Famous Quotes & Sayings

Arnold Schoenberg

Rests always sound well.

Arnold Schoenberg

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Arnold Schoenberg

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Bill Vaughan

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

Bill Hicks

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

That was what made the store unique. They would come in and we would have arguments about music and plenty of other things, like politics and other stuff.

Randy Houser

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Ricky Martin

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

Maximilian Schell

Music in this film is a very important part.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Paul Eenhoorn

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Patty Loveless

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Mark Ronson

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Raymond Kelly

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Randy Bachman

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.

Siouxsie Sioux

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Paul Horn

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

Phoebe Snow

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

Peter Shaffer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Grimes

Most of my music videos were made for under $200.

Alex Winston

Most of all I want to make pop music that has something real behind it.

Jamie Foxx

Will.i.am and I performed at Wango Tango. That's when my daughter said that I had made it in music.

Abigail Washburn

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Hans Zimmer

Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer.

Kacey Musgraves

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Jenny Lewis

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there