Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rob Sheffield

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Rebecca West

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Rebecca West

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Roy Wood

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Rose Macaulay

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Ron Carter

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

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

Woody Herman

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

Woody Guthrie

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

Woody Allen

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

William Wordsworth

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

William Wordsworth

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

William Wordsworth

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

William Gilmore Simms

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Rich Robinson

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Reba McEntire

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Tupac Shakur

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'