Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Ennio Morricone

Music is an experience, not a science.

Jimmy Page

Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

Arthur Phillips

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

Victoria Legrand

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Tommy Shaw

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Robert Moog

When I opened the T-burg shop, I thought I was going into the electronic kit business, ... Then I met a composer who wanted to make electronic music on tape. We got together just for fun.

Michael Feinstein

I hear the name Gershwin and I think of the most incredibly talented, prolific, extraordinary composer of the century, and his music is as fresh and vital today as it was when he originally created it.

Joshua Bell

In a way, the highest praise you could give to a composer like Bach was to take and make your own arrangement; it was sort of an homage to that composer and to his work, so it wasn't considered sacrilegious to do something like that.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Handel is the greatest composer that ever lived... I would uncover my head and kneel down on his tomb.

Brian Eno

With recording, everything changed. The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one's furniture. It's an idea that many composers have felt reluctant about because it seemed to them to diminish the importance of music.

Nobuo Uematsu

Like many composers, most of my compositions are influenced by the music I've listened to throughout my life.

Richard Rodgers

If a composer is to reach his audience emotionally - and surely that's what theatre music is all about - he must reach the people through sounds they can relate to.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

I feel very free and very happy to be a composer.

Jean Cocteau

Good music resembles something. It resembles the composer.