Famous Quotes & Sayings

Diane Ackerman

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Bob Dylan

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Bonnie Raitt

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Artie Shaw

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Bruce Beresford

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Brian Martin

... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory...

Thomas Bangalter

Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

Eddie Van Halen

I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

Eddie Van Halen

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Eddie Van Halen

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

Dizzy Gillespie

It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

Rachel Platten

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

Brian Eno

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

A. R. Rahman

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

A. R. Rahman

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

A. R. Rahman

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

Even though many see popular music as a for-profit venture, it remains a nonprofit venture for us,

Adam Jones

If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.

Adam Jones

I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

Al Jarreau

It's always been about making music. I've never gotten caught up with the trappings. You can't get caught up in the limousines and the chicks. The most important thing is the music.

Adam Lambert

I try not to get trapped in any one musical or visual style at all.

Adam Lambert

It's been a transformative period and I really wanted to make music from what I've experienced.

Brian Eno

When I started working on ambient music, my idea was to make music that was more like painting.

Benny Blanco

I let the song come to me. Then that thing comes to you, and you just know what that thing is. Music isn't like a 9-to-5 job. You never know. It's just the most unpredictable thing.