Famous Quotes & Sayings

Karrine Steffans

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Leonard Bernstein

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Leonard Bernstein

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Leonard Bernstein

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Leonard Bernstein

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leona Lewis

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Leonard Cohen

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

Lawrence Welk

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

Lawrence Welk

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Langston Hughes

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

John Keats

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

John Keats

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Lionel Hampton

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Lionel Hampton

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

Link Wray

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

Link Wray

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.

Linda Ronstadt

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

Linda Ronstadt

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Linda Ronstadt

...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway ...

Linda Ronstadt

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

Linda Ellerbee

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Lil Wayne

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Peter Gabriel

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

Peter Brook

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.