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.
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.
- The Beatles' George Harrison's Final words
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
Being the Queen is not all about singing, and being a diva is not all about singing. It has much to do with your service to people. And your social contributions to your community and your civic contributions as well.
- Aretha Franklin
We can be heroes, just for one day.
- David Bowie, Heroes, 1977
"[Professor Longhair] is the Bach of rock"
- Allen Toussaint
Everybody understands the blues.
- Albert King
Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
- Otis Redding
The Blues Remembers Everything the Country Forgot
- Rapper Billy Woods
What's depressing today is that young singers are trying to get inside the blues, forgetting that those older singers used them to get outside their troubles...
- Bob Dylan
I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come, they've got some pretty little women and I'm gonna get me one.
- Big Joe Turner
We right back here again doin' the same thing.
- Mississippi Fred McDowell
I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style.
- Willie Nelson
This big white Lincoln pulled up with a dangerous-looking plywood trailer, with 'Boss of the Blues' painted on the side in black spray paint. It was T-Model [Ford].
- Dan Auerbach, on seeking out blues great T-Model Ford
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.
- David Bowie
If this band is our brightest hope for the future then we are committing rock n roll suicide
- Record Mirror review of QUEEN, 1974
For millions of years mankind lived just like animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk.
- Stephen Hawking, sampled, on Pink Floyd's 'Keep Talking' (Division Bell, Side 2, Track 9)
Cowboys are the only ones that stay in tune
- Jimi Hendrix
I've got the moves like Jagger
- Maroon 5 ft. Christina Aguilera, "Moves Like Jagger", 2011
All live recording, no overdubs. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., for three days.
- Drummer Lenny White on recording Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
Didn't I see you down in San Antone' on a hot & dusty night?
- Mick Jagger