A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. - John Lennon

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star. - George Harrison

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either. - Robyn Hitch****

If you wanted to torture me, you'd tie me down and force me to watch our first five videos. - Jon Bon Jovi

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice. - Barry White

Frank Zappa has a few good ones

"You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream."

"If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state."

Frank Sinatra in his bitterness comes off as comical to.

"His kind of music is deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac. It fosters almost totally negative and destructive reactions in young people."
On Elvis Presley

Lee "Scratch" Perry - one thing good about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain

"Creole began to tell us what the blues were all about. They were not about anything very new. He and his boys up there were keeping it new, at the risk of ruin, destruction, madness and death, in order to find new ways to make us listen. For, while the tale of how we suffer, and how we are delighted, and how we may triumph is never new, it must always be heard. There isn't any other tale to tell, it's the only light we've got in all this darkness."

- From "Sonny's Blues", a short story by James Baldwin

you suffer, but why? - Napalm Death