Great Music Quotes

I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music.

Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Gilmartins voice is angelic, but her lyrical subjects are often serious and slightly sad. The conflict of the beauty of her voice and the sadness of her lyrics makes for great music!

My focus is trying to make great music and putting on great shows, and whatever happens beyond that is a bonus to me.

I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.

In ancient times the greatest of the prophets were great musicians.

We all want to play great music all the time, but if that is not possible, you have to hit as many right notes as you can.

There is more real devotional feeling summoned from the temple of the mind by great music than by any sermon ever delivered.

Great music as much about the space in between the notes as it is about the notes themselves.

I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true.

If you just take the time to look, then yeah, you will find some really great music in Holland. Just scratch the surface and look underneath the corporate surface.

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

Jay Ashby is simply a great musician!

We have inherited a great music. This music is a holdover. It comes with us like the skin, the texture of our hair. It's our memory banks.

Paste is a great music lover's resource. I tend to agree with their album reviews and find their interviews a bit more intriguing than those of other music magazines.

I've never really been a traditional country kind of guy. I wanted my music to sound more like the end of the '90s and to have the kind of great music, pop or whatever, that radio will embrace.

I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

So, you know, there are a lot of the biggest records of the year. There's great music in hip-hop and jazz and, you know, and folk music.

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.

Listening to great music and art inspires me and recharges me.

I've been fortunate in my career to have performed in revivals of great musicals and to have originated roles in musicals that have in turn been revived. And I'm not dead!

I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.

I don't care about the charts; I just want to make great music that I enjoy performing on stage and I'm proud of.

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.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

Honestly, I just want to have a good time, listen to great singers and great music, and just use my instincts, as usual.

I didn't want to be precious about things. Of course, the idea is to make great music, but if you have great musicians up there, it gives me some leeway to play around a little bit.

Nobody gives a crap if we're great musicians.

By and large, Americans close their ears to anything not in English. That's stupid because there's some great music around the world that we should be listening to.

I come from a town of great musicians: Washington, D.C. It's no joke, that history.

There was so much great music around in the 60s, stuff like The Small Faces, but I also love The Jam.

I love great music and if it doesn't move me I don't listen to it.

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.

Our life a harp is, with unnumbered strings, And tones and symphonies; but our poor skill Some shallow notes from its great music brings.

A lot of kids are moving to Baltimore, because we have a great music scene and we've got edge. Come on down, we've got scary edge. But great edge - it's still a city you can be a bohemian in.

Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It's like a bit of the perfect storm.

Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals.

Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy.

There's room for everyone. There's room for pop country, for 'rock & roll' country, for stone-cold country, and everything in-between. Great music is great music.

From the moment I first heard Steve Laury play, I knew he was dangerous . . . He is an extremely gifted musician who makes great music! We go back 25 years and Steve will always be my dear friend.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

I feel it's my responsibility to turn people on to great music.

The first time I ever went to Chicago was with Zappa and I had a fantastic experiences with him and every other band I've played with. It's a great music town.

I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.

A CD of great music and drums that punch with power and energy.