Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tori Kelly

One of the most important things to me as a songwriter is to make music that's young and fresh but also soulful and real. I want people to feel like they know me once they listen to my songs.

Phoebe Snow

I would like to do something autobiographical, set to music. I don't know how I'm going to do it, but I'm going to try.

Peter Shaffer

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

Randy Houser

I've been playing music for over 20 years now. I started playing when I was 14 years old. To everyone who has said I was an overnight success... where have you been the last 20 years?

Ricky Martin

You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.

Maximilian Schell

Music in this film is a very important part.

Marsha Norman

Think of a musical as a string of pearls. If you don't have a string, you can't put the pearls around your neck.

Paul Eenhoorn

I've been writing music since I was a teenager. I play keyboards. I'm not much of a player, but I can write. That will come along. I'd like to do a musical.

Patty Loveless

I started to perform when I was 12... I don't talk too much. I let the music do the talking.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

Rachel Cusk

The true self seeks release, not constraint. It doesn't want to be corseted in a sonnet or made to learn a system of musical notations. It wants liberation, which is why very often it fastens on the novel, for the novel seems spacious, undefined, free.

Mark Ronson

I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.

Ronnie Spector

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all

Someone who knows only music, understands nothing about it.

Hannah Ware

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

That baby's voice is music to my ears.

Gareth Gates

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

Matisyahu

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Michael Franti

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Anne McCaffrey

Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

Anne McCaffrey

Of course, an exhausting day at sail lines and nets left little energy to expend on running or laughing. Perhaps that was why her parents couldn't appreciate her music-it wouldn't appear to be hard work to them. Menolly shook her hands, letting them flap from her wrists. They ached and trembled from the constricted movements and tension of an hour of intensive playing. No, her parents would never understand that playing musical instruments could be as hard work as sailing or fishing.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

A note of music gains significance from the silence on either side.

Anne Lamott

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food.

Ann Wilson

Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.

Alban Berg

I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.

Albert Camus

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

America Ferrera

I just wanted to see every single musical I could. The very first one I saw was 'Beauty and the Beast,' the only one I could get tickets for, and then 'Les Miserables' and then 'Chicago.

Daniel Keyes

Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan

D. H. Lawrence

Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me; Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see A child sitting under the piano, in the boom of the tingling strings And pressing the small, poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.

D. H. Lawrence

... The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance ...