Doe Quote by Jonathan Meades

Serious music usually doesn't pay.

— Elvis Costello

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

— Noel Coward

Real music is not for wealth, not for honours or even the joys of the mind... but as a path for realisation and salvation.

— Ali Akbar Khan

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

— Itzhak Perlman

I got my influences from '70s bands - Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, blah blah blah. When I was growing up, we had all these crazy…

— Al Jourgensen

It's kind of a twisted cycle, but I think that there is less money in real music these days.

— Lalah Hathaway

I have never acknowledged the difference between serious music and light music. There is only good music and bad music.

— Kurt Weill

Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.

— Langston Hughes

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

— Les Baxter

I find it ironic that now water is more expensive than music. On the one hand, record companies can't go crying when they've gouged…

— Tom Morello

I think hopefully we've got enough brain cells left to decide if our music is really worth something.

— Will Champion

Music is able to make a person dream. When you dream, you dream of something good, something beautiful, and when you dream, you always…

— Andrea Bocelli