Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Tony Levin

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Mary Timony

I feel really different from other musicians.

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Kenneth Rexroth

I've been around jazz and jazz musicians most of my life.

K'naan

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Miroslav Vitous

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.