Music is perhaps my greatest passion, even if this web site doesn't necessarily reflect that at first glance. My original quotations page was growing too large so I moved the quotations related to film to another page and the ones about music, were further devided into song lyrics and quotations about music, which is the page you're now reading.
George Jones said upon completing the recording of "He stopped loving her today":
Nobody will buy that morbid son of a bitch.
I always appear shorter, stouter, greyer, and even more hopelessly inept when I am in their godlike presence, but I am hooked nonetheless and would willingly crawl naked over broken glass to hear their twisted intricate flurries of sonic majesty.I finally got to see the Sadies live. I previously bought a ticked during my MBA but things were fucked up, I was fucked up and I went to the Brickyard one day too late. So did some other people, I think those people who bought tickets or wrote down the show really far in advance were caught out when the date changed...
Someone said a good song reveals stuff you don't want others to know about you. A great song, reveals stuff you don't want to know about yourself.
Pat MacDonald
What is wrong with mainstream Country music radio today, is not enough songs about killing people.I'm pretty sure I read this in an interview or a book and while trying to find a reference to it online I turned up this article on Country music in the Economist.
Steve Earle
To me, making a tape is like writing a letter. There's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again. A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with "Got to Get You Off My Mind," but then realized that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straightaway, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to turn it up a notch, or cool it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs and...oh, there are loads of rules.
Nick Hornby
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.
Nick Hornby
There's a rare contradiction in Neil Young's work. He works so hard as a songwriter, and he's written a phenomenal number of perfect songs. And, at the same time, he doesn't give a fuck. That comes from caring about essence. There can be things out of tune and all wild-sounding and not recorded meticulously. And he doesn't care. He's made whole albums that aren't great, and instead of going back to a formula that he knows works, he would rather represent where he is at the time. That's what's so awesome: watching his career wax and wane according to the truth of his character at the moment. It's never phony. It's always real. The truth is not always perfect.
Flea
I started noticing a while back that it's not just spillover from Ween fans anymore. We're definitely bringing in our own crowd, and for some reason, Moistboyz fans in general tend to be a lot harder, more deranged. I mean, Ween never got that many girls--usually we only got fat, ugly girls--but the Moistboyz get absolutely none. None whatsoever. It's a roomful of guys who commence beating the shit out of each other as soon as we start playing. So touring is pretty cool for us. We get to go out and watch fights every night from the stage for a few weeks. When I look out and see people punching each other in the side of the head, I know we're getting across.
Mickey Melchiondo
The Meters are the best motherfuckin band in the world.
Mick Jagger
I'd like to get a beer-holder on my guitar like they have on boats.
James Hetfield
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
Frank Zappa
Phrase scrawled on Woody Guthrie's guitar:
This machine kills fascists.
There are two kinds of music -- good music and bad music. Good music is music I want to hear. Bad music is music that I don't want to hear.
Fran Lebowitz
I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics.
Johnny Mercer
Could be I'm just some big city sucker for a hard-rocking, Nietzsche-reading, Che Guevara-quoting redneck country singer, but... if Steve Earle isn't a Great American, he'll have to do until the real thing comes along.
Mark Jacobson Men's Journal
Honest. Pure. Simple. These are the qualities that attracted us to punk rock. The fact that the four of us, or any other bunch of like-minded jackasses for that matter, could get up on a stage and just rock out is something that we find immeasureaably appealing. And it has been our search for the best that rock-n-roll has to offer which has inevitably led us down that old dirt road to the country. Simple, (there's that word again) three chord songs, sung from experience, played on an old, beat up accoustic guitar - that's what we're talkin' about here. We're no virtuosos, but we had a damn good time makin' this record and we're hoping you have a damn good time listening to it. We must've been high.
The Supersuckers
But then, that's why Springsteen's audience is, according to his detractors, a bunch of middle-class mortgage-payers punching the air with The Boss in celebration of things they're never gonna do.
Gary Mulholland
Steve Earle's answering machine circa 1989:
This is Steve. I'm probably out shooting heroin, chasing thirteen-year-old girls, and beating up cops. But I'm old and I tire easily so leave a message and I'll get back to you.
There's no prettier sight than looking back on a town you left behind...
Townes Van Zandt
Without music life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche
On Spirit of the West:
We are an alternative pop band, well known for sweat and high volume; able to drain small cottage breweries in a single gig; environmentally conscious when conscious at all.
Vince Ditrich of SOTW