Quotes About Music

I was considered as a jazz man rather than as a blues player. There were no blues players-you played one sort of jazz of another sort of jazz.

When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

It has been said with some meaning that if men would but rest in silence, they might always hear the music of the spheres.

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.

I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.

Sing us a song you're the piano man. Sing us a song tonight. Cause we're all in the mood for a melody, And you've got us feeling all right.

I think metal draws dumb people. It's not exactly a thinking man's genre.

A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music.

Some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that.

It wouldn't be a Carrie Underwood album without a revenge song on it. People really like when I do that. I don't mean to. I don't hate men that much. But it turns out so well!

"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.

Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man.

A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.

Man, I feel like hip-hop is - first of all, not even only with just GOOD Music, I gotta say - I think hip-hop is still alive in a strong way, man. I feel really enthused about hip-hop.

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.

You know how a person is made for something? Eminem is made for hip-hop. The best rapper is a white man.

My life has been a poor attempt to imitate the man, I'm just a living legacy to the leader of the band.

the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest.

I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.

Once at the White House I was asked to conduct the Drum and Bugle Corp. The man just handed me the baton and I finished the song. It was great. I got to keep the baton.

When I go on the road now, which is less than before, but still more than I'd like to, I think of myself primarily as a singer. Not a songwriter, not a celebrity, just a man who likes to sing.

Left Eye, man...who else has more personality than Left Eye?

I tried to pay some small tribute to A Man and a Woman (1966) with the recurring musical theme.