Most recently weve been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there arent too many rooms there like Ronnie Scotts, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music. – Chuck Mangione
But for the children of the poorest people were stripping the curriculum, removing the arts and music, and drilling the children into useful labor. Were not valuing a child for the time in which she actually is a child. – Jonathan Kozol
I dont listen to a lot of new stuff. I just like the old stuff. Its all quite dramatic and atmospheric. Youd have an entire story in song. I never listen to, like, white music – I couldnt sing you a Zeppelin or Floyd song. – Amy Winehouse
I dont read music. I dont write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. – James Taylor
I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because theyre both subcorporate music – I mean, traditionally. – Ani DiFranco
Pop stardom is not very compelling. Im much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and theres no pomp and circumstance to the performance. Theres no, like, Ill be the rock star, you be the adulating fan. – Ani DiFranco
Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! Its kind of like the indie music scene. – Diablo Cody
And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that its third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, its much more polite. – Miriam Makeba
I became a set designer for opera. Im a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out. – Maurice Sendak
Its a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I dont see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. – Miriam Makeba
I didnt know much about him, and I wasnt a big country music fan. I listened to the Beatles and David Bowie, so I didnt know a lot about him. – Joaquin Phoenix
I think its a mistake where rap music is these days. It doesnt seem to be able to look out of the ghetto and thats ultimately unfortunate, because it defines our limitations. – Saul Williams
The Christian community latched onto a lot of my music, because there were a lot of things about my struggle they related to. But I didnt really want to come out and be identified as a Christian, because I didnt want to be a hypocrite, because my life wasnt right. – Scott Stapp
A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and theyre there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. – Harry Connick, Jr.
But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldnt be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars musics got these bars and measures you know. – Sun Ra
Theres an album by Antonio Carlos Jobim – the album with The Girl From Ipanema. Thats the most seductive music ever. – Harry Connick, Jr.
We have been working with Habitat for Humanity and we have built eighty homes, 80% of which are being lived in by New Orleans musicians. It is called the Musicians Village and at the center is the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music. – Harry Connick, Jr.
I practice and work hard at my music, but Im not saving lives here. – Harry Connick, Jr.
Music is what I love to do its in my veins. – Demi Lovato
Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. Its the image, not what you sing. – Rod Stewart
