#music

There's still a lot I need to do as a player, as a musician, as a sound creator. I have commissioned 170 pieces: that's still not enough, there are still lots and lots of composers I would like to approach. When I see a composer and I see a performer, I think to combine those forces. ↗

— Evelyn Glennie

#combine #commissioned #composer #composers #creator

I've been playing music all my life, from being a choir soloist at Symphony Hall as a youngster to playing in bands through high school and college at Kent State. Went in the service at 17, out before I was 21. ↗

— Arthur Godfrey

#been #before #being #choir #college

Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off. ↗

— Howard Stringer

#books #competing #dying #get #hell

Record covers helped me discover a lot of music that I wasn't aware of. ↗

— Martin Gore

#covers #discover #helped #i #lot

If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice. ↗

— Benny Goodman

#got #guy #him #i #music

I believe that in music and in a lot of things it's kind of like surfing, you can have a really big wave sometimes and then you can have a smaller wave. ↗

— Delta Goodrem

#big #i #i believe #i believe that #kind

Do I think all contemporary Christian music is good? No. ↗

— Amy Grant

#christian music #contemporary #good #i #i think

It was really terrific but Foreigner was nothing like Yes and that style did not suit our music. ↗

— Lou Gramm

#foreigner #like #music #nothing #our

I think mp3s are great if you are unknown and trying to get started. It's a good way to get your music out and about. But for those who are established, it's not good at all. ↗

— Crystal Waters

#established #get #good #good way #great

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#average #band #big #big band #business