My Favourite Quotes About Music - Please Add Yours

[Derek Pearson]

Damn I wish I had the talent to write summat like this:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson

I will be adding more quotes as time and inclination pemits.

I'll also be asking for help in clarifying some quotes - all I've got is a vague jumble of words in the wrong order.

In the meantime please add yours.

derek x

[Trev Thomas]

my favourite "soul scene" quote...."am i alright for a beer" cockney steve

p.s.........derek, go to bed

Edited November 19, 2012 by trev thomas

[Alison H]

Damn I wish I had the talent to write summat like this:

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side."

Hunter S. Thompson

I will be adding more quotes as time and inclination pemits.

I'll also be asking for help in clarifying some quotes - all I've got is a vague jumble of words in the wrong order.

In the meantime please add yours.

derek x

Quality DP ha ha ha love it!!!

Can't think of any at this un-godly hour, but will get back to you when I do

Ali x

[Alison H]

my favourite "soul scene" quote...."am i alright for a beer" cockney steve

"..... or a lift ?" (Cockney Steve too) lol

[Trev Thomas]

Quality DP ha ha ha love it!!!

Can't think of any at this un-godly hour, but will get back to you when I do

Ali x

you can go to bed too

[Alison H]

you can go to bed too

alright Dad !!!! Ha ha

Na nite x

[Trev Thomas]

dont know where your going with this thread derek... do you mean quotes from artists or quotes from charactures on the scene..

if the latter... how about... "i dont mind piss and shit , but i cant stand filth" BRUN (wakefield.. at bradford nighter circa.. mid 90's)

Edited November 19, 2012 by trev thomas

[Trev Thomas]

alright Dad !!!! Ha ha

Na nite x

na night sweetheart xxx

[Chas]

"One thing about music,when it hits,you feel no pain"..Bob Marley.

[Chas]

"Hair is the first thing,and teeth the second.Hair and teeth,a man got those two,he's got the lot"..James Brown.

[Trev Thomas]

"One thing about music,when it hits,you feel no pain"..Bob Marley.

now were talkin....one of the greatest lyrics EVER robert nesta marley R.I.P.

[Kris Holmes]

I always liked this one by minimalist composer Robert Wyatt

"First of all, I am a real Minimalist, because I don't do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don't do very much."

- Robert Wyatt

[Guest turntableterra]

i had one of them, and one of them, and one of them... but i sold em all back then

[Roburt]

. I never dance to anything that's not OVO ........ Norman Soultrousers at Kings Hall Niter.

[TOAD]

electricty killed real music

[Dave Moore]

When asked about The Sweet Three on Decca :

"It's like being a Jockey. You ride thousands of horses but you only really remember the winners!". - Jimmy "The Wiz" Wisner

Regards,

Dave

[Dave Moore]

"Success has many Fathers, but failure is an orphan" - Luther Randolph (Harthon/Dynodynamics)

[Guest MrC]

I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down'

Bob Newhart

[KevH]

"Music gives soul to the universe,wings to the mind,flight to the imagination and life to everything".

Me after a niter.

Not really ...Plato.

[Guest gordon russell]

. I never dance to anything that's not OVO ........ Norman Soultrousers at Kings Hall Niter.

bet he don,t do much dancing there then

[Gene-R]

"If music be the food of love...........then we are all nymphomaniacs".

[nickp]

'Playing 'Bop' is like playing scrabble with all the vowels missing.'

Duke Ellington.

[Windlesoul]

"..... or a lift ?" (Cockney Steve too) lol

... or a fag (and I don't smoke) (more Cockney Steve)

[Alison H]

... or a fag (and I don't smoke) (more Cockney Steve)

:lol:

[Alison H]

Music is my religion - Jimi Hendrix

I need drama in my life to keep making music - Eminem

Edited November 19, 2012 by Alison H

[Alison H]

"If music be the food of love...........then we are all nymphomaniacs".

............. or just fat

[Ric-tic]

daryl hall on the temptations cloud 9

'it was like psychedilia and soul music got together and had a baby'

[arnie j]

a soul scene quote............

when asked by a film crew where he gets his energy from to dance all night,my mate pickle(rip) replied..........i buy it from him over there !

jason

[Alison H]

a soul scene quote............

when asked by a film crew where he gets his energy from to dance all night,my mate pickle(rip) replied..........i buy it from him over there !

jason

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

[Guest MrC]

And the night shall be filled with music,

And the cares that infest the day

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs

And as silently steal away.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

[Guest in town Mikey]

Why does the Northern Soul Top 500 book quote me? I didnt say that - Solid Hit Soul Dave.

