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Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? Good night!
John Lydonborn 1956At the end of the last Sex Pistols concert, Winterland Theater, San Francisco, California (14 January 1978)
I was born with music inside me.
Ray Charles1930–2004Brother Ray: Ray Charles’ Own Story (1978), p. 8
Music is the universal language of mankind — poetry their universal pastime and delight.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882Outre-Mer (1835).
- Poetry
Everything on this planet has something to do with music. Music functions in the realm of sculptured air.
Frank Zappa1940–1993Oui interview (1979)
I wouldn’t wear a tie-dyed tee-shirt unless it was dyed with the urine of Phil Collins and the blood of Jerry Garcia.
KCKurt Cobain1967–1994As quoted in Melody Maker (18 July 1992)
- Clever Jabs
People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around — the music and the ideas.
Bob Dylanborn 1941The Guardian (13 February 1992)
- Ideas
Poetry Fetter’d. Fetters the Human Race. Nations are Destroy’d, or Flourish, in proportion as Their Poetry, Painting, and Music are Destroy’d or Flourish!
William Blake1757–1827Jerusalem The Emanation of The Giant Albion (c. 1803–1820)
- Art
- Poetry
I would like to say to you, to the leaders of the left, and the leaders of the right, I sing… I sing for everyone. My song has no flag, my song has no party.
Leonard Cohen1934–2016Warsaw concert (1985)
- Politics
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Edgar Degas1834–1917Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), “As He Grows Old”, p. 87
- Art
- Dancing
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I’m not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does.
David Bowie1947–2016Livewire interview (2002)
Schoenberg’s music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.
Wassily Kandinsky1866–1944Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911), tr. Michael T. Sadler (1914); Dover reprint (1977), p. 17
As for my feelings toward “Over the Rainbow”, it’s become part of my life. It is so symbolic of all dreams and wishes that I’m sure that’s why people sometimes get tears in their eyes when they hear it.
Judy Garland1922–1969Letter to Harold Arlen, as quoted in Over the Rainbow: The Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America (1991) by Paul Nathanson, p. 340
Criticism didn’t really stop us and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.
Paul McCartneyborn 1942The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96
- Clever Jabs
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can’t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That’s going too far.
Paul McCartneyborn 1942The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969), p. 107
- Comedy
Yo, Taylor, I’m really happy for you, I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all time!
Kanye Westborn 19772009 MTV Video Music Awards (September 13, 2009)