Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eugene Mirman

It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

Frances Bean Cobain

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

The earth has music for those who listen.

George Santayana

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Chrissie Fit

For whatever reason, acting took the front seat but all of the projects that I've been doing seem to have some sort of musical element to them.

Chrissy Teigen

If my extensive collection of all 53 'Now That's What I Call Music' compilations is any indication, I am both qualified and honored to join Ludacris in hosting this amazing show that spotlights the best music and artists of the year, i had so much fun hosting the Billboard Music Awards last year and I can't wait to be back!

Chris O'Dowd

I come from a musical kind of family.

Chris Hillman

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

Faith Baldwin

the one universal form of art is music.

Fabiola Gianotti

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

George Szell

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George Szell

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

George Shearing

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

George Shearing

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

George Shearing

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

Jean Cocteau

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Jean Cocteau

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

George Carlin

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

Frank Sinatra

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Frank Sinatra

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Frank Sinatra

I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

Frank Sinatra

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

George Eliot

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

Henry Miller

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Henry Miller

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.