Famous Quotes
- Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.
- Entertainment came out of this thing called a television, and it was gray. Most of the films that we saw at the cinema were black and white. It was a gray world. And music somehow was in color.
- Pete Townshend on Music
- Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
- Robert Plant on Music
- Even from a listening end now, I'm still completely a fan of music.
- Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
- Thomas Carlyle on Music
- Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.
- Samuel Butler on Music
- Every so often, I feel I should graduate to classical music, properly. But the truth is, I'm more likely to listen to rock music.
- Tony Blair on Music
- Everything revolves around the music when it comes to Tool.
- Maynard James Keenan on Music
- Everything we release with Tool is inspired by our music.
- Maynard James Keenan on Music
- Everywhere I go I buy new music shirts.
- Shaun White on Music
- Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
- Isaac Stern on Music
- Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.
- Noel Coward on Music
- Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
- Ingmar Bergman on Music
- First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
- Carlos Santana on Music
- Folk music is a bunch of fat people.
- For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.
- William Wordsworth on Music
- For instance, I'm always fascinated to see whether, given the kind of fairly known and established form called popular music, whether there is some magic combination that nobody has hit upon before.
- For me making music is part social, part interaction, part collaboration.
- Norah Jones on Music
- For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
- Paula Cole on Music
- For me the visual is just as important as the music.
- Christina Aguilera on Music
- For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
- Taylor Swift on Music
- For me, music and life are all about style.
- Miles Davis on Music
- For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
- Reba McEntire on Music
- For some reason, the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.
- Dennis Prager on Music
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'.
- Billie Joe Armstrong on Music
- For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.
- For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.
- Billy Joel on Music
- From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.
- John Philip Sousa on Music
- From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.
- Eric Clapton on Music
- Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.
- Shaun White on Music
- Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.
- Keith Richards on Music
- Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.
- Dave Matthews on Music
- Good music is very close to primitive language.
- Denis Diderot on Music
- Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan on Music
- Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.
- Scott Weiland on Music
- Great music is in a sense serene it is certain of the values it asserts.
- Rebecca West on Music
- Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.
- Cameron Crowe on Music
- Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.
- Rod Stewart on Music
- Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.
- Wolfman Jack on Music
- Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being dished up to the world as American popular music today?
- Billy Joel on Music
- He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
- Billy Wilder on Music
- He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein on Music
- Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
- Fiona Apple on Music
- Hell is full of musical amateurs.
- George Bernard Shaw on Music
- Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.
- High school music teachers... nobody makes a living off it.
- David Ogden Stiers on Music
- Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!
- Lauryn Hill on Music
- Hip-hop's always reached out to kids. If you look at the last 10 big albums it might seem ironic. But when I look at the history of this music it's always had a lot of positivity.
- Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.
- Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.
- John Mayer on Music
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