Famous Quotes & Sayings

Anne Lamott

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Ann Wilson

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Alban Berg

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Cilla Black

Work is a four-letter word.

Chuck Mangione

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

Chuck Mangione

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

Alfred Hitchcock

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alexis Korner

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

Andrew Hill

These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.

Andrew Hill

I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.

Andrew Hill

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

Andrew Hill

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Allison Pearson

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Anthony Braxton

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

Anthony Braxton

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Andy Rooney

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

Anais Nin

Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine.

Anais Nin

jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force.

Anais Nin

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

Anais Nin

In music I feel most deeply the passing of things.

Amanda Peet

I would do a musical, but I can't sing.

With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

Beck

I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

Beck

Being able to take musical ideas through every iteration is attractive to me. Granted, not everyone's going to want to listen to that, but it should exist.

Lorin Maazel

We are doing a program this season of music by Schubert, Schoenberg, Rachmaninoff, and Ravel, music which is totally -- on paper -- incompatible,

Ronnie Spector

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all

Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Robert Fripp

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.