Famous Quotes & Sayings

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

B. B. King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

B. B. King

I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy...

B. B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

B. B. King

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

Hailee Steinfeld

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

Beck

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Lorin Maazel

We are doing a program this season of music by Schubert, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel, music which is totally -- on paper -- incompatible,

James McCartney

I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.

Jon Tester

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

Frank Zappa

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.

Rita Ora

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I think music is so important in somewhere like this.

Maya Angelou

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Marco Beltrami

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Ronnie Spector

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Hannah Ware

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

Howard Shore

When you're working on film music, you're only working on 20, 30-minute sections at a time.

Xavier Rudd

I feel my live shows are my music; everything blossoms from the live shows.

Terry Teachout

Only the tone-deaf doubt the power of music, though some feel it more strongly than others.

Tori Kelly

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

Tom Scholz

I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.

Rhys Ifans

I'm a real magpie when it comes to music; it's all random, and there's no pattern to what I like.

Joel Murray

I'm a little musically inclined; I play the clarinet and the saxophone.

I'm already pumped up. If I needed music to do that, I'd be in trouble.

CC Sabathia

I'm always online looking for new music and things like that.

Dustin Lynch

I'm a laid-back guy, but my brain is always wrapped up in music.

I have a recorder in my room, and when I record my voice, I'll be screaming in the microphone. And there's no other music anywhere, so people think I'm crazy, in my room just screaming.