Music Quotes

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

Gregory Maguire

My tastes in music tend to favor anything my kids don't like, out of natural antipathy amplified by a sort of malicious glee.

Gregory Maguire

Elvis' early music has drama because as he sang he was escaping limits.

Greil Marcus

Records that were the sound of somebody - more often than not, a she - speaking with a voice that had never been heard before. Somebody who'd never had the nerve to speak up before. I felt: 'I wanna meet these people.' Which is unusual for me: I don'...

Greil Marcus

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Groucho Marx

I'm not a fan of anybody music who I feel like a sucka. I don't listen to you. They play you in the club, you can have the #1 jam, but if I know your character, how can I listen to your music?

Gucci Mane

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Gustav Mahler

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Gustav Mahler

The further the music develops, the more complex the apparatus used by the composer to express his thoughts becomes.

Gustav Mahler

I have always been far more interested in sound than technique, and how sounds work together, how they can be layered. I think electronic music, in its infancy anyway, allowed us to create music in a way that hadn't really been possible before. It cr...

Gary Numan

In the mid-1980s to the early 1990s I was writing songs not because I particularly liked what I was doing, but because I was desperately trying to get back into the charts. I really didn't enjoy it. I didn't like the music I was making, I wasn't prou...

Gary Numan

When you decide to do this kind of music then you just accept the facts.

Gary Numan

I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.

Gary Numan

I would never take part in one of those Eighties nostalgia tours, although I've been asked many times, because it's like admitting you have nothing new to offer. As long as I can keep making music I'm happy with, and people want to come to my gigs to...

Gary Numan

One can't deny what has happened to us in the past. The secret is to enjoy and be proud of the music we've created and the people with whom we have been linked. It's all a long chain of involvement in the world, and we are proud to be yet another lin...

Graham Nash

If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.

Graham Nash

I worked very hard on me and David's record and I'm extremely proud of the record, as most people are who were involved with it. And, it's been wonderfully received by people who like our kind of music, they think it's something special, and so do I.

Graham Nash

I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and ...

Gary Oldman

I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.

Gary Oldman

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick.

Guy Oseary

I write to music, and Nina Simone is always on my playlist to write to. I mean, she's inspiring. She's truthful and real and raw.

Gina Prince-Bythewood