Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olivia Newton-John

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Mark Ronson

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Raymond Kelly

I like music, a lot of different types of music.

We want to have enough services so that we can say yes to most people's musical interests.

Aberjhani

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

A. J. McLean

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. R. Rahman

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Robert Powell

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

Skrillex

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

Abbey Lincoln

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Abbey Lincoln

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Abbey Lincoln

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

Abbie Hoffman

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

Adrian Belew

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Action Bronson

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Abraham Cowley

Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.

Unless you're a musical team. If you're a musical team then that structurally works. But if you're two individuals it can be tricky.

Hailee Steinfeld

Music is a very big part of my preparation as an actor.

Kathleen Blanco

We have a lot of talent in Louisiana, ... For years, our musicians have had to go to Nashville or New York to record.,

Randy Bachman

I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.

Siouxsie Sioux

Pop music for me was definitely escapist, but never studious.

Paul Horn

Music is that universal language which unifies the spirits of mankind.

Phoebe Snow

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

Peter Shaffer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Heinrich Heine

The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle.

David Sanborn

Music is like an open sky. You know it's out there... and there you are.

While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.

Oliver Goldsmith

With other fashionable topics, such as pictures, taste, Shakespeare, and the musical glasses.

Matthew Ashford

With Jack, I was always trying to find the positive because they always wrote the negative. I didn't have to be menacing. The music did it for me.

When I think of music, I think of music in totality, complete.