Quotes About Music

I started as a tap dancer in Durban, which is on the coast. That was an important part of growing up, turning on the radio in the morning and hearing Zulu singing or the news in Zulu.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

Buy real records in real shops, or I'll come round your house and scream at your mother.

If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

Funkers are people who dig the funk; Little funkers, Big funkers, Old funkers, Young funkers, Foxy funkers, Mother funkers, Papa funkers.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

My mother also had us take piano lessons, and this had a similar effect. I hated those lessons, but I now play regularly for pleasure and have even tried my hand at composing.

My daughter is in love with Adele. She listens to her every day. To see someone with that much passion and soul move a 9-year-old is amazing and it's magical.

An uncle gave me a side drum and my mother decided I should have lessons.

I was very inspired by my mother. She was a vocal teacher and sang in a band, and my first memories of her were going out with her on the local circuit.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

The people who raised me musically are my mother, who is a classically trained pianist, and my stepfather.

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.

There is nothing in the world of art like the songs mother used to sing.

My mother played piano so we always had music around the house

Since I was three I've been playing the piano. I've been onstage. My mother is an Evangelist and I used to play the piano at her revival meetings.

My mother liked Jim Reeves. I hated his records. He was unbearable.

I gave birth to most of them MC's... So when it comes around to the month of May, Send me your royalty check for Mother's Day.

When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man's daughter would not understand blues.