technology nowadays... maybe I could.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

I get to work with people I love who challenge and inspire me. And I get to sing songs that do that same thing!

["A Deal with God"] was the first single off Hounds of Love. I'd put a lot of work into putting that album together and I wanted it to have every chance.

The electric guitar meant that you could have a band with a drummer and a couple of guitars. And that put a lot of horn players out of work.

I've never wanted to name an album from a song title if I could avoid it because I like it to be a body of work.

I actually never knew Peter Green but I do respect his early work very much.

My dad had even hired an accompanist to play for me on a piano. But he had never pushed me to music because I don't think he wanted me to be hurt as much as he was if it didn't work.

I spent two years living in London - I'd have stayed for ever if I could have got a work visa. It was there I started collecting vinyl and fell in love with the sounds of the 1970s.

I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.

I adore the work of Stephen Sondheim. I like musicales in general. They make surprisingly great running tapes.