Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Jim Sullivan

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

Steven Hall

I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.

Kurt Cobain

I've never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Mandy Patinkin

Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

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.

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.

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.

Harrison Birtwistle

I'm not an architectural composer.

Anton Seidl

Composers are not all good conductors.

James Billington

We have something by every famous composer and a mother lode of American music.

Anne Dudley

I think the thing about being a film composer is that you have to be pretty eclectic-be able to turn your hand to all sorts of different styles and genres and be familiar with the latest rhythms and the range of an obscure instrument.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Boris Johnson

I'm a one-nation Tory.

Kofi Annan

the United Nations will do whatever we can to help.

Nicholas Burns

We welcome the United Nations in the United States. We want the U.N. to stay, and the U.N. is going to stay.

Lord Palmerston

Nations have no permanent friends or allies, they only have permanent interests.

Richard Bush

Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?