Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Townshend

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Pete Townshend

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Pete Seeger

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

Pete Seeger

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Pete Doherty

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Pete Doherty

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

Pete Doherty

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

Pete Doherty

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

Quincy Jones

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Quincy Jones

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Quincy Jones

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Prince

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Prince

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Plutarch

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Mickey Hart

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Mickey Hart

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Pearl S. Buck

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Terri Windling

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

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.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.