What are your favorite musician quotes??
I'm pretty sure someone has posted this before, but I wanted to put some up, and I encourage you all to do so in addition. So here goes;
Originally said by Sun Ra when harrased by a cop:
This is by far the worst planet I've ever been to
Originally said by Miles Davis
As long as I’ve been playing, they never say I done anything. They always say that some white guy did it.
Originally said by Johnny Rotten
I don't listen to music, I hate all music.
"I'm the best singer in the world and I'm in the biggest band in the Universe." -Liam Gallagher
"The Beatles play guitars, we play guitars. The Beatles got hair, we've got hair. The Beatles got arms, we've got arms."-Liam Gallagher
"I was brought up Catholic. Then I had a joint and looked at the world differently."-Liam Gallagher
"All I ever wanted to do was make a record. Here's what you do: you pick up your guitar, you rip a few people's tunes off, you swap them round a bit, get your brother in the band, punch his head in every now and again, and it sells. I'm a lucky bastard. I'm probably the single most lucky man in the world -- apart from our Liam." -Noel Gallagher
Noel, talking about Liam -- "It's a good thing we don't live in America, where guns are accessible, cause I would have blown his head off by now! The problem is I can't fire him because my mom would kill me!"
"I want Spock to be our tour manager. Could you imagine it? 'You have just thrown that table out the window. That is highly illogical.'"-Guigsy
I never understood the "coward dies" quote. Or I would have posted it myself.
Originally said by Duke Ellington:
What is music to you? What would you be without music? Music is everything. Nature is music (cicadas in the tropical night). The sea is music, the wind is music. The rain drumming on the roof and the storm raging in the sky are music. Music is the oldest entity. The scope of music is immense and infinite. It is the ‘esperanto’ of the world.
He probably said this before John Cage. Just goes to show that the Duke was not only ahead of his time, but a genius too. One of the rare musicians who surpassed the standards of the Western classical music and those born of the African tradition.
"more pain inside of my brain than the eyes of a little girl in a plane aimed at the world trade" .emenim
"theres someone i used to see, but she dont give a damn for me, well let me get to the point lets roll another joint and turn the radio aloud"
"people come, people go some grow young some grow cold, i woke up in between a memory and a dream" .TOM PETTY
"someone told me theres a girl out there with love in her eyes and flowers in her hair" .LED ZEPPELIN
yeah cobain was great musician i just wish he would have sang a bit more rather than moan, i know that was like apart of the image and style but the man had a voice he could have shown it off more, but this is wrong sayin somthin like this since hes gone and there is no doubt he is great i feel the same about zeppelin quotes there songs are like pure poetry
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosphy. Music is the electrical soil in which the spirit lives, thinks and invents." - Ludwig van Beethoven
"I think popular music in this country is one of the few things in the twentieth century that have made giant strides in reverse."
--Bing Crosby
"If you have to ask, you'll never know."
--Miles Davis' answer to the question, "What is Jazz?"
"It's much too late to do anything about rock & roll now ..." - Jerry Garcia
"... guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear ..." - Joe (Sach) Satriani
"... everyone was using tiny brushes and doing watercolors, while Jimi Hendrix was painting galactic scenes in Cinemascope. We are working in a field of mystical resonance, sound and vibration... that's what makes people cry, laugh and feel their hair stand up ... " - Carlos Santana
"I think I got the idea of tapping watching Jimmy Page do his "Heartbreaker" solo back in 1971. He was doing a pull-off to an open string, and I thought wait a minute, open string ... pull off. I can do that, but what if I use my finger as the nut and move it around ?" ... I just kind of took it and ran with it - Eddie Van Halen