Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Wopat

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Tom Waits

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Steve Martin

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Steve Martin

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Stephen King

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Rumi

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Roy Haynes

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

Roy Haynes

You must own it to play it.

Roy Haynes

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

Sting

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

Sting

There's no religion but sex and music.

Sting

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Sonny Rollins

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

Sri Chinmoy

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

Thomas Beecham

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Victor Borge

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Stan Getz

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Steve Lacy

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Simon Cowell

I've always treated the music business as a business.

Stevie Wonder

Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.

Steven Morrissey

Madonna is closer to organised prostitution than anything else.

Sun Ra

What I'm dealing with is so vast and great that it can't be called the truth. It's above the truth.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Michael Stipe

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.