Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Witten

But the beauty of Einstein's equations, for example, is just as real to anyone who's experienced it as the beauty of music. We've learned in the 20th century that the equations that work have inner harmony.

Dick York

You'd go in, read the script once for timing and then you would sit around and play games. The sound effects people would come in and we would do a dress rehearsal so they could get the effects and the music cues in place. Then you would wait until you went on the air.

Ahmad Jamal

Jazz Improvisation means that practice is not as straightforward as it would be when you simply have a score to play.

Ahmad Jamal

The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Ahmad Jamal

Many fail to realize this great recording industry was built by so-called jazz artists. And at the other end of the spectrum, a base in European classical music as well.

Ahmad Jamal

I would like to be a scholar in whatever I do, a scholar is never finished, he is always seeking and I am always seeking.

Aaron Carter

Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.

Aaron Copland

When I speak of the gifted listener, I am thinking of the nonmusician primarily, of the listener who intends to retain his amateur status. It is the thought of just such a listener that excites the composer in me.

Aaron Copland

There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it. We are led on and on, and yet in some strange way we never lose control.

Aaron Copland

Is there a meaning to music? Yes. Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? No.

Aaron Copland

So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

Aaron Copland

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No."

Aaron Copland

To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.

Rita Moreno

When was the last time you saw a musical about people at war with each other?

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Bill Wyman

So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.

Max Beerbohm

She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''

David Byrne

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

David Byrne

Music has to be sort of ignorable sometimes.

David Byrne

Before recording technology existed, you could not separate music from its social context.

Brittany Howard

To me, if you're a musician, then you're interested in music, and if you're interested in music, then you should listen to a lot of different types.

Brendan Fletcher

I started out doing music videos and photography, and I always loved writing.

Brendon Urie

I really like musicals - 'The Music Man,' 'Oklahoma!,' 'Li'l Abner,' 'Annie Get Your Gun.'

Becky G

My grandparents don't really listen to pop music, and they only speak Spanish and only listen to Spanish music.

Boy George

I'm much more interested in working and getting on with my music.

Big Sean

I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music.

Chris Robinson

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Chris Robinson

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Chris Robinson

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

Christo

If some of our works are symphonies, then wrapped walkways was chamber music.

Dave Grohl

No, there's something about the sing-song cadence of children's music that has its place in rock.