Driving Quote by Eric Clapton

“That's the secret to performance: conviction. The right note played tentatively still misses its mark; but play boldly and no one will question you.”

— Rachel Hartman

Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.

— Ornette Coleman

Fats - very funny man, but every note that he played was like a pearl.

— Cecil Taylor

For Rostropovich, every single note that he played had a special kind of human meaning behind it. And this was something that he expressed…

— David Finckel

Oh, I think country has changed tremendously. I think country has totally changed. Country music when I was a kid was Hank Williams. If…

— John Mellencamp

I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n' roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that…

— Wolfman Jack

Rock n' roll was a bad and evil thing. l remember once I was singing a Barry Manilow song, "Mandy," In the back seat…

— Axl Rose

It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day,…

— George Carlin

Rock n roll is about drugs.

— Marilyn Manson

I turned to music originally because of my past and needing a release or an outlet to get out anger or frustration or hurt.

— Christina Aguilera

I went through a string of A&R men who all thought I should be doing something different. One thought I should be a dance…

— Alison Moyet

...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I…

— Paul Banks