Famous Quotes & Sayings

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Anastasio

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Tori Amos

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

Tori Amos

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Robin Williams

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robert Wyatt

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Robert Schumann

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Robert Schumann

Talent works, genius creates.

Sarah Vaughan

There are notes between notes, you know.

Sarah McLachlan

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sara Teasdale

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

Sara Teasdale

As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Will Smith

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Walter Bagehot

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

William Blake

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Wayne Shorter

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Wayne Shorter

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Wayne Shorter

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

Wayne Shorter

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

Wayne Shorter

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Wayne Shorter

Music is interior decoration.

Wayne Rooney

I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune.

Samuel Barber

He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed.

Sammy Cahn

The popular song is America's greatest ambassador.

Samuel L. Jackson

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.

Virginia Graham

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.