Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chico Hamilton

Personally, I can't see how anyone can produce any beautiful music out of being angry.

Chico Hamilton

At this stage of my life, I've dedicated myself to playing what I want to play, how I want to play it for the rest of my time. Regardless of whether one might like it or one might not like it, this is where I am.

Chico Hamilton

The type of band that I have now, the type of music that we're playing you either like it or you dislike it. If you dislike it, you probably don't know why. By the same token, you can't even really say why you like it.

Chico Hamilton

I don't dig staying in one groove.

Chick Corea

It's one thing to just play a tune, or play a program of music, but it's another thing to practically create a new language of music, which is what Kind of Blue did.

Chick Corea

I no longer wanted to satisfy myself. I really want to connect with the world and make my music mean something to people.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Charles Stewart Parnell

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Sometimes being away, on location, I feel like I'm away for much of my own life. I want to be better at staying connected.

Deb Caletti

Sometimes you've got to make a mess before you clean it up.

Kurt Vonnegut

No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.

Mark Cuban

Sometimes the best properties aren't necessarily the biggest properties.

Bill Murray

I act like a jerk sometimes.

Chi McBride

You have to take some dramatic license just to make it entertaining sometimes

Chance The Rapper

Sometimes the truth don't rhyme

Beth Moore

Sometimes you have to hold tight to what God has already said because you can get so clouded over emotionally that you can no longer rely on what feels right or wrong.

Dave Davies

I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

James Miller

...power to fill her life, with happiness, to wake her heart's chords to touch her soul's depths.

Billy Gibbons

Same three guys, right here. Same three chords right here. And we've been doing this for 35 years.

Jeff Tweedy

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

Kendra Wilkinson

I would get my laugh insured! Because my laugh is very important: it's a million dollar laugh, so if my vocal chords make my laugh any different, then I'm going to have to get insured.

Jose Gonzalez

Ever since I released my first album, I've tried not to use minor chords as the main element in songs. The way I sing is too melancholic.

Chris Lehane

Even as we speak, they really haven't determined what the tones and right chords are. On the communications level, these story lines get written very quickly. . . . At the end of the day, you just come back to the fact that this is a national disaster and the national government is responsible for handling it.

Gil Scott-Heron

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.

Jake Gyllenhaal

I liken movies to playing a piano: Sometimes you're playing the chords and different notes with unresolved cadences and playing all major chords that are all over the place, and you're enjoying yourself with a great, simple melody.