Music Quotes

Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works i...

Buzz Osborne

One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something...

Buzz Osborne

I've liked country music for forever. And Buck Owens is just one of many country guitarists I like. I think Buck's Sixties records are really progressive.

Buzz Osborne

Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.

Bernadette Peters

Music is real; it's something you can touch and feel.

Bijou Phillips

I'm sure there are a few things in my CD collection that might surprise people. I like classical music, the blues, and I'm a big fan of alternative rock.

Brad Paisley

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Brian De Palma

I just felt like I'd rather listen to even the worst metal song more than most current pop music.

Brian Posehn

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Fashion and all that comes after the music.

Birdman

I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.

Birdy

There's nothing like living a long time to create a depth and soulfulness in your music.

Bonnie Raitt

I think we have responsibilities to be active in the things we believe in, regardless of what our job is. At least in my lifetime, there has been a tremendous combining of activism and music, that came up in the era of Pete Seeger and the Weavers and...

Bonnie Raitt

The world I live in is benefiting from things like satellite radio. Jazz and blues fests are everywhere now, and Americana is going strong on college radio. What I'm hearing is an appreciation of real music.

Bonnie Raitt

Superficial pop will always exist - there've always been Fabians - but when people like Dire Straits and Bruce Hornsby start having hits, it suggests that there's a revolution going on in music.

Bonnie Raitt

I don't think there's ever been any music quite like what we came up with.

Bonnie Raitt

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

Bonnie Raitt

I think the drummer should sit back there and play some drums, and never mind about the tunes. Just get up there and wail behind whoever is sitting up there playing the solo. And this is what is lacking, definitely lacking in music today.

Buddy Rich

I called the album 'The Chemo' because it seems like the industry and music overall is dying slowly.

Busta Rhymes

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Barbara Sher