Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gerry Mulligan

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The music is in minors.

Gwen Stefani

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Greg Thomas

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Gregg Allman

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Gregory Bateson

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Gram Parsons

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

He's timeless. His music has been around for years.

I don't recall there being a lot music at home.

James Taylor

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

Mandy Patinkin

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

James Vincent McMorrow

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

Ingmar Bergman

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Isabelle Huppert

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isadora Duncan

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Ira Gershwin

Love is sweeping the country.

Ira Gershwin

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Ira Gershwin

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Ira Gershwin

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Jack Nicholson

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Jack Kerouac

The only truth is music.

Jack Black

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Chico Buarque

Most people know my music but will never read my books.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Miguel

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Daryl Hall

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.