Quotes About Music

My first concert makes me sound like a real old man. My very first concert was Jackie Wilson.

Opera: I like it, except for all those howling sopranos and caterwauling tenors. (Why can't tenors sing like men?)

I'm an old man now. I can't believe it. I'm listening to all sorts because I'm producing people.

Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.

Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

I kind of grew up with hip hop and of course being from Detroit I'm a Motown man. Music is in our blood. When you're from Detroit, music is in your DNA.

I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.

I always wanted to sound like a man, like Jeff Buckley or Tom Waits.

"Evil men have no songs." How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?

We treat the lyrics like the woman any man wants to impress the most. We give the lyrics all the attention we can. I'm not sure other formats are remembering that the lyrics are what it's all about.

The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.

"Open Arms" has a lot of unison singing in it. And it works: Grown men will come to our gigs and cry during that one.

I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic.

I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.

How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

I feel the most alive when I'm singing. I also get to be the mail man for some of the most beautiful lyrics ever written.

I love Wilco's "I'm the Man Who Loves You." Nels Cline has that weird guitar slide at the beginning and the song is whispered actually.

One should leave the piano when Oscar comes in. This man is dangerous.

A gentleman is a man who can play the banjo, but doesn't.

Grunge, man, that was incredible. It was dangerous. It was not verse/chorus. Songs could be short, long, a lark, majestic. You were constantly being surprised.

The man who has many answers is often found in the theaters of information where he offers, graciously, his deep findings. While the man who has only questions, to comfort himself, makes music.

I love artists who have spirituality. Jonathan Coulton is the man, I love his melodies and lyrics. Chap-hop is the bomb!

Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic.