Music Quotes

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.

Nat King Cole

I'm a musician. I play instruments. I dabble in the hip-hop field. That doesn't take vocal ability necessarily.

Nick Cannon

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act.

Nick Cave

When you're talking about rock n' roll, myth-making is what it's all about.

Nick Cave

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.

Noam Chomsky

Pakistan is not a unified country.

Noam Chomsky

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

Noel Coward

Ben Smith's quick-hit campaign 'scoops' are about as viral as cat videos. That fits with Buzzfeed.

Nick Denton

President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.

Newt Gingrich

We eat up artists like there's going to be a famine at the end.

Nikki Giovanni

Every song that I play I wrote by myself.

Noel Gallagher

I know girls like musicians!

Nolan Gould

I allowed artists to play for as long as they felt they could justifiably continue to create.

Norman Granz

Jazz was uplifted by what I did.

Norman Granz

My function at Verve was that of a genuine producer in artists and repertoire.

Norman Granz

The record companies are interested in the kind of sales they can get from the rock groups.

Norman Granz

To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

Nick Hornby

I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

Neil Innes

But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.

Neil Innes

I had very modest expectations when I first moved to New York. I didn't even expect to get a record deal.

Norah Jones

I was really excited to have the opportunity to make Fiddler.

Norman Jewison