Famous Quotes & Sayings

Slash

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

Skitch Henderson

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Smokey Robinson

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Snoop Dogg

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

Snoop Dogg

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Socrates

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

John Milton

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

John Milton

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Noel Coward

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Noel Coward

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Gallagher

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

Noel Gallagher

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

Nina Simone

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Nina Simone

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Nina Simone

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Nina Simone

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Nina Simone

I only knew classical music, which to me was the only true music. The only way I could survive at the bar was to mix the classical music with popular songs, and that meant I had to sing. What happened was that I discovered I had a voice plus the talent to mix classical music together with more popular songs, which at the time I detested.

Nina Simone

Jazz is a white term to define black people. My music is black classical music.

Nina Simone

It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best.

Nina Simone

To most white people, jazz means black and jazz means dirt, and that's not what I play. I play black classical music.

Nina Simone

Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood," a song that was written for Simone, she confronted the band's lead singer, Eric Burdon. "So you're the honky," she said, "who stole my song and got a hit out of it?

Nina Simone

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

Nina Simone

Jazz is not just music, it's a way of life, it's a way of being, a way of thinking.

Nina Simone

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

Mike Tyson

I just want to try everything. I want to see how good I can be, the best I can be at what I'm doing. I want to do everything. You know? I want to be in a musical. I want to do everything. I want to try and sing.

Miguel de Cervantes

Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

John Waters

I don't like heroin, unless you're a jazz musician and then you have to be on it because jazz is the sound of heroin.

Ted Turner

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Thelonious Monk

I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.