--- title: "1 Music Coming Quotes By Jerry Leiber" description: "1 Music Coming quotes by Jerry Leiber. Plus more from Jerry Leiber and more Music Coming sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/jerry-leiber-31633_business_i-heard-this-music-coming-out-of-the-rad_3051210.jpg" --- > [I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. No romantic story.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/i-heard-this-music-coming-out-of-the-radio-and-it-was-ain-t-nobody-s/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bcf/jerry-leiber-31633_business_i-heard-this-music-coming-out-of-the-rad_3051210.jpg) ## More by Jerry Leiber > [Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of kerosene and ten-pound bags of coal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/red-hot-songs-were-born-on-the-black-streets-of-baltimore-where-i/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Elvis was incredibly cooperative. He would try anything. He wasn't a diva, no prima donna. When it came to work, he was a workhorse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/elvis-was-incredibly-cooperative-he-would-try-anything-he-wasn-t-a/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Elvis Presley, you can't define him in a couple of sentences, but he was a country boy and he was very respectful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/elvis-presley-you-can-t-define-him-in-a-couple-of-sentences-but-he/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [The Jewish background is not that far from the black groove. Blacks are downtrodden, Jews are downtrodden, therefore they have something in common in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/the-jewish-background-is-not-that-far-from-the-black-groove-blacks/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Our songs did not transcend being R&B hits. They were R&B hits that white kids were attracted to. And if people bought it, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/our-songs-did-not-transcend-being-r-b-hits-they-were-r-b-hits-that/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Irving Berlin was the greatest songwriter of all time. I was in awe of him. But his music wasn't my music. My music was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/irving-berlin-was-the-greatest-songwriter-of-all-time-i-was-in-awe-of/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [And there's always one special element. In 'There Goes My Baby,' it's the out-of-tune timpani. 'Stand by Me,' it's the bass pattern. Of course,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/and-there-s-always-one-special-element-in-there-goes-my-baby-it-s-the/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Listen to any cantor, any good hazan, sing and you can hear a little bit of Ray Charles going on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/listen-to-any-cantor-any-good-hazan-sing-and-you-can-hear-a-little/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [I felt black. I was as far as I was concerned. And I wanted to be black for lots of reasons. They were better…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/i-felt-black-i-was-as-far-as-i-was-concerned-and-i-wanted-to-be-black/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [I was brought up in black neighborhoods in South Baltimore. And we really felt like we were very black. We acted black and we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/i-was-brought-up-in-black-neighborhoods-in-south-baltimore-and-we/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [It's self-effacing, it's hard-luck, the shtetl stories. All those Coasters things are an amalgam of Yiddish and black humor.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/it-s-self-effacing-it-s-hard-luck-the-shtetl-stories-all-those/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [The first memory I have was my sisters dancing to the radio when they played records by Benny Goodman and Harry James and of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/the-first-memory-i-have-was-my-sisters-dancing-to-the-radio-when-they/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [The early influences, in many ways, were in Baltimore. I was passing open windows where there might be a radio playing something funky. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/the-early-influences-in-many-ways-were-in-baltimore-i-was-passing/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > ['Hound Dog' took like twelve minutes. That's not a complicated piece of work. But the rhyme scheme was difficult. Also the metric structure of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/hound-dog-took-like-twelve-minutes-that-s-not-a-complicated-piece-of/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) > [Teenagers especially are very, very conscious about what is hip and what is lame and what is square and what is out and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-leiber/teenagers-especially-are-very-very-conscious-about-what-is-hip-and/) [Jerry Leiber](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-leiber/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/music-coming/jerry-leiber/#itemlist", "name": "1 Music Coming Quotes By Jerry Leiber", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I heard this music coming out of the radio and it was 'Ain't Nobody's Business.' It got me. I thought, 'I can do this.' I decided just like that. 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