Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimi Hendrix

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Jim Morrison

Music inflames temperament.

Jim Morrison

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

Jim Morrison

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

John McLaughlin

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John Mellencamp

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

John Jay Chapman

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

John Hendricks

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

John Denver

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

John Denver

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

John Dewey

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

John Carpenter

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

John August

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Johan Huizinga

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Johan Huizinga

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

Jimmy Rushing

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.

Jimmy Webb

You certainly don't hear any country music on pop radio today. But for a while you did, and it was a lovely thing to have all the different genres of music cohabitating the Top 40 - the folk sound, The Beatles, the British sound, the Motown sounds, that kind of light country - it was a welcome relief after a few hard rock records. Everyone was sharing the airwaves, and I think it was a beautiful time for American music.

Garrison Keillor

The majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

Garrison Keillor

Second violins can play a concerto perfectly if they're in their own home and nobody's there.

Geezer Butler

I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in

Geddy Lee

Invisible airwaves crackle with life Bright antennae bristle with the energy Emotional feedback on a timeless wavelength Bearing a gift beyond price, almost free

Lynda Barry

gospel singing ... is the rawest, sweetest, uninhibited and exquisite sounds a person can make or hear. It isn't music, it's an entire experience you feel and live. A sound to rise you up again.

Luke Evans

It's quite clear if you look at the actors in film right now, some of them came from theater but they didn't come from musical theater. There's still a bit of a stigma attached to it I would say.

Luciano Berio

Music is everything that one listens to with the intention of listening to music.

Lucas Grabeel

I always wish life could be a musical. One person just says 5, 6, 7, 8.

Luciano Pavarotti

Music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

Louis Armstrong

Music is either good or bad, and it's got to be learned. You got to have balance.

Louis Armstrong

Not too slow, not too fast. Kind of like half-fast.

Louis Armstrong

If it hadn't been for Jazz, there wouldn't be no rock and roll.

Louis Armstrong

Never play a thing the same way twice.

Louis Armstrong

Never play anything the same way twice.