Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Brown

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Lena Horne

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Lenny Kravitz

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Lenny Kravitz

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

Laura Benanti

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

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.

Thom Yorke

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

Thom Yorke

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Lady Gaga

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Lady Gaga

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

Lady Gaga

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Lady Gaga

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Lady Gaga

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

Lady Gaga

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Lady Gaga

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

Lady Gaga

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Lady Gaga

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Levon Helm

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

Leonard Bernstein

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Leonard Bernstein

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

Josephine Baker

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Josh Billings

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Karl Kraus

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Lagerfeld

Music gives color to the air of the moment.

Ouida

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.