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Music Quotes

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.

I'm movin' around and I can't stand still, I'm Bo Diddley.
- Jack White, I'm Shakin'
Well, it's too bad, that our friends can't be with us today. Well, it's too bad the machine that we built would never save us.
- Jimi Hendrix, "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
"I'd like to do a song of great social and political import"
- Janis Joplin
Blues was my first love; it was the first thing where I said 'Oh man, this is the stuff!
- Carlos Santana
Music to me is like Breathing. I don't get tired of music, I don't get tired of breathing.
- Ray Charles
We played four nights at the Fillmore West, where we opened for B.B. King and Buddy Guy.
- Gregg Allman
We proved that we can make a hit record without Jerry Wexler eating sandwiches with us.
- Singer Tamiko Jones on Solomon Burke
"I’m pleased to include Dockery Plantation on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Apart from the town’s unique historical legacy, which includes printing its own money, Dockery was home to famed bluesman Charley Patton and played a significant role in the development of the Delta blues"
- Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour
Politics is the entertainment division of the military industrial complex
- Frank Zappa
Take you a glass of water, make it against the law. See how good the water tastes when you can't have any at all.
- John Fogerty, Bootleg, Bayou Country (1969)
If you'll notice, there's Muddy Waters songs all through the Allman Brothers records. My brother would play that stuff on acoustic for hours.
- Gregg Allman
It's too bad the machine that we built would never save us.
- Jimi Hendrix, "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
I mean what’s the point in listening to us doing “I’m A King Bee” when you can listen to Slim Harpo doing it?
- Keith Richards
Howard just pointed with his gun and said, 'That way, down Highway 61'
- Bob Dylan
Any man who can stop a riot can also start one
- Vice President Spyro Agnew on James Brown
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
- The Who, "Won’t Get Fooled Again", 1971
Uhuh. But it wasn’t called rap, it was called ‘signifyin‘’. But the new kids today on the block call it rap
- Bo Diddley, responding to the claim his 1959 "Say Man" was one of the first Rap Records
I'll be glad to get to hell so I can lay down by the fire and rest
- Delta blues guitarist Johnny Shines
I play American and World music, Texas style
- Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
That was my introduction to T-Model Ford. It had a big influence on me, and I thought I could have fun doing this kind of music. Later, a friend and I went down to Greenville, Mississippi, to find T-Model Ford.
- Dan Auerbach, The Black Keys