Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shamir

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.

James Blake

I think the music that you make, often it's even better if you identify with other people.

Brooks Yang

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

King Krule

I guess from 12 onwards I was always into my music.

Yoko Ono

I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.

Anton Corbijn

I didn't make music videos in order to make a movie. Music videos were the goal for me, so it was never a step to something else. I approached it seriously.

Sarah Vowell

In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to hold up a cigarette lighter in a stadium to the tune of "mourn together, suffer together." City on a hill, though -- that has a backbeat we can dance to. And that's why the citizens of the United States not only elected and reelected Ronald Reagan; that's why we ARE Ronald Reagan.

William Howard Taft

The City that knows how.

Walt Whitman

This is the city, and I am one of the citizens/Whatever interests the rest interests me

Saint Augustine

Every city is a living body.

Will Oldham

Cities are made for enemies to destroy.

Zaha Hadid

I find industrial cities exciting. I like their toughness.

Winston Churchill

Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.

William Hazlitt

The number of objects we see from living in a large city amuses the mind like a perpetual raree-show, without supplying it with any ideas.

Yaphet Kotto

I like doing business in a black city.

Rebecca West

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

Regina Spektor

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

Tori Amos

I guess you go too far when pianos try to be guitars.

Vanessa Carlton

I tour with a piano, actually. Luckily I am able to hire people that deal with it completely and magically a piano appears on stage and then magically disappears when I leave

Vanessa Carlton

Plus, there were so many pianos in my house, so I couldn't really avoid it

Kiernan Shipka

I've been playing since I was 5, but I wouldn't say that I'm serious about the piano.

Pinetop Perkins

I play any piano with a good tune.

Keith Jarrett

I grew up with the piano. I learned its language as I learned to speak.

Julian Cope

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.