Quotes About Music

I got a chance to listen to and watch Thelonious Monk and his quartet play two shows a night, for six weeks. It was a great education. There was my university, man.

Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed.

I listen to my records and I think, 'Wow, these are really great appetizers. I haven't even considered what I'm going to order for the full entree meal yet.'

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

I declare that The Beatles are mutants.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.

The Dolls were an attitude. If nothing else they were a great attitude.

I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.

I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.

Boy bands should be exploded from a great height. They're just pretty people singing music written by others.

I was lucky enough as a kid to spend most of my weekends at the Fillmore East. On a great night, that was like a Holy Roller evangelical church.

And it was a very, very fruitful and great relationship between the Stones and The Beatles. It was very, very friendly.

I'm healthy, have a loving and adorable family, great hunting dogs, a gravity defying musical career and most importantly, fuzzy-headed idiots hate me.

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter.

I'm pretty satisfied with how 'Postcard' turned out. I think everybody did a great job.

Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best

Have we not all about us forms of a musical expression which we can take and purify and raise to the level of great art?.

Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.

And I think that's a singer's job. You know, to really interpret a lyric. There's an art to it, and I think some people are really great at it, like Tammy Wynette and George Jones and Tony Bennett.