Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's sort of off-putting without the music and the sound. We haven't synched it up yet.

Stephen Marley

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

Neil Young

The thing about my music is, there really is no point.

Jake Shimabukuro

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

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.

Mark Knopfler

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Mark Twain

I have learned that there lies dormant in the souls of all men a penchant for some particular musical instrument an an unsuspected yearning to play on it, which are bound to wake up an demand attention someday. Therefore you who rail at such that disturb your slumbers with unsuccessful and demoralizing attempts to subjugate a guitar, beware! For sooner or later your own time will come.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

John D. MacDonald

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

Lionel Hampton

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Rabindranath Tagore

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Ralph Ellison

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Lena Horne

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Thom Yorke

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Paul Desmond

Our basic audience begins with creaking elderly types of twenty-three and above.

Paul Desmond

I was unfashionable before anyone knew who I was.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Elvis Presley

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Joan Baez

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on the page.

Lou Rawls

Music is the greatest communication in the world.

Jimi Hendrix

... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child

Jimi Hendrix

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

John McLaughlin

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

Geddy Lee

Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Luciano Pavarotti

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Louis Armstrong

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

Lord Chesterfield

If you love music hear it; go to operas, concerts, and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist upon your neither piping nor fiddling yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light; brings him into a great deal of bad company; and takes up a great deal of time, which might be much better employed.