Famous Quotes
- When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
- Billy Joel on Music
- When I moved to New York, I fell head over heels back into country music and probably 'cause I missed something about Texas.
- Norah Jones on Music
- When I was a kid, I was following black soul music.
- Robert Plant on Music
- When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.
- Morgan Freeman on Music
- When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.
- Billy Joel on Music
- When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.
- Mikhail Baryshnikov on Music
- When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point.
- Maria Callas on Music
- When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
- E. W. Howe on Music
- When people in stadiums do the Wave, it's the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going.
- Jerry Saltz on Music
- When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Music
- When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
- Denis Diderot on Music
- When words leave off, music begins.
- Heinrich Heine on Music
- When you actually like each other, it translates to the music.
- Billy Corgan on Music
- When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.
- Jessica Simpson on Music
- When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?
- Khalil Gibran on Music
- Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
- Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen on Music
- Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
- Robert Browning on Music
- Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
- Billy Joel on Music
- Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?
- David Byrne on Music
- With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.
- David Byrne on Music
- Without a doubt, the best way to get to know me is through my music.
- Shania Twain on Music
- Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.
- Frank Zappa on Music
- Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Music
- Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
- Martin Mull on Music
- Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.
- Truman Capote on Music
- Yeah, I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.
- Jeff Bridges on Music
- Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing joy, rage, fear triumph, yearning and confusion.
- Yoga is almost like music in a way there's no end to it.
- You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot on Music
- You can have great sequences with music, but if you don't have the acting you're bored after 15 minutes. Or not bored, but you're like, 'So what?'
- Danny Boyle on Music
- You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?
- Bryan Ferry on Music
- You can never stop discovering music.
- Rashida Jones on Music
- You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.
- Etta James on Music
- You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.
- Robert Plant on Music
- You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.
- You can't really imagine music without technology.
- You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.
- Van Morrison on Music
- You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
- David Byrne on Music
- You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.
- Billy Corgan on Music
- You have to watch all sides of your advancement, you have to make sure people's bodies and minds are healthy and their morale is cool before you can really go out and play great music.
- Shirley Manson on Music
- You just pick up a chord, go twang, and you're got music.
- Sid Vicious on Music
- You know I used to listen to music a lot more.
- Brett Favre on Music
- You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins.
- David Coverdale on Music
- You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
- Keith Richards on Music
- You listen to a piece of music and it will remind you of something - it might make you happy, it might make you sad, but it is very emotive. And I think that Duran Duran have always understood that.
- Nick Rhodes on Music
- You shouldn't be in the music business if you're posing.
- Rod Stewart on Music
- You used to have to sing and convey emotion, and now, well, technically you can do anything with technology. It sucks for music today, but that's why that old music feels so good to me.
- Christina Aguilera on Music
- You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.
- Katherine Jenkins on Music
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