Musical Quotes · Page 4

A lot of people told me that I'm committing musical suicide with my sound.

— Kid Rock

Enclosure, upon its completion, was the record which represented the achievement of all the musical goals I had been aiming at for…

— John Frusciante

I can't express how wonderful it is to get feedback when you've been sort of in a bubble working on something and…

— Susanna Hoffs

I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque…

— Elie Wiesel

Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the…

— Glenn Gould

To Toronto City Council: The Sam The Record Man store and sign were important fixtures in Toronto's musical landscape as well as…

— Geddy Lee

If you go to any fight, whether MMA or boxing, there's a whole musical soundscape to these events. There's pre-event pump up/psych-up…

— Shawn Anthony Levy

It was a huge deal, a huge musical discovery that became life lessons learned. You can't return from having an experience like…

— Ben Harper

His lessons were chock-full of analogies for a variety of musical situations. Those little things were my favorites. 'No . . .…

— Manny Laureano

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

— Anonymous

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

— John Frusciante

I'm not a person who writes really abstract things with oblique references. I look at abstraction like I look at condiments. Give…

— Wynton Marsalis

I would love to do a big-budget movie musical - I feel like there is one big musical movie a year. And…

— Autumn Reeser

A musical audience is at best uninspiring, at worst definitely drab. ... Respectability hangs like a pall over the orchestra and the…

— Marya Mannes

With few exceptions, every major pop singer in the US during her generation has been touched in some way by her genius.…

— Frank Sinatra

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound…

— Elfriede Jelinek

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do…

— Janina Gavankar

I've learned a lot from being a chameleon, sort of adopting the musical personalities of who I was playing with.

— Jeremy Denk

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

— Thomas Beecham

Any film that you make, it's a very high end game of musical chairs ... but that's just the nature of filmmaking.…

— Eran Creevy

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and…

— George Shearing

I came from the Philippines and Filipinos are incredibly musical. I mean the best cover bands in the world come from Manila!

— June Millington

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

— Billy Sherwood

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't…

— Kiki Dee

I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.

— Gareth Gates