Chicago Quote by Tom Waits

Was there ever a name more full of purpose than Chicago's? ... spoken as Chicagoans themselves speak it, with a bit of a spit…

— Jan Morris

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

— Anonymous

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

— Art Blakey

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

— Dave Grohl

Words are music, really.

— Tom Waits

Chicago, I feel, is a microcosm for the segregated, violent environment that is America. I try to not only speak about these things in…

— Vic Mensa

Chicago is my home. And the way Chicago sounds will always be a part of who I am.

— Kurt Elling

Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

— Tom Waits

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the…

— Paul Scheer

Here's the thing with lyrics: Words are just another musical instrument.

— Max Tundra

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of…

— Anonymous

We didn't know music had all these names. We made up SupaFunkRock on a plane when a flight attendant asked us what we play.

— Trombone Shorty