Famous Quotes & Sayings

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Cowper

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

William Cowper

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Van Cliburn

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Van Morrison

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Van Morrison

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Van Morrison

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Robert Pattinson

I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. I have been listening to them for years. I was obsessed with Van Morrison for years. I went to see him recently where he performed Astral Weeks. I just spent the entire night crying, but I was really obsessed with Van Morrison.

Robert Pattinson

I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ...

Robert Pattinson

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Robert Mayer

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Louis Stevenson

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

Wally Amos

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.

Walt Whitman

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Saul Bellow

I must play the instrument I've got.

Sarah Dessen

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Ronnie Wood

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ronnie Wood

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Ronnie Wood

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Ronnie Wood

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Roger Scruton

Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.

Roger Waters

For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

Rod Stewart

I don't enjoy songwriting.

Rod Stewart

You can keep your Streisands.