Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Sherman

To master the piano is to master the universe.

Russell M. Nelson

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Stephen Chbosky

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

Stella Benson

The music paled like a candle and went out ...

Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'm saddest when I sing.

Thomas Hardy

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Tim Burton

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Thomas Beecham

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

Thomas Beecham

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

Thomas Beecham

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Thomas Beecham

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Thomas Beecham

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

Thomas Beecham

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

Thomas Beecham

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Victoria Legrand

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

Victor Hugo

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Borge

...the elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Victor Borge

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Victor Borge

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Victor Borge

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Victor Borge

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

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?

Victor Borge

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Susan Tedeschi

... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear...

Suzanne Collins

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Taylor Swift

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

Stephen Malkmus

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Stephanie Mills

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.