Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

Stevie Ray Vaughan

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

Steven Tyler

The blues are just a heightened sense of awareness of life's ups and downs, and things that a guy sees after a couple hits of Jack Daniels.

Robert Browning

There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music

Robert Browning

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Robbie Robertson

Music should never be harmless.

Robbie Robertson

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Robbie Williams

I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum.

Robbie Williams

I like listening to good music - and I can't stop playing my album.

Richard Steele

When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Sergei Prokofiev

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Mick Jagger

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Mick Jagger

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

Mick Jagger

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Sidney Lanier

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Sidney Lanier

Music is love in search of a word.

Seth Godin

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Ray Brown

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Ray Brown

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

Ray Charles

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Ray Charles

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Ray Charles

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me

Ray Charles

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Ray Charles

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Todd Rundgren

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Slash

... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..

Slash

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.