Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desiderius Erasmus

Modern church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word.

Enya

My influences are with Irish music, church music and classical music,

Wynton Marsalis

When I did the Abyssinian mass, I went through the whole history of the church music and the gospel music, even with the Anglo American hymns, the Afro American hymns, the spirituals and how it developed, up to Thomas Dorsey and the Dixie Hummingbirds, going through the history of the music, jazz musicians.

Arnold Schoenberg

My music is not modern, it is merely badly played

Martin Bouygues

My successor may need to be more modern than I am. It's a question of generations.

B. R. Ambedkar

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.

Dean Miller

I don't think people want chains. People want modern conveniences, but they don't want chains.

Jory Hancock

He is kind of a missionary of modern dance.

Barry Commoner

The modern technologist is less 'sorcerer' and more 'sorcerer's apprentice'.

Camille Paglia

How many modern transsexuals are unacknowledged shamans? Perhaps it is to poets they should go for counsel, rather than surgeons.

Aubrey McClendon

Modern life would not be possible if it were not for chemicals, nor would modern natural gas production.

Dan Stevens

I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.