Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Fripp

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Robert Fripp

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Robert Frost

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Robert Frost

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Richard Wagner

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

Richard Wagner

I know absolutely nothing about music.

Richard Wagner

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Rene Descartes

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Thomas de Quincey

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Rickie Lee Jones

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

I have to be a star like another man has to breathe.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

What have I got? No looks, no money, no education. Just talent.

T. S. Eliot

music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts.

T. S. Eliot

You are the music while the music lasts.

Suzi Quatro

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.

Simon Rattle

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Le Bon

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Reese Witherspoon

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

Tiny Tim

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

Tipper Gore

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.