Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Gioachino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Gioachino Rossini

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

J. K. Rowling

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

J. K. Rowling

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Itzhak Perlman

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

Itzhak Perlman

... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..

H. L. Mencken

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

H. L. Mencken

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H. L. Mencken

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

H. L. Mencken

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

H. L. Mencken

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

H. L. Mencken

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

H. L. Mencken

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Guillaume Canet

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

J. Reuben Clark

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

Danger Mouse

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

Jim Diamond

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I can usually see a glint in them if they are really passionate about music and guitar.

Katharine McPhee

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

George Harrison

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

John Hughes

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Tim Bajarin

I don't see it as a threat at all to Apple's music empire.

Jamie Blackley

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Jane Lindskold

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

John Oates

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

Jason Molina

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.