Famous Quotes & Sayings

Honore de Balzac

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

For the people who are going to purchase music online, the 79-, 88-, 99-cent price point doesn't make much difference.

Itzhak Perlman

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Itzhak Perlman

... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find ...

Itzhak Perlman

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Ishmael Reed

We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.

Irvine Welsh

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Igor Stravinsky

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Igor Stravinsky

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Idina Menzel

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.

Idina Menzel

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Izaak Walton

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Elton John

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elton John

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Elle Fanning

I would love to do a musical!

Ellen DeGeneres

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

Francis Quarles

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

Ian MacKaye

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Ian Brown

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

Horace Silver

They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

Horace Silver

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Horace Walpole

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Homer

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.