Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Hall

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Conrad Aiken

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Conrad Aiken

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Danny Strong

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Danny Elfman

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Daniel Ek

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Daniel Dennett

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

Dave Brubeck

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Dave Brubeck

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Darren Criss

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Confucius

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Confucius

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Andre Previn

The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played.

Ambrose Bierce

PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience.

Ambrose Bierce

PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo."

Ambrose Bierce

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

Ambrose Bierce

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure.

Anthony Hopkins

I wanted to be a musician but I didn't have the talent for it, so I decided I wanted to be famous, so I became an actor.

Alicia Witt

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Alicia Keys

When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.

Alicia Keys

But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.

Alice Smith

From out the peaceful hollow of its throat / such music pours as I am unaware / how to devise. I did not think these things. / It is the reed that sings.

Alice Walker

Only dead people need loud music, you know.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Anne McCaffrey

Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

Anne McCaffrey

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music-it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.