Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Kenton

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Stan Kenton

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Getz

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Stan Getz

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Stan Getz

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Stan Getz

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Stan Getz

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Stan Getz

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Stanley Jordan

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Stephen Stills

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Stephen Stills

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones...

Tablo

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Rosanne Cash

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Rosanne Cash

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

Rosanne Cash

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Rupert Holmes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Rumi

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Tom Petty

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

Tom Robbins

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Tom Felton

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

Toby Keith

... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab...

Toby Keith

... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

Toni Cade Bambara

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.