Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Wordsworth

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

William Gilmore Simms

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Sarah Silverman

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sara Bareilles

Music is catharsis for me.

Samuel Pepys

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Rich Robinson

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Reba McEntire

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Reba McEntire

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats -- all of it.

Ritchie Blackmore

... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful...

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Tupac Shakur

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

Tupac Shakur

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Trey Anastasio

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Anastasio

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

Tori Amos

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

Tori Amos

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

Tori Amos

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Valerie June

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Robin Williams

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robert W. Service

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.