We keep a database of awesome hand-picked quotes from a variety of authors, musicians, and key people about music, soul, jazz, musicianship, guitars and all things music! Every order you receive from our shop, find a fun new music quote on the bottom of your packing slip! Below are some of our favorites.
Jazz speaks for life.
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oh look out you rock & rollers
- David Bowie, "Changes", 1971
Rock star, everybody know me, money and fame like David Bowie.
- E-40, "Rock Stars", 2012
And I was born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus rollin' down highway 41
- Gregg Allman, The Allman Brothers, Ramblin' Man (1973)
It's hard to be free but when it works, it sure is worth it
- Janis Joplin
The heart is a muscle used for the blues
- Otis Taylor
Now when I was a young boy at the age of five, my mother said I was gonna be the greatest man alive.
- Muddy Waters
I'm movin' around and I can't stand still, I'm Bo Diddley.
- Jack White, I'm Shakin'
In the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway American dream
- Bruce Springsteen, "Born to Run", 1975
It is a great life, this life of music.
- Ahmet Ertegun, Atlantic Records
Things I used to do all night take me all night to do now
- R.L. Burnside, "Heat", 1998
Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
- Frank Zappa
Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe, put your ray gun to my head
- David Bowie, Moonage Daydream, 1972
Somebody, somebody I’d never seen before, handed me a Lead Belly record with the song 'Cotton Fields' on it. And that record changed my life right then and there.
- Bob Dylan
If you choose not to decide you still have made a choice
- Rush - "Freewill" (1980)
You have to be very selfish to be original.
- Miles Davis
The taledragger, from Greeeenville, Mississippi; I'm the boss of the blues. Can't read can't write ain't never been to school a day in my life.
- Opening line of T-Model Ford's "Bad Man", 2002
If Charlie Parker were a gunslinger, there's be a whole lot of dead copycats.
- Charles Mingus
The Blues is the roots of all American music.
- Willie Dixon
It means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.
- Don McLean, on the meaning behind his song "American Pie"