Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Conroy

Without music, life is a journey through a desert.

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.

Nathan East

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Kelsey Grammer

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Keith Moon

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

Keith Richards

... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel..

Keith Richards

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Keith Richards

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

Keith Richards

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

Keith Richards

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

Kris Jenner

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Kris Kristofferson

... Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore ...

Keren Ann

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

Mark Twain

We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency.

Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Marsha Norman

I feel that I speak the musical language.

Niklas Zennstrom

When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff.

Nick Hornby

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...

Nick Hornby

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Nick Hornby

What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

Mary Lou Williams

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Mark Twain

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Mark Twain

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Marian Keyes

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Neal A. Maxwell

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

Mari Evans

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must use time creatively.

Mark Knopfler

...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up...