Quotes About Music

My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

My own Brubeck Institute in California is turning out fantastic young jazz players, and I know great things will happen.

I began to practise day and night, and the more I did, the more I was overwhelmed by the tremendous achievement of that great family of black American musicians I was beginning to know closely.

Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

What is great now is not even close to what Jimmy Hendrix was. We need to reevaluate the standards of what's [labeled] great music.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

I like Chris Martin. I think he's a really great songwriter.

The Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame was a great idea when it started, but I think they ought to close it, I think it's full.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

The Negroes have little invention, but strong powers of imitation, so that they readily acquire mechanic arts. They have a great talent for music, and all their external senses are remarkably acute.

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.

Lizzy Parks. Check this out, this is brilliantShe is a fantastic jazz singer definitely one to watch from now on, she's got a great voice and she's a great songwriter as well

At the end of the day, Fool's Gold is a label that, when I hear something I like, I try to grab it for the label. There's a ton of great music coming out.

Being known for musicals is a great thing.

One of the great things about being in a band is that you meet so many other musicians who will turn you on to stuff you would never have otherwise found out about.

My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

Everything they say about Elvis today is true. He was just one great guy. He wasn't jealous of anyone. I would say Elvis was really someone special when you add it all up.

I'm constantly discovering things. Like Bobby Bland. Right now I suppose I'm into the Eighties, which turned out to be a great musical period.

Paste may be the last great American music magazine left.

Brad Paisley has always been really great to me, and that's no secret.

Simon Cowell and I are great friends and we wind each other up. Rod Stewart and I do the same thing.