Quotes About Music

I'm not sorry it stopped. [on Lady Gaga's "Poker Face"]

I'd prefer silence and random jokes about the passing billboards and scenery, but I know how he likes music. I just hope he doesn't start singing.

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die.

Ah, that's just sean nós singing and dancing. Something to do around the pub of an evening.

Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.

To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note, " he said, "but the simplest way to break glass is simply to drop it on the floor.

You cats mind if I make it a trio?' he asked me, and it was not a huge surprise that a dude of his appearance was speaking in Jazz Voice.

Sherry Carroll is a real life Penny Lane and one wonders if she hasn't got Cameron Crowe or Lester Bangs hidden somewhere in her suburban basement.

I don't do 'black music, ' I don't do 'white music'...I make fight music, for high school kids.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

I once told him that the best way to break up a fight is to step between the two people and start singing ancient folk songs. But I'd never heard of anyone actually doing such a thing.

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic.

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

You're starting to sound like one of those songs that DJ's play when they wanna clear out the dancefloor.

Any band that doesn't have a sense of humor has a little bit of a problem.

Along with a sense of humor, my songs have to be sincere, and they have to be sung from a position of inner conviction.

Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.

If Elvis Presley had been a bowhunter, he'd probably be alive today.

Jerry [Garcia] got high and Jerry's dead. I went hunting and I'm still Ted.

When singing, you need performing skills and a bit of imagination. You have to treasure the emotions, and to not deviate from the colour of the song while pouring your heart into it.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Pop music can get inside us and enter our memory bubbles. It provides those true Proustian moments, unlocking sensations, unlocking our imaginations. Music inspired me as a filmmaker.