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.
We'll hold hands and we'll watch the sunrise from the bottom of the sea
- Jimi Hendrix
Schizophrenic? I'm Bleeding Quadrophenic.
- The Who, Quadrophenia, 1973
Curtis Loew was the finest picker to ever play the blues
- Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Ballad of Curtis Lowe
I just want to tell you 'bout a man name Coon, His home was in Tennessee. He made his living stealing chickens.
- Pink Anderson
The very first instrument I played was the bottom of my feet, workin' out rhythms, tap dancing... We used to dance all up and down Bourbon Street.
- Henry Byrd, better known as Professor Longhair
Don't play the saxophone, let the saxophone play you.
- Charlie Parker
[John Coltrane's] 'A Love Supreme' wasn't a jazz record. They were just trying to make a musical statement.
- Ravi Coltrane, John's son
Jazz is my religion, and Surrealism is my point of view.
- Ted Joans
He carried me around to the clubs and helped me get started.
- Howlin' Wolf on Muddy Waters
Mother, should I build the wall? Mother, should I run for president? Mother, should I trust the government?
- Roger Waters, on Pink Floyd's "Mother"
It's a god-awful small affair, to the girl with the mousy hair
- David Bowie, "Life on Mars?", 1971
I was born in a cross-fire hurricane and I howled at my ma' in the driving rain
- Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Jumpin' Jack Flash (1968)
This Record Should Be Played Loud
- Back cover of The Rolling Stones' Let It Bleed
Perfect is about the most boring thing on earth
- Merle Haggard
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
- Miles Davis
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
- Levon Helm, The Band
Come writers and critics who prophesize with your pen, and keep your eyes wide the chance won't come again
- Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A'changin, 1964
Bring me champagne when I'm thirsty, bring me reefer when I want to get high.
- Muddy Waters
I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.
- Johnny Winter
The local law enforcement authorities never expected ... the spirit of 'Music, Love and Flowers' to take over to the point where they'd allow themselves to be festooned with flowers.
- Founder Lou Adler on the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival