Music Origin Quotes

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

The blues are the roots and the other musics are the fruits

I first started rapping when I heard the Sugarhill Gang in 1979, when I was 11 years old in seventh grade.

I started to write my songs when I was 15 and living in the Congo.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me I'd ever seen before.

Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.

A nation creates music. The composer only arranges it.

Jazz was the pop music of its day, and all American popular music has stemmed from it one way or another.

We didn't invent this - this rock n' roll thing.

If you think about it, hip-hop came out of nothing. It was a response to oppression.

The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.

When I write a song, the music comes from my spirit, which is very playful and optimistic, but then the lyrics come from my head, which is in a different space.

Some of the best pop music ever has come out of the States.

We came out of bluegrass, so we could play.

Blues and jazz are such a root to music.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

When I started out in this business, I was a performer before I was a songwriter, I was a performer before I was recording. Performing is the roots. That's where it all came from. You didn't start out doing it because you wanted to make an album.

We probably, as primitive people, made music before we actually had a language, and that's where language comes from.

The human voice is the first and most natural musical instrument, also the most emotional.

In the year of 1902, when I was about seventeen years old, I happened to invade one of the sections [in New Orleans] where the birth of Jazz originated from.

The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.