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"I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music."

"I come from the performance world, but the idea of a worship song is different. It's useful music."

John Tesh, American Musician

Music, Idea, Performance, Song

45

"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."

"Math and music are intimately related. Not necessarily on a conscious level, but sure."

Stephen Sondheim, American Composer

45

"When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together."

"When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. However, on occasion, I would write something for my own pleasure or I would write notes and introductory remarks in the songbooks I put together."

Tom Glazer, American Musician

Music, Literary, Pleasure, Sense

45

"The best way to express rhythm is music."

"The best way to express rhythm is music."

John Hartford, American Musician

45

"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."

"I mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1."

Neil Innes, British Writer

45

"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."

"It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad."

David Geffen, American Businessman

45

"When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s."

"When it comes to music, we live in a very different world than everyone did in the 1960s and 1970s."

Vanessa Carlton, American Musician

45

"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."

"Out of doing all that experimentation with sound I decided I wanted to do it with live musicians. To take repetition, take music fragments and make it live. Musicians would be able to play it and create this kind of abstract fabric of sound."

Terry Riley, American Composer

Music, Musicians, Play, Repetition

45

"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."

"One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there."

Stephen Sondheim, American Composer

Music, Writer, Writing

45

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

"The lyrics are constructed as empirically as the music. I don't set out to say anything very important."

Brian Eno, British Musician

45

"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences."

"I'm from the Bob Wills and the Little Richard school of music. Bob Wills did what the hell he thought, Little Richard did what he thought, and those were my big influences."

Buck Owens, American Musician

Music, Thought, Hell, School

45

"Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move."

"Yeah, one of the main ways is for songs that make me want to move."

Joe Cocker, English Musician

Music, Songs, Want

45

"Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind."

"Music can affect for good or ill the body as well as the mind."

Tomas Luis de Victoria, Spanish Composer

Music, Body, Mind

45

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

"Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish."

William Blake, English Poet

Music, Poetry, Nations, Painting

45

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger."

"I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Music, Battle, Danger, Opinions

45

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."

"However, yes, especially as one gets older, you know, you really hope that your music will become more generally available, even though some of the performances might be riddled with faults."

John Eaton, American Politician

Music, Hope, Faults, Will

45

"I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me."

"I didn't just want to be Frank's daughter who sang Boots. I take my music very seriously and studied very hard. It's not a joke to me."

Nancy Sinatra, American Musician

Music, Daughter, Want

45

"I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome."

"I went to the Conservatory of Music in school in Rome."

Cecilia Bartoli, Italian Musician

Music, Rome, School

45

"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy."

"In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy."

John Frusciante, American Musician

Music, People, Energy

45

"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."

"If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But the lyrics are another story."

Kate Smith, American Musician

Music, Nothing, Wrong

45

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception."

"I've been writing Indian music for a while. Indian music is about Mother Earth, and mine is no exception."

Jimmy Carl Black, American Musician

Music, Mother, Earth, Writing

45

"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."

"I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music."

James Marsters, American Actor

45

"I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not."

"I wondered how people would take me being a country music singer. I thought about deviating from that and singing other things. But... it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not."

Carrie Underwood, American Musician

Music, Thought, People, Being

45

"I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music."

"I'm recording an album. It's sort of techno mixed with garbage - you, know, intense in-your-face music."

Christy Romano, American Actress

45

"We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter."

"We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter."

Ringo Starr, English Musician

Music, Love, Laughter, Sense

45

"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."

"Agressive music can only shock you once. Afterwards its impact declines. It's inevitable."

Brian Eno, British Musician

45

"Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music."

"Ironically, for a few million people in the Far East, I did become an English teacher through my music."

Pat Boone, American Musician

Music, People, English

45

"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American Athlete

45

"But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple."

"But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple."

Leo Ornstein, American Composer

Music, Art, End

45

"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

"This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it."

Harrison Birtwistle, British Composer

45

"Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music."

"Yet even then the music has still a quality stern and implacable, deliberate and without passion so much as immolation, pleading, asking, for not love, not life, forbidding it to others, demanding in sonorous tones death as though death were the boon, like all Protestant music."

William Faulkner, American Novelist

Music, Religion, Sacrifice, Emotion

45

"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project."

"I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project."

Bill Mumy, American Actor

Music, Development, Biography, Project

45

"There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people."

"There's another way of making music, by touching the lives and feelings of ordinary people."

Gavin Bryars, English Composer

Music, People, Feelings

45

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out."

"I never had many problems to do my music and to give it to a record company. Rarely do they try to argue with me about my music, probably because it's still too far-out."

Klaus Schulze, German Composer

Music, Company, Problems

45

"They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good."

"They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good."

Chris LeDoux, American Musician

45

"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."

"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."

Henry Flynt, American Artist

45

"Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me."

"Music is my way of getting away from everything. It means a lot to me."

Jesse McCartney, American Musician

45

"Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record."

"Those albums are so important to me because, for the first time, I was making my own music, paying for it, finding strengths in it, and going through the process of finding the right music for the record."

Randy Bachman, Canadian Musician

Music, Time, First, Right

45

"Music is a safe kind of high."

"Music is a safe kind of high."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

45

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

"Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!"

Lauryn Hill, American Musician

Music, Spiritual

45

"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."

"This was during a period when I was producing Brazil '66 records and got infected by Brazilian music."

Herb Alpert, American Musician

45

"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant."

"However, very recently I have come to an understanding that complex music is not necessarily pleasant."

Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese Composer

Music, Understanding

45

"I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs."

"I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs."

Shannon Hoon, American Musician

Music, Songs, Value, Writing

45

"Good rock music always tends to be around."

"Good rock music always tends to be around."

Dave Davies, British Musician

45

"I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto."

"I remember listening to Cube's music when I was like 14 years old, my friends listening to it up in Toronto."

Scott Speedman, English Actor

Music, Friends, Listening, Old

45

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

"Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

Groucho Marx, American Comedian

Music, Justice, Military

45

"Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations."

"Jazz is the music of the body. The breath comes through brass. It is the body's breath, and the strings' wails and moans are echoes of the body's music. It is the body's vibrations which ripple from the fingers. And the mystery of the withheld theme, known to jazz musicians alone, is like the mystery of our secret life. We give to others only peripheral improvisations."

Anais Nin, American Author

Music, Jazz, Body, Expression

45

"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing."

"I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing."

Bela Bartok, Hungarian Composer

45

"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."

"Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert."

Elvis Costello, British Musician

Music, Guitar, Man, Mind

45

"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."

"My audience is the baby-boomers, the bulk of the population. This is also a group that is being ignored by most record companies because they're not the Top 40 hit singles market. They forget these people still listen to music."

Helen Reddy, Australian Actress

Music, People, Baby, Being

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