Famous Quotes
- It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
- Paul McCartney on Music
- It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
- Stevie Nicks on Music
- It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be introduced to us and I absorbed it totally, and it changed my complete outlook on music.
- Eric Clapton on Music
- It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American.
- Miriam Makeba on Music
- It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.
- John Mayer on Music
- It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
- It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.
- Adam Lambert on Music
- It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.
- It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.
- It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
- Alanis Morissette on Music
- It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.
- Jonathan Davis on Music
- It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'
- Beth Ditto on Music
- It's true, there's a lot of melancholy in my music. I don't know why, I'm not a melancholy person. I've always been drawn to it. Ever since I was a kid, if I had an album I would play the ballads on repeat.
- Norah Jones on Music
- Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
- Barbara Januszkiewicz on Music
- Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
- Warren G. Bennis on Music
- Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.
- Andres Segovia on Music
- Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
- Luciano Pavarotti on Music
- Life is like music it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
- Samuel Butler on Music
- Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
- Paracelsus on Music
- Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.
- Ronald Reagan on Music
- Like music and art, love of nature is a common language that can transcend political or social boundaries.
- Jimmy Carter on Music
- Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
- Robert Fripp on Music
- Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.
- Glenn Hughes on Music
- Live music is better.
- Neil Young on Music
- Long intros are cool because there's a little bit of anticipation, you know?
- Miranda Lambert on Music
- Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.
- Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
- Hector Berlioz on Music
- Love is a friendship set to music.
- Joseph Campbell on Music
- Lyrics are always misleading because they make people think that that's what the music is about.
- Lyrics are the only thing to do with music that haven't been made easier technically.
- Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.
- Scott Weiland on Music
- Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Music
- Marilyn Monroe never sold a platinum album. And more people know my music than what I look like.
- Shania Twain on Music
- Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel on Music
- Maybe I'm genetically more inclined to music - but the music I make is so far removed from Indian classical music. I grew up in Texas!
- Norah Jones on Music
- Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but that's just not going to happen in my lifetime.
- John Mayer on Music
- Medicine to produce health must examine disease and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.
- Men are wary of me because they know, by listening to my music, that a relationship with me will be quite deep.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
- Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.
- Ani DiFranco on Music
- Metal is still the biggest music now in America.
- Sebastian Bach on Music
- Mike Patton is a genius... It is definitely the hardest music I've ever played.
- Dave Lombardo on Music
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Groucho Marx on Music
- More than art, more than literature, music is universally accessible.
- Billy Joel on Music
- Most game music is based on loops effectively.
- Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.
- Billy Corgan on Music
- Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.
- Billy Joel on Music
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
- Mary Kay Ash on Music
- Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.
- Frank Zappa on Music
- Most recently we've been working in concert situations rather than clubs. because there aren't too many rooms there like Ronnie Scott's, that are pure music rooms, where people come specifically to listen to music.
- Chuck Mangione on Music
- Mumford & Sons' music appeals to a lot of America. I'm really proud of them.
- Ellie Goulding on Music
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