Quotes About Music

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

You stand for nothing. You respect nobody. The music you dance to is devoid of beauty, its lyrics empty of humor or cleverness.

I played in a death-metal band. People either loved us or hated us. Or they thought we were OK.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Whitney Houston's cover of "I Will Always Love You" was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one.

Jazz can be so serious, no sense of humor.

Last year we drove across the country...We had one cassette tape to listen to on the entire trip... I don't remember what it was.

American rock has a sort of self-pitying whine to it.

The only thing that makes me cry at weddings is the DJ's playlist.

I take music pretty seriously. You see that scar on my wrist? You see that? You know where that's from? I heard the Bee Gees were getting back together again. I couldn't take it, OK!

Goth Juice... The most powerful hairspray known to man. Made from the tears of Robert Smith.

Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.

I think bands, when they're on the road, they keep their sanity by developing an internal sense of humor.

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

FANTASTIC! There is such clarity and so much humor in Stetch's playing! I have always loved that about him.

Have you heard his new song? 'Cause he thinks he's a black man now.

Now, the band that inspired that great saying, "Stop The Music!!"

I have no problem not listening to the Temptations.

I like your opera - I think I will set it to music

Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going.

On the Rolling Stones - You will walk out of the Amphitheatre after watching the Stones perform and suddenly the Chicago stockyards smell clean and good by comparison.

I cringed as the band oozed into the next chord. If notes were cars, I think there was a D major under the wreckage.

My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.