Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Bragg

Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,

Johnny Rivers

Performing live, that's the ultimate thing. That's where it starts and that's where it ends. It's all about playing music.

Stephen Hopkins

There will be plenty of time for music later, but I will never be able to get these two weeks back,

The savviest retailers will look for a way to work with music suppliers . . . to make technology part of their business.

Austin Butler

I've played guitar and piano for a while, so it's really fun to play music on film.

Adam Hicks

I spend a lot of time on my music.

I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.

Mickey Sumner

I sometimes listen to music to get into some place that I need to get. I don't think it's because I have a musician as a father that I do this - most actors do.

Andrew Wyatt

I've been studying on my own. I'm not really trained. I went to school for about a year and a half. I never really studied music, but, I mean, I did. I studied for two years, maybe.

Jeff Tweedy

I've been buying instruments and musical gear for a long time.

Jeff Bridges

I've been interested in music since I was a teenager, always writing songs.

Dionne Bromfield

I used to like the Jonas Brothers, but only because I thought that they were good-looking, not because I actually liked their music.

Robbie Robertson

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list.

Juice Newton

The very fact that I've had those established me to continue on to do new music and new projects.

John Elkington

This is a tremendous area. Is there a musical heritage?

Chris Robinson

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

Bob Ezrin

That's just as important when you talk about a musical culture. From our point of view as long as music is rising in that region, there's hope.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Aimee Mann

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Ludacris

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

Jane Austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Jascha Heifetz

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Anthony Trollope

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.