Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I have found in every word a certain musical value, a melody in every thought, harmony in every feeling, and I have tried to interpret the same things with clear and simple words to those who used to listen to my music.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

I gave up my music because I had received from it all I had to receive. To serve God one must sacrifice the dearest thing, and I sacrificed my music, the dearest thing to me.

Henry Garza

...A lot of guitar players get stuck on a person ... before they find out who they really are ... every guitar player should remember be yourself - just let it rip ...

Henry Bromell

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

Hector Berlioz

The trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments... it has all the serious and powerful tones of sublime musical poetry, from religious, calm and imposing accents to savage, orgiastic outburst.

Hector Berlioz

Heine commenting on the music of Louis Hector Berlioz: He is an immense nightingale, a lark as great as an eagle. . . . The music causes me to dream of fabulous empires, filled with fabulous sins.

Hector Berlioz

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love

Hector Berlioz

Which of the two powers, Love or Music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? ... It is a problem, and yet it seems to me that this is the answer: 'Love can give no idea of music; music can give an idea of love.' ... Why separate them? They are two wings of the soul.

Heber J. Grant

The singing of the songs of Zion, though imperfectly, with the inspiration of God, will touch the hearts of the honest more effectively than if sung well without the Spirit of God.

Heber J. Grant

The singing of our sacred hymns, written by the servants of God, has a powerful effect in converting people to the principles of the Gospel, and in promoting peace and spiritual growth.

Henry David Thoreau

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry David Thoreau

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable.

Henry David Thoreau

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

Henry David Thoreau

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau

Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.

Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Malcolm Mclaren

I think if it doesn't do what I say, if it doesn't do what I want, if it isn't politically subversive, if it isn't sexy, if it isn't stylish to make all that happen then it isn't truthfully worth listening to.

John A. Logan

Music's the medicine of the mind.

John Abercrombie

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Laurence Sterne

In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

Larry Gelbart

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

Lester Bowie

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

Gary Cherone

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

George Gershwin

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

George Gershwin

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Foreman

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Jon Anderson

One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

Jon Bon Jovi

Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me

John Zorn

I run around, I listen to a lot of music, go to a lot of concerts. And when I see someone that gases me, I try to go out of my way to involve them somehow in what I'm doing or get involved in what they're doing.

Johnny Cash

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.