Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-)

Love changes everything...

Books from Alibris: Andrew Lloyd Webber

Pete Seeger (1919-)

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

Sheet music: Pete Seeger

Stan Rogers (1949-1983)

God damn them all! / I was told we'd cruise the seas for American gold / We'd fire no guns-shed no tears / Now I'm a broken man on a Halifax pier / The last of Barrett's Privateers. - from Barrett's Privateers

Sheet music: Stan Rogers

John Prine (1946-)

Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq.

Sheet music: John Prine

Elvis Aaron Presley (1935-1977)

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

Sheet music: Elvis Aaron Presley

Glenn Miller (1904-1944)

By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.

Sheet music: Glenn Miller

Leadbelly (Huddie Ledbetter) (1885-1949)

The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you.

Sheet music: Leadbelly

Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in yourself and in your work. And the songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just about like you.

Sheet music: Woody Guthrie

Bob Dylan (1941-)

In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Sheet music: Bob Dylan

Walt Disney (1902-1966)

I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.

Books from Alibris: Walt Disney

Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten (1896-1987)

Among the most influential guitarists to surface during the roots music revival era, her wonderfully expressive and dexterous finger-picking style a major inspiration to the generations of players who followed in her wake. - Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide

Sheet music: Elizabeth (Libba) Cotten

Leonard Cohen (1934-)

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Books from Alibris on Leonard Cohen

Joan Baez (1941)

You don't get to choose how you are going to die or when. You can only decide how you're going to live.

Sheet music: Joan Baez