[Denbo]

"That record's as good as anything I've heard before"

[Spacehopper]

just see a good one on facebook....'i never got the f++++++ guitar shaped pool!'..bruce foxton

[Chas]

"I was born with music inside me,music was one of my parts,like my ribs,kidneys,liver,heart.It was a force already inside me when I arrived on the scene,it was a necessity for me,like food or water"..Ray Charles.

[Chas]

"Music is everybody's posession,It's only publishers who think that people own it"..John Lennon.

[Chas]

"If you want to make beautiful music,you must play the black and white keys together"..Richard M Nixon.

[nubes]

Music...is like oxygen...i need to breathe ...smell...luxirate in all of its glory...good or bad...i need to hear it....without it...i cant breathe....soul music....to me is essential to my being.....without it...i dont feel....i dont see....it walks with me ....side by side...every step.....its is there....i hear a forgone tune....it propels me back into that corridor of Past Times..where those whose roles was prominent for that scene of time are there..those who have passed...are there once more..and then that memory....from the head to the heart...ending with that tear down the cheek....allows ya to be there once again...feelling seeing....being....loving... Yep..that that is what music means to me...Delxxxxxx

[Middleman]

1 "I'm playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order"

2 "Music is the space between the notes"

[Guest DaveSwift]

some good quotes - mines a bit obvious 'its whats in the grooves that counts'

[Mark S]

In the sleeve notes on the Junior Walker album Shotgun ( MFP ) " Music from the heart for the feet " sums it up nicely for me

[Guest MrC]

Dennis Pennis: [to Mick Hucknall] How do you describe your voice? Is it rock or is pop? Cos I hear you and I think you are soul. You are-soul!

Edited November 26, 2012 by MrC

[Drew3]

I used to manage a mens footy team and a few years ago a couple of my players who were in their twenties tagged along to a soul do in Denton.

On picking up a flyer that proclaimed an 'Oldies night' one of them remarked " you mean to tell me that there is another soul do somewhere with people older than this lot"!!!!!!!

Drew.

[Guest sharmo 1]

I used to work in a scrap yard run by a real old skool nutter called Vic Brewen the hardest man i ever met .i used to talk about music and he never seemed intrested in talking about it one day i said Vic what sort of music do you like ? He said "Simon I don't like music or Dolphins or anything else that's crap" Regards David Niven.

[Johnmcc]

" ." - John Cage

[Johnmcc]

And an authentic one:

"It was all about the pussy man, all about the pussy" - Frank Bryant (Just Brothers, Funk Brothers, etc.)

[Kevinkent]

BBC4's excellent The Joy Of The Single, was a programme full of quotable material.

From it, here's a couple of vinyl related quotes which I hope I've scribbled down and attributed correctly:

" I even like the scratchiness of a 45 when you put it on..... it's like foreplay....you know something good is gonna come ! " - Suzi Quatro

" CD's ....they're a little bit insipid ....they're all shine and no substance " - Norman Cooke

followed by a demonstration of how to handle vinyl, which included ...

" This bit is sacred...the grooves are sacred " - Norman Cooke

- Kev

Edited November 26, 2012 by KevinKent

[Geeselad]

[Back Street Blue]

"if they don't dance to this they're either dead or deaf" courtesy of Nik Cheetham promoter of "Rude" garage nights in Manchester 1990's

[Barry]

I always liked this one by minimalist composer Robert Wyatt

"First of all, I am a real Minimalist, because I don't do very much. I know some minimalists who call themselves minimalist but they do loads of minimalism. That is cheating. I really don't do very much."

- Robert Wyatt

Surely a minimalist's response would have been....

"I Minimalist"

[Guest Dave Turner]

Not exactly a quote but always makes me laugh.

At a recording of Ready, Steady, Go in 1964 Mick Jagger asked Dave Godin to introduce him to Marvin Gaye.

Godin - "I told him to f*ck off and introduce himself"

Edited December 4, 2012 by Dave Turner