Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Herb Alpert

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

David Friedman

I publish my own music. I'm creating my own songbook. It works that way for me; I'm very independent.

Jim Foglesong

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Jerry Hunt

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Lapo Elkann

I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

P. Herbert

Nothing is wasted, nothing is in vain: / The seas roll over but the rocks remain.

Lester Bangs

Or like in the early 70's when we had the reaction against acid rock and all the fuzz tone, and feedback, and the noise. And you had James Taylor and everyone went acoustic and that.

Joseph Campbell

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Karen Carpenter

We came out right in the middle of the hard-rock period... it was hard-rock everywhere! But we were ready to make our music, you know?And it was such a turn around, I guess it caught people by surprise.

Karen Bass

Its so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.

Juliette Lewis

Rock'n'roll to me is a rebellion against the sterile pedestal culture of movies.

Julie Kagawa

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

Julianne Hough

Well, what I love about '80s rock music is the amazing, fantastic melodies.

Juliana Hatfield

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

Ai Weiwei

You need a purpose to express yourself, but that expression is its own purpose.