Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

David Gray

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Barry Manilow

I've always wanted to marry Elton John.

C. S. Lewis

Continue seeking God with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.

Elizabeth Bowen

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

Bruce Boxleitner

I'm living what I always wanted to do.

Art Spiegelman

Some of the reviewers wanted less. Some wanted lots more. Some wanted lots more of something else. But these strips are exactly what they are.

Adam Sandler

I've always wanted to do a family movie.

David Gest

If I wanted to be famous, I could have been famous before.

David Bowie

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

Daphne Gottlieb

There is nothing going on. I took nothing you wanted. You can't have it back.