Music Quotes

DJs and people in the street know what they like.

Roy Ayers

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Ritchie Blackmore

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

Ritchie Blackmore

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.

Ritchie Blackmore

I tend to spiral out of control if I'm not working. I get panicked and don't know what to do with myself.

Rose Byrne

It's almost as if people think that in Latin America we're not hip to what's happening here.

Ruben Blades

We had something to say. Whenever we played, people didn't dance, they listened.

Ruben Blades

We are similar to a museum. My function is to present old masterpieces in modern frames.

Rudolf Bing

The world of TV debates is antiquated. What looked smart and modern in 1960, with Kennedy versus Nixon, looks quaint and over-rehearsed between Obama and Romney. We need a new format; even if we have the same moderators and candidates, there needs to...

Ruzwana Bashir

It’s not about having enough time, it’s about making enough time.

Rachael Bermingham

I dig all kinds of competition.

Randy Castillo

No country is 100 percent free of human rights abuses.

Raul Castro

The first three issues of 'Cemetery Dance' were mainly horror, but now it's really a cross-genre magazine. It's all just snowballed.

Richard Chizmar

I recorded my first jazz record in the '70s.

Rita Coolidge

My grandmother passed at 104. She sang and wrote songs until she passed.

Rita Coolidge

I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.

Rita Coolidge

I rant and rave about noise pollution.

Robert Carlyle

I'm made in the Dominican. I'm from baseball country.

Robinson Cano

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Ron Carter

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

Ryan Cabrera

Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.

Richard Dawkins