Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Bernard Shaw

Music is the brandy of the damned.

Gemma Chan

I ended up doing a local AmDram musical when I was nine or so. We had to sing and dance and act. It was probably terrible, but I loved it.

Gary Larson

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Eric Church

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Eric Clapton

... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ...

Eric Clapton

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.

Eric Clapton

... whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...

Eric Clapton

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Enya

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

Enrique Iglesias

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

Eminem

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Eminem

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Eminem

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Eminem

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Elvis Costello

Songs are more powerful than books.

Elvis Costello

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Jasper Carrott

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Andre Benjamin

But he says in music ?you start from scratch.

But I have to play the music. I can't play without seeing it.

Jimi Hendrix

But I always told him, 'When you start playing music you do something original.' He sure did, and I was really proud of him for doing that.

Harry Belafonte

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Guy Maddin

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Glenn Miller

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

Glenn Gould

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Glenn Gould

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Glenn Frey

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Gerry Mulligan

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.