Musical History Quotes

#1. I have no restrictions, no limits, no musical history to live with.

Bill Wyman

#2. Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Jason Aldean

#3. Jerry Garcia was a great American master and the Grateful Dead are not just a genuine piece of musical history, but also an important part of American history,

Trey Anastasio

#4. My secret heroes were Joe Morello, Ray Charles - who is, in my opinion, the most dominant figure in musical history in the 21st century - and Frank Sinatra. Those are my heroes. And as a writer, when Bob Dylan came along, it was a miracle because he gave us all permission to say anything!

J. D. Souther

#5. The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

Keith Sweat

#6. We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.

Chris Stein

#7. The rise of salsa was such an important time in musical history, not just in Latin music but music in general, because these guys created a new sound.

Jennifer Lopez

#8. Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Peter Warlock

#9. Has any movie captured a moment in social, let alone musical, history with as much acuity and joy as 'A Hard Day's Night'?

Richard Corliss

#10. Most of the masses still believe in magic, you know. Spells. Potions. It's a big business, I am told.

Philip K. Dick

#11. In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

Chris Squire

#12. The musical theater is a glorious and distinctly American innovation in the history of theater.

Diane Paulus

#13. I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

Brian Wilson

#14. I looked on astounded as from his ordinary life he made his art. We were both ordinary men, he and I. Yet from the ordinary he created Legends
and I from Legends created only the ordinary!

Peter Shaffer

#15. I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.

Black Francis

#16. Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

Steve Goodman

#17. ...the history of the Broadway musical is the history of short Jewish men yelling at each other.

Jack Viertel

#18. I can't wait for the Republican debates to start and there's literally 65 guys on one stage.

Conan O'Brien

#19. I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music.

Smokey Robinson

#20. The idea of a musical comedy was something we had had in mind for many years, but the project 'Igudesman & Joo: A Little Nightmare Music' has a history that goes back five years. I can say that this is the most successful project that we have ever done.

Aleksey Igudesman

#21. We must raise both the ceiling and the floor.

Sheryl Sandberg

#22. Punk rock has never really had much patience with musical virtuosity. Actually, it'd be more accurate to say that for most of its history, punk has been actively hostile to virtuosity.

James Surowiecki

#23. Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true.

William P. Young

#24. He had also written a computer

Eoin Colfer

#25. Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi - the one from his Sonata in A Major - come tripping out to meet me. The Toccata was my favorite composition; to my mind it was the greatest musical accomplishment in the entire history of the world, but I knew that if Ophelia found that out,

Alan Bradley

#26. In a science fiction movie, the first act is a little longer than it is in most movies because there is so much world building to do.

Joseph Kosinski

#27. I have been granted the terrible privilege of deciding what would have happened with no one left to contradict me. And maybe I am absolutely wrong.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#28. I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

Joanna Newsom

#29. What a thrill it was to play opposite Maurice Evans in this brilliant, dazzling musical, based on the life of two of the greatest personalities in stage history.

Dinah Sheridan