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Music Quotes
"All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations."
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"Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist."
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"But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th."
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"I don't think I have ever met a single person who isn't moved by music of some kind."
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"Obviously I got known for some other songs early on, and some of those were rock'n'roll songs. Some of them were melodic pop songs. And I've done lots of different things, as you know, but every so often I get drawn back."
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"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
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"I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians."
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"Dance with a girl three times, and if you like the light of her eye and the tone of voice with which she, breathless, answers your little questions about horseflesh and music about affairs masculine and feminine, then take the leap in the dark."
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"Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself."
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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
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"That's what I miss out of all this synthesized music - it starts to lose dynamics."
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"I don't know if it's a sign of all the chaos that is happening out there or not, but I've lately craved the structure and order of classical music, the balance and symmetry."
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"I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does."
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"The Monkees was a straight sitcom, we used the same plots that were on the other situation comedies at the time. So the music wasn't threatening, we weren't threatening."
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"The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls."
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"The music comes first. When Geoff has made something the inspiration comes automatically. His music is very expressive. But still is is a very difficult process: I have to add something to his music, not push it away. It has to be equal, and I find that very difficult."
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"I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music."
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"As interesting as that music can occasionally be, I don't think it really replaces the other."
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"How does my music connect to an audience? That is just a complete mystery to me."
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"This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before."
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"Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music."
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"It's rather like attending a university seminar where you are talking to a few gifted specialists who deliver a paper to an audience of their peers. That's one way of making music."
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"I am the daughter of the Chairman of the Board and thus, was raised with great music."
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"I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here."
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"Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?"
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"Country music has changed tremendously, so what now is considered country was not considered country at that time. We were doing stuff that probably could have been called country music today, but would certainly have not have fit in at that time."
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