Quotes by Musician

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Life, Stupidity, Universe

"Without deviation progress is not possible."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Progress,

"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Music, Time, Production

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Politics, Entertainment

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Beer, Country, Football, Weapons

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

People, Journalism, Talk

"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Ugly, Want

"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Love, Will, Years

"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Musicians, Will

"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Music, Performance, Sculpture

"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

People,

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Change, People, Favorite, Will

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Education, College, Want

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

End, Ending, Fire, Nostalgia, World

"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Music, People

"Music is always a commentary on society."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Music, Society

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

Frank Zappa, American Musician

Change, Dress, Style, Will

"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."

Jay Z, American Musician

Work, God, Being

"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"

Jay Z, American Musician

Life, Rap

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."

Jay Z, American Musician

Artist, Beginning, Company, Trying

"I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time."

Robin Zander, American Musician

Time, People, May

"We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international."

Robin Zander, American Musician

Thought,

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."

Townes Van Zandt, American Musician

Trying,

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."

Margaret Young, American Musician

Money, People, Order, Want

"The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

Margaret Young, American Musician

First, Order, Want

"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

World,

"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Life,

"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Now, Universe

"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Now,

"It's cool to go places where working people are happy."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

People,

"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Music, Jazz

"Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Country, Kids, Support, Troops

"One new feature or fresh take can change everything."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Change,

"Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

People,

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Play,

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Music, Power, First

"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

War,

"I'm not into this judgmental, religious-right kind of thing."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Religion, Religious

"The thing about my music is, there really is no point."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Music,

"To protect our freedoms, it seems we're going to have to relinquish some of our freedoms for a short period of time."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Time,

"When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

People, Want

"When the punk thing came along and I heard my friends saying, I hate these people with the pins in their ears. I said, Thank God, something got their attention."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

God, People, Attention, Friends

"With a lot of songs on this record, one verse doesn't relate to the next verse. I don't think that one day really relates to the next day in life."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Life, Day, Songs

"With Crazy Horse, it's all one big, growing, smoldering sound, and I'm part of it. It's like gliding, or some sort of natural surfing."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Sound,

"The cutthroat avenues of rock 'n' roll, I am fed up with. I don't want anything to do with it."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Want,

"I don't look at a knife the way I used to. I'm more aware of what it is. I think twice. This is a key finger. It's in every chord."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Key,

"Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record."

Neil Young, Canadian Musician

Music, People, Eyes, Today

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."

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"Without deviation progress is not possible."

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"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."

​

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

​

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

​

"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."

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"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

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"I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity."

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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

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"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."

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"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."

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"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff."

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"Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something."

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"I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird."

​

"One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds."

​

"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."

​

"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

​

"Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass."

​

"Music is always a commentary on society."

​

"No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to."

​

"I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard."

​

"The average rap life is two or three albums. You're lucky to get to your second album in rap!"

​

"I was forced to be an artist and a CEO from the beginning, so I was forced to be like a businessman because when I was trying to get a record deal, it was so hard to get a record deal on my own that it was either give up or create my own company."

​

"I think maybe we were just a little bit overdone. It was saturated. People may have gotten tired of us. We were everywhere, all the time."

​

"We're from Rockford, Illinois, but we've always thought international."

​

"I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best."

​

"Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier."

​

"The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want."

​

"As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more."

​

"As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks."

​

"The rockets and the satellites, spaceships that we're creating now, we're pollinating the universe."

​

"It's a blue album, but it's not a blues album. I'm not pretending all of a sudden now I'm blues."

​

"It's cool to go places where working people are happy."

​

"My music isn't anything but me. It has jazz in it, and rock'n'roll, and it has an urgency to it."

​

"Of course you have to support the troops. They're just kids. They're doing for their country what's expected of them."

​

"One new feature or fresh take can change everything."

​

"Some people put down all presidents. If you say anything good about any of them, they think you're supporting everything they do."

​

"Studios are passe for me. I'd rather play in a garage, in a truck, or a rehearsal hall, a club, or a basement."

​

"The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together."

​

"I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of."