Here are some words of wisdom from the greats of the music world. From classical composers to modern band leaders and front men, here are some of our favourite sayings:
Famous quotes by musicians (American)
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
Paralysis by analysis - the downfall of so many artists.
Quincy Jones
Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.
Bon Jovi
Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
B.B. King
Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible. A refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together.
Bill Evans
Quotes by famous musicians (UK)
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?
The Beatles
A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.
Mick Jagger
Quotes from musicians (Classical)
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.
Mahler
Every man must have the right to fearlessly think independently and express his opinion about what he knows. What he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.
Rostropovitch
I discovered that the most interesting music of all was made by simply lining the loops in unison, and letting them slowly shift out of phase with other.
Steve Reich
Quotes by musicians (Living)
You want to sell 5,000 limited-edition red vinyl seven-inches, that's fine. Make music for a closet full of people in Bradford somewhere.
Noel Gallagher
The association field is very large in music, meaning that somebody can make some special sound, put them on tape and broadcast them to 50 people or 100 or 1,000 and each one of those people has a different impression of the sounds they have heard. It's not like the cinema where nearly everybody sees the same thing. I think the optical is much more fixed but when you have music you have so many different sorts of music in the brains of the people.
Kraftwerk
Musician quotes (Dead)
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
I was looking for something a lot heavier, yet melodic at the same time. Something different from heavy metal, a different attitude.
Kurt Cobain
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Bob Marley
Composers Quotes
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
Beethoven
To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Mozart
I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.
Stravinsky
It's not just a question of conquering a summit previously unknown, but of tracing, step by step, a new pathway to it.
Mahler
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