Quotes About Music

Most managers in the rock n' roll world... don't care so much about who's in the band as long as it's making money.

There were a lot of great things you could go and hear for very little money at the time [ '80s]. Mike Stern is still playing at the 55 Bar on Mondays or Wednesdays.

I made my new album 'Colour Me Free!' in a week with my own money.

The only film I ever made for money was something called Music From Another Room, which I really didn't like.

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

I grew up wanting a guitar, my family was very poor. When I was fourteen my mother bought me a Gibson ES 125 thin body. That was a bunch of money in those days - $125.00.

A development deal is where they're giving you recording time and money to record, but not promising that they'll put an album out.

Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

I think that people like getting their money's worth, so it's cool to have a load of bands in a similar genre.

The major labels, they roll with whatever is making money. I don't know if R&B turned into making banjo music and it sounded like blue grass, they'll buy it if it's selling.

Berry Gordy believed in owning the artist for life and controlling everything: the money, the station wagons, everything.

The first album I bought with my own money was 'A Hard Day's Night.'

Music is composed on computers and other electronic equipment producers don't want to spend money on orchestra.

'Swallow My Gift' is all about music being its own reward. I don't do it to become more famous I don't do it to make money. I don't do it from an ego-driven point of view.

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

I've always listened to a lot of rap. It's all, 'Look at this car that cost me so much money, look at this Champagne.' It's super fun.

Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters.

Every morning is good news, every child that is born is good news, every just man is good news, every singer is good news, because every singer is one less soldier.

I usually record all through the night, but I'm known for waking up early in the morning. Even if I had recorded till 3 or 4 in the morning I might wake up at 9 or 10. I never sleep till 1 o clock.

Warm evenings, pale mornings, bottle of blues

You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.

I wake up in the morning and I say 'Ahh! Today's the day for a song! I'm going to write a song today!' And I do. I write a song.

I certainly don't sit around in the morning making pancakes listening to Whitehouse or anything.

I woke up this morning, Smiled at the rising sun, Three little birds, Sat on my doorstep, Singing sweet songs