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 was born with music inside me.
- Ray Charles
When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
- Robert Plant
And everything under the sun is in tune but the sun is eclipsed by the moon
- Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, (1793)
I've got the moves like Jagger
- Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger", 2011
I jump 'em from other writers, but I arrange 'em my own way.
- Blind Willie McTell
Don't touch my bags if you please, mister customs man...
- Arlo Guthrie, "Coming Into Los Angeles"
I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time - I'll give it right back to you one of these days...
- Jimi Hendrix, Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
As far as I know, they may even try to wrap me up in cellophane and try to sell me. Brother sell me, and don't worry about lookin' at the score...
- Jimi Hendrix, "Somewhere", recorded 1968, released 2013
Record making is an extraordinary experience.
- Robbie Robertson, The Band
A little past noontime, a ‘jake-leg’ preacher said some words over his body and we committed his soul to the earth.
- Rose Eskridge, grave digger's wife, on the burial of Robert Johnson
Well here it is the late 1970s going on 1985, you know so much of the music we hear today is pre-programmed electronic disco we never get to hear bluesmen practicing their craft anymore
- Dan Aykroyd's Blues Brothers Introduction, opening for Steve Martin, September 9, 1978
We'd like to thank the Beatles for lending us their stadium.
- Sting, The Police, to a packed Shea Stadium, NYC, August 18, 1983
I had this idea to write a song based on the Stagger Lee myth. The chorus is like a blues lyric. You can imagine it being sung to a country-blues guitar riff,” he told Rolling Stone’s Mark Kemp in 1997.
- Beck to Rolling Stone Magazine on his 1996 hit single “Devil’s Haircut”
Thank you, that was for Wilson Pickett
- Jake Blues / John Belushi
My choice in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse, or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.
- Harry S. Truman, 33rd President of the United States
It's safe to sing somebody out there's got a problem with almost anything you'll do.
- The White Stripes, "300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues", 2007
When I heard Howlin' Wolf, I knew this is where the soul of man never dies.
- Sam Phillips, Owner, Sun Records
I think in this country we keep returning to blues and country because they're our two indigenous musical forms.
- Jim Morrison, The Doors
Try taking the horn out of your mouth.
- Miles Davis to John Coltrane, who said he didn't know how to stop a solo
With the power of soul, anything is possible
- Jimi Hendrix