Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boz Scaggs

I really just followed my musical instincts every step of my life.

Jamie Campbell Bower

I've been a musician longer than I've been an actor.

James Whistler

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

James Weldon Johnson

At a very early age I began to thump on the piano alone, and it was not long before I was able to pick out a few tunes? I also learned the names of the notes in both clefs, but I preferred not be hampered by notes.

James Weldon Johnson

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

James Weldon Johnson

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives it most distinctive characteristics.

Kendrick Lamar

I'm putting out this free music, constantly putting it out.

Kate Bush

I listen to very little music, particularly contemporary. If I listen to it, it's going to be my own music, some arrangement or something. I spend so much time listening that the way I relax is by watching things, a comedy; that's my way to wind down.

Kate Bush

Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

Gene Simmons

Music is feeling. You can try to verbalize it. It really just hits you or it doesn't.

Elton John

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elizabeth Peyton

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Eric Whitacre

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Carly Rae Jepsen

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

Bobby Darin

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Billie Piper

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Billie Holiday

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Billie Holiday

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Billie Holiday

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

Billie Holiday

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Kenny G

I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

Kent Haruf

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

Joel Madden

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be...

Donna Leon

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

Tessanne Chin

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

Twyla Tharp

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Todd Rundgren

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.