Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Mercer

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Johnny Marr

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

John Ruskin

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

John Ruskin

Not without design does God write the music of our lives.

John Ruskin

Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Mason Cooley

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

Mason Cooley

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

Marvin Minsky

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Martin Short

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

Michael Franti

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home

Michael Chiklis

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Michael Connelly

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Mencius

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.

Michel Legrand

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Martina McBride

Even if the sun refused to shine Even if romance ran out of rhyme You would still have my heart until the end of time You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Martina McBride

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

Oscar Wilde

Music is the perfect type of art.

Oscar Wilde

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Madonna Ciccone

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God

Madonna Ciccone

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Ma Rainey

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Ma Rainey

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Ma Rainey

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

Lydia Lunch

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Luke Wilson

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

Michael Jackson

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

Michael Jackson

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

Michael Winterbottom

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.