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.

B. B. King

We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

B. B. King

I did several shows with Jimi Hendrix, that's when I got to know him better, I knew of him, I met him [when he was playing] with Little Richard... And he was kind of quiet, shy, he didn't open up too much, but there were questions as we all ask each other. You know, "how do you do this" and "why do you do that..." We had very small discussions on things like that. And he was very polite, I thought [he was] a very nice guy...

B. B. King

A guitar is like an old friend that is there with me.

B. B. King

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.

Bill Cosby

Today's parents grew up with the silly notion that music was meant to be heard.

Cecil Taylor

I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.

Cecil Taylor

You must surrender whatever preconceptions you have about music if you're really interested in it.

Cecil Taylor

Improvisation is the ability to talk to oneself.

Cecil Taylor

Doesn't that fool know I recorded that song because I like it?

Carrie Underwood

Story book endings, fairytales coming true.

Carl Sagan

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

Arnold Schoenberg

Rests always sound well.

Arnold Schoenberg

Music is only understood when one goes away singing it and only loved when one falls asleep with it in one's head, and finds it still there on waking up the next morning.

Arnold Schoenberg

If it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Conrad Sewell

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Rick Moranis

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Miguel

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Daryl Hall

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

Bill Vaughan

There is no real coming and going, For what is going but coming?

Bill Hicks

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

That was what made the store unique. They would come in and we would have arguments about music and plenty of other things, like politics and other stuff.