Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Norton

I like music, but I need to get outside more.

Adrian Belew

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

Adrian Grenier

I'm a self-taught musician, so I never really had the restrictions of any one instrument. I would always just sort of pick up instruments and make noise with 'em.

Adrian Grenier

Maybe the idea of being a rockstar or being the one who's recording or playing, sort of doesn't really matter as much anymore, when you're surrounded by great musicians who bring their spirit, their own talent.

Action Bronson

I come from a musical family as well as a culinary family.

Abraham Cowley

Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose, To th' active Moon a quick brisk stroke he gave, To Saturn's string a touch more sore and grave. The motions strait, and round, and swift, and slow, And short and long, were mixt and woven so, Did in such artful Figures smoothly fall, As made this decent measur'd dance of all. And this is Musick.

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

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

We want to have enough services so that we can say yes to most people's musical interests.

Aberjhani

Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World

A. J. McLean

I grew up in musical theatre and love to perform on stage.

A. R. Rahman

The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done.

Robert Powell

When I die, I want to be the only person in the world not to have seen 'The Sound Of Music.'

Skrillex

I don't do much press. I don't like to talk about my music too much before I do it.

Abbey Lincoln

I am the first instrument. I am the voice. I do not imitate other instruments. Other instruments imitate me.

Abbey Lincoln

I think that's what really a substantial work is, it's forever. It's the truth now and it was the truth then, and it will be the truth tomorrow.

Abbey Lincoln

I was in New York, miserable because I was working supper clubs but I wasn't expressing myself. I was really unhappy with my life. I saw Max Roach again and he told me I didn't have to do things like that. He made me an honest woman on the stage. I have been performing in that tradition since. I feel that I'm a serious performer now whereas then I wanted to be but I didn't know how.

Abbie Hoffman

If you don't have sex and you don't do drugs, your rock 'n' roll better be awfully good.

Well, I think the first piece of music I ever heard that I really loved was 'Salome's Dances' by Richard Strauss. I played that 12-inch, 78 record, and I stood up on an ottoman to play it on a big Victrola and I'd just keep playing it and playing it.

It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.

Vance Joy

I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.

Trey Parker

Like anything important, anything you need people to hear - you've got to have music for it. You've got to make it at least a little piece of a song or sometimes a whole song.