“I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.” WantMusicHavensBandJazzJazz Band Author:Glenn Miller
“It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.” WantFeelingsSongMusicAppreciationConnectedMarvelous Author:Mary Chapin Carpenter
“I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.” WantMusicAliveKingsLutherStaying AliveLennon Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I want to do a musical movie. Like Evita, but with good music.” WantActorsMusicMusicalMovieEvita Author:Elton John
“Rock 'n' roll will never die. There'll always be some arrogant little brat who wants to make music with a guitar.” WantLittlesDiesMusicRocksGuitarRock N RollArrogantBrat Author:Dave Edmunds
“For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.” PeopleIfsWayWantImportantFunHalfMusicCatImportant ThingsBoredHaving FunUpsetVisualsHalf WaySmashing Author:Roger Waters
“I once sent him a song and asked him to mark a cross wherever he thought it was faulty. Brahms returned it untouched, saying 'I don't want to make a cemetery of your compositions.'” WantSongMusicCrossesMarkCompositionCemeteryBrahms Author:Hugo Wolf
“Most people use music as a couch; they want to be pillowed on it, relaxed and consoled for the stress of daily living. But serious music was never meant to be soporific.” PeopleWantUseWisdomMusicSeriousStressPianoMeant To BeRelaxedCouchesPlaying MusicInspirational MusicDaily LivingMusic LifeMusic And LifeMusic Is Life Author:Aaron Copland
“We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.” PeopleWantLifeNeedsWritingTryingWellsLittlesSpiritHopeMusicDoorsEasierWell BeingSongwritingClosingMaking ChangesCradleSinger SongwritersContributingMusic And LifeRay Of Hope Author:Merle Haggard
“I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!” ThinkingWantSometimesArtistFunForgetMusicCareersToo MuchSeriousGuiltyHaving Fun Author:Tim McGraw
“The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.” IfsKnowsWantFirstsSaidPlayWould BeSchoolBlackMusicBeing CoolBluegrass Author:Sam Bush
“There's something about comedy, funny things, that people want to pass them along. Serious things and personal things are much more privately enjoyed. That's why there are not a lot of sad viral videos.” PeopleWantMusicComedySeriousVideoEnjoyedFunny ThingsPersonal ThingsViralSerious ThingsViral Videos Author:Jonathan Coulton
“You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.” WantWritingHumanityStuffMusicBabyCelebrateRomantic LoveFamily LoveAbout Family Author:David Crosby
“The greatest thing is the internet and that means that anybody, you have just as much access as I do. And you can make your little tape and work on it and work on it until you got it the way you want it. And then you can put it on the net. And if it's any damn good somebody's gonna notice. That's happened over and over again now. To me that's good. That's good access that isn't controlled by the companies. I think that's a great thing.” IfsThinkingWayWantMeanLittlesCompanyMusicHappenedInternetAccessGreat ThingsDamnControlledTapeDamn Good Author:David Crosby
“I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.” WantGivingPlayKidsMusicGive MeGuitarSongwritingImpressFamous MusicianGuitar Music Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“I want people to hear the presence of God in the music.” PeopleWantMusicPresence Of God Author:Bryan White
“I didn't want to stay in the Stones, and be stuck in a position having to play a music I didn't like anymore and that restricted me from doing all the others things I'm interested in because of time.” WantPlayMusicPositionStonesStuck Author:Bill Wyman
“I say, play your own way. Don't play what the public want - you play what you want and let the public pick up on what you doing - even if it does take them fifteen, twenty years.” IfsWayWantYearsDoePlayMusicPicksTwentiesJazzWhat You WantFifteenMonkJazz MusicJazz MusicianPlaying Jazz Author:Thelonious Monk
“When I die, I want them to play The Black and Crazy Blues, I want to be cremated, put in a bag of pot and I want beautiful people to smoke me and hope they got something out of it.” PeopleWantPlayBeautifulDiesBlackMusicCrazyJazzSmokeBagsPotJazz MusicBeautiful PeoplePlaying JazzJazz And Blues Author:Rahsaan Roland Kirk