Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rita Ora

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I think music is so important in somewhere like this.

Maya Angelou

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Kacey Musgraves

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Jenny Lewis

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Abigail Washburn

You can enjoy many different types of music. I think that's something more Americans should think about.

Hans Zimmer

Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer.

Marco Beltrami

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Jay-Z

Hip-hop has done so much for racial relations, and I don't think it's given the proper credit. It has changed America immensely. I'm going to make a very bold statement: Hip-hop has done more than any leader, politician, or anyone to improve race relations.

Jay McShann

They said Bird played bebop, but Bird could still swing. I've heard a lot of guys play bebop, but they wasn't swinging.

Carlisle Floyd

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Bruno Mars

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Jarvis Cocker

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Jaron Lanier

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Jane Lynch

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

Ethel Barrymore

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Erik Satie

We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

Erik Satie

Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.

Freddie Hubbard

When I got started in New York, if you were different from Miles & Dizzy it was very difficult.

Freddie Hubbard

They always want to sell me as a hard bopper.

Freddie Hubbard

[Lee Morgan] was the only young cat that scared me when he played. He had so much fire and natural feeling. I had more technique, but he had that feeling. People seemed to like him more than they like me at the beginning.

Freddie Hubbard

I used to try to play like [Miles Davis], and Miles caught me copying him one night at Birdland. He said, 'Hey man, why don't you play some of your own stuff.' So, I finally did, because I had copied all his solos.

Freddie Hubbard

Dizzy used to tell me I'm playing too hard. He'd say to not give everything. Miles told me that too.

Freddie Hubbard

Don't make the mistakes I made of not taking care of myself. Please, keeps your chops cool and don't overblow. If you are going to play hard, be sure to warm up. I'd get carried away trying to stay right with the momentum [of Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers]. I used to try and play like Coltrane and solo for 30 or 40 choruses. It all caught up with me.

Freddie Hubbard

Jazz isn't like pop, where you sell millions of records with a hit. Your spirit and soul aren't important in pop music. But jazz is like classical music. If people like you, they'll remember you and you'll last forever.

Frederic Chopin

Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

Frederic Chopin

Liszt commenting on the music of Frédéric Chopin: He confided . . . those inexpressible sorrows to which the pious give vent in their communication with their Maker. What they never say except upon their knees, he said in his palpitating compositions.

Frederic Chopin

To be a great composer requires immense experience... One acquires this by listening not only to other men's work, but above all to one's own!

Frederic Chopin

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.

Freddie Mercury

If I didn't do this well, I just wouldn't have anything to do... I can't cook, and I'd be a terrible housewife.

Freddie Mercury

The reason we're successful, darling? My overall charisma, of course.

Freddie Mercury

We're a very expensive group; we break a lot of rules. It's unheard of to combine opera with a rock theme, my dear .

Freddie Mercury

I'm just a musical prostitute, my dear.