Famous Quotes & Sayings

Zakk Wylde

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

Yusef Lateef

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Twyla Tharp

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Twyla Tharp

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Warren Zevon

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Waylon Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

Voltaire

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Voltaire

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

William C. Bryant

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

William Butler Yeats

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

Will Allison

For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.

Walter Savage Landor

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

Yngwie Malmsteen

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Yngwie Malmsteen

... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs ...

Yo-Yo Ma

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Yogi Berra

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Rick Wright

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

Trent Reznor

I think, fundamentally, music is something inherently people love and need and relate to, and a lot of what's out right now feels like McDonalds. It's quick-fix. You kind of have a stomachache afterwards.

Toots Thielemans

Jazz is very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians playing Jazz music.

Toru Takemitsu

Although I am basically self taught, I consider Debussy my teacher - the most important elements are colour, light and shadow.

Steve Vai

If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.

Steve Vai

... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

Steve Vai

... there is still a very strong subculture of people who want to do great things on an instrument, and who are stimulated by hearing people who can. That's reassuring. But it's gonna take a person - and I don't know who this is - to come along and reinvent the guitar as a virtuosic instrument in a completely different realm than any of us have done, or anybody else in the past. That's the clincher. Maybe that will happen and maybe it won't ...

Steve Vai

So that's the challenge for me and that has always been the challenge - finding that melody, that riff, that thing that just lights me up and makes me feel like it's Christmas.

Vince Gill

... even when I'm touring, I feel like a sideman ... everybody's working together. We get to play longer solos; it's not just "Here's the record! Thank you for coming Goodnight" ... it has always had a "band" feel instead of being a singer and his backup band...

Vince Gill

The devaluation of music and what it's now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs 99 cents. That's what a single cost in 1960. On my phone, I can get an app for 99 cents that makes fart noises - the same price as the thing I create and speak to the world with. Some would say the fart app is more important. It's an awkward time. Creative brains are being sorely mistreated.

Vikram Seth

Good music is good music, but it has to be good.