Quotes About Music

To nie choroba czy ?mier? wprowadzaj? nas do raju. To muzyka.

number he was doing around the nightclubs called

Ya got trouble, folks,Right here in River City.Trouble with a capital "T"And that rhymes with "P"And that stands for Pool!

Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.

It's interesting to do other people's music - that's how I learned to play, by learning other people's songs. It's nice to delve into how other people got to where they are.

Cantar, dizem, é um afastamento da morte. A voz suspende o passo da morte e, em volta, tudo se torna pegada da vida.

On one occasion, someone asked a famous American musician, Ben Harper, this question: "We've heard you now have a new drummer in your band. Tell me something: is he black?" And Harper replied: "I don't know, I've never asked him.

Rock'n'roll is a teenage sport, meant to be played by teenagers of all ages--they could be 15, 25 or 35. It all boils down to whether they've got the love in their hearts, that beautiful teenage spirit... -Calvin Johnson

Just as not all popular albums are wonderful, not all wonderful albums are popular.

MacKaye never told anyone to get off the stage. Sometimes this encouraged a rapid and irreversible descent into chaos, but usually it just meant a steady stream of stage divers and kids who just wanted a few seconds of attention while they did some silly dance for their buddies. Anarchy, it seemed, could work.

Boon and Watt had the bad—or perhaps good—fortune to come of age during one of rock's most abject periods. "That Seventies stuff, the Journey, Boston, Foreigner stuff, it was lame," Watt says. "If it weren't for those type of bands we never would have had the nerve to be a band. But I guess you need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming—if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage.

With their less-than-rudimentary musicianship, Beat Happening might have been making a conceptual point, but it was also the best they could manage. The way the music harked back to sounds from throughout the rock & roll timeline said much more about the inherent characteristics of rock music than it did about the breadth of the band's record collection

Melody meant almost nothing. Aggression, rhythm, and texture were all.

Melody meant almost nothing. Aggression, rhythm, and texture were all. The key was noise.

believe in music in that way—if you want something to happen, you write a song about it.

the old idea that a rock band can be a vital, inspiring part of a community of people looking to improve society.

born Rastafari," but had "assumed the posture" in the late seventies or early eighties after being exposed to reggae music.

Considering the amount of information we're bombarded by, it's amazing if a song can transcend time.

Roxy Music became, as Bryan Ferry would observe in 1975, 'above all … a state of mind'.

Before beginning, mark the solemn words of 'Nigel Norris' – a fictitious freelance writer for Rolling Stone, setting out his stall in Howard Schuman's television drama of 1976, Rock Follies, episode three, 'The Road': Norris: 'I think one should apply the same critical standards to rock music as to any other art form.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

sound as the parachute

There's a harmony flowing through everything: art, music, shape. Sometimes you can just feel the way things are and ought to be.