Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

Maya Angelou

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Maya Angelou

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

The BPI didn't want to sue its customers, but it will do to stop them stealing music.

Billy Bragg

Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,

Johnny Rivers

Performing live, that's the ultimate thing. That's where it starts and that's where it ends. It's all about playing music.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Kaskade

People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

After Wild Child, I had pretty much had it with the music business.

The music they are making is wonderful. There is so much talent there.

The music, the dress, the color, the stage settings ? there's nothing in the world like it. The whole of Massachusetts should rush here, honestly.

Christian Scott

The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Marjane Satrapi

The music that I hate the most is R&B.

Michael Schenker

The music is a personal expression, like art.

Donald Harrison

The musicians will come back. It's going to take a long time, but New Orleans can actually be a better place because of this.

The music he made in the '80s was being passed around the world like a secret handshake.

Maxwell

Soul music is soul music. It can be wrapped up in a neo soul package; it can be called hip-hop soul. But soul is soul, and it's been around; it will never go away.

Acting-wise, I did a web series. I play a music agent in a series called 'Keeping Up with the Downs.'

David Bennett

They're not telling Music Row how to record the songs. But I think more than ever before they're dictating the look and the feel of the genre.

Chris Cornell

There's a lot of music that I don't like.

J. Tillman

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

They get to pick their own music and costumes. And if they don't want to, we'll pick for them. Trust me, they don't want that.

Chris Robinson

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

It really is a vaudeville show. That is the music I am into.

John Otto

It's all about theme and development anyway. That's what music is about.

I told them to turn the music up.

Tinashe

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

Damian Marley

There must be pain before healing. So in that way, the music is revolutionary, because it tells the truth.

John Elkington

This is a tremendous area. Is there a musical heritage?

S. J. Perelman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.