Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sonny Rollins

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Sonny Rollins

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

Sonny Rollins

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Sonny Rollins

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.

Sonny Rollins

I'm now a legend, whether I want to be or not.

Sonny Rollins

I feel that Jazz improvisation is the ultimate. You have to create on the spot, the essence of this music.

Sonny Rollins

I'm not supposed to be playing, the music is supposed to be playing me. I'm just supposed to be standing there with the horn, moving my fingers. The music is supposed to be coming through me; that's when it's really happening.

Sonny Rollins

Jazz is the type of music that can absorb so many things and still be jazz.

Sonny Rollins

The thing is this: When I play, what I try to do is to reach my subconscious level. I don't want to overtly think about anything, because you can't think and play at the same time - believe me, I've tried it (laughs).

Sonny Rollins

Music represents nature. Nature represents life. Jazz represents nature. Jazz is life.

Steve Jobs

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Steve Earle

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Steve Earle

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

Stephen Sondheim

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Sri Chinmoy

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

Sri Chinmoy

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

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.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Ringo Starr

I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

Richie Sambora

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Tim McGraw

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tom Stoppard

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

Tom Glazer

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Tina Weymouth

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Tina Weymouth

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Tina Weymouth

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Thurston Moore

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

S. J. Perelman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.