Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kelis

My desire was never to put out albums; it was to do musical theatre!

John Keats

Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? / Think not of them, thou hast thy music too,

Nancy Farmer

Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I like to make films, but the only reason I do is because I'm a very bad musician.

Albert Einstein

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.

Alfred North Whitehead

Through and through the world is infested with quantity: To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large. . . . How large? It is no use saying the radium is scarce. . . . How scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

Alfred North Whitehead

From the very beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

For now the poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, Than tired eyelids upon tired eyes.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sweet is every sound, Sweeter thy voice, but every sound is sweet; Myriads of rivulets hurrying thro' the lawn, The moans of doves in immemorial elms, And murmuring of innumerable bees.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The song that nerves a nation's heart is in itself a deed.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The city is built To music, therefore never built at all, And therefore built forever.

Aldous Huxley

Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims.

Aldous Huxley

Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual.

Albert Einstein

Music has no effect on research work, but both are born of the same source and complement each other through the satisfaction they bestow

Adele

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze.

Adele

I don't make music for eyes. I make music for ears.

Ace Frehley

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.

Slash

We had a really vast music collection and I was raised around rock'n'roll, it's just the way it was.

Slash

I think that was the whole idea behind doing the solo record was to be able to do musically whatever I wanted to do.

Brandon Boyd

Music is the medium that has taken me around the world, and I would be lying if I said I could live without music.

I think we're in a very low point of music right now.

Tommy Mottola

It's really only all about music. It's not like a big rocket scientist kind of philosophy or anything.

Stuart Scott

You've got to be true to who you are and what you do. I'm more of a hip-hop feel person. Music is how you feel. The younger the mind, that's how I wanna be.

Sarah McLachlan

My music and my lyrics are essentially emotional postcards.

Avan Jogia

I had to learn a lot on 'Victorious' because I had never done multi-camera before. It's like music: You need to be on it, and there's no room for subtleties.

Becky G

I have fun when I'm making music, and I want people to have fun when they listen to it.

Tito Jackson

You have to feel that music. You just can't play it sterilely.

Toby Stephens

I blub all the time, in the most weird situations - not in the ones that should make me cry. Music makes me very emotional.

Tom Jenkinson

I'm into music for all different sorts of purposes.

Tom Jenkinson

Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing.