Quotes about music
99 quotes from 76 people
Stevie Nicksborn 1948Kia Makarechi, “Stevie Nicks On Fleetwood Mac’s Reunion Tour, Rihanna, Kanye West & Her Early Years In Music”, Huffington Post, 3 December 2012
Willie Nelsonborn 1933Playboy interview, November 2002.
Ariana Grandeborn 1993Twitter statement on the Manchester terrorist attack (26 May 2017)Music, the greatest good that mortals know,
And all of heaven we have below.
Joseph Addison1672–1719Song for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692), st. 3
Ann Coulterborn 1961Interview in Jambands (June 23, 2006).Any time I make a record it’s followed by a painting period. It’s good crop rotation.
Joni Mitchellborn 1943Woman of Heart and Mind: A Life Story (2003)To be a frontman you have to be half very driven and half a total knob. I like to think I’m both.
Chris Martinborn 1977On a Time Out London interview, June 8-15, 2005.There ain’t a note that I play on stage that can’t be traced back directly to my mother and father.
Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)- Bruce Springsteenborn 1949Bruce Springsteen Talking (2004)
John Mayerborn 1977Esquire magazine (November 1, 2004)Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.
John Mayerborn 1977Mayer, John (2004). “Jimi Hendrix” RollingStone.com (accessed March 21, 2007)
Alice Cooperborn 1948Poppin (1969)- Alice Cooperborn 1948On Marilyn Manson, as quoted in Celebrity Diss and Tell: Stars Talk About Each Other (2005) by Boze Hadleigh
Fred Astaire1899–1987from Astaire’s autobiography Steps in Time, 1959, p. 325.- Fred Astaire1899–1987Said to Henry Ephron; quoted in Henry Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything (1977)