Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Crosby

You tend to write as you get older about family love more than you write about romantic love or ooh baby. ... The stuff that you want to celebrate about humanity has always been there and probably always will be.

David Crosby

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

Dave Barry

The taxpayers cannot be relied upon to support performing arts such as opera. As a taxpayer, I am forced to admit that I would rather undergo a vasectomy via Weed Whacker than attend an opera.

Dave Barry

If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from the Beverly Hillbillies.

Dave Barry

I hate rap music, which to me sounds like a bunch of angry men shouting, possibly because the person who was supposed to provide them with a melody never showed up.

David Sanborn

Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized.

David Naughton

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Cab Calloway

Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.

Cab Calloway

Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.

Buddy Holly

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

Buddy Holly

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Buddy Rich

I never believed in a set routine. It should depend on how you feel, because you play what you feel.

Buddy Rich

As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.

Buddy Rich

A great musician is just a thief who doesn't get caught

Buddy Rich

You only get better by playing.

Buddy Guy

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Bryan White

Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

Bryan White

What is nice about country music today is that most artists are not trying to do something everybody else is doing. They really are trying to develop their own uniqueness.

Bryan Ferry

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Bryan Ferry

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.

Bryan Ferry

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Bryan Adams

You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

Bryan Adams

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

All the others arts are lonely. We paint alone--my picture, my interpretation of the sky. My poem, my novel. But in music--ensemble music, not soloism--we share. No altruism this, for we receive tenfold what we give.

Catherine Drinker Bowen

your concert-goer, though