Explore 109 quotes by Musicians

Zappa, Frank and Peter Occhiogrosso. The Real Frank Zappa Book. Poseidon Press/Picador, 1989, ch. 17.

Anka, Paul. "My Way." Composed by Jacques Revaux. Performed by Frank Sinatra. My Way. Reprise Records, 1969.

Lehrer, Tom. "The Folk Song Army." That Was The Year That Was. Reprise Records/Warner Records, 1965.

Lightfoot, Gordon. "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald." Summertime Dream. Reprise Records, 1976.

Armstrong, Louis. What a Wonderful World. Written by George Douglas and George David Weiss. ABC Records, 1967.

Simon, Paul. "Bridge Over Troubled Water." Performed by Simon & Garfunkel. Bridge Over Troubled Water, Columbia Records, 1970.

Springsteen, Bruce. "The River." The River. Columbia Records, 1980.

Little Richard. The Arsenio Hall Show, written by Steven Alan Green, Paramount Domestic Television, 1990.

Morton, Jelly Roll. Quoted in Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and "Inventor of Jazz", written by Alan Lomax. Grosset & Dunlap, 1950.

Lennon, John. "Working Class Hero." John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band. Apple Records, 1970.

Orbison, Ray and Joe Melson. "Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel)." Performed by Ray Orbison. Monument Records, 1960.

McLean, Don. "American Pie." American Pie. United Artists Records, 1971.

Morrison, Jim. The Doors interviewed by Richard Goldstein. PBS Critique Show, 23 May 1969.

Robeson, Paul. Testimony before House Un-American Activities Committee. Un-American Activities Committee meeting. 12 June 1956, Washington, DC, USA.

Joel, Billy. "Vienna." The Stranger. Columbia Records, 1977.

Young, Neil and Jeff Blackburn. "My, My, Hey, Hey (Out of the Blue)." Performed by Neil Young and Crazy Horse. Rust Never Sleeps. Reprise Records, 1979.

Coleman, Ornette. Change of the Century. Atlantic Records, 1960, liner notes.

Morrison, Jim. Quoted in "Pop Music: Swimming to the Moon." Time Magazine, 24 Nov. 1967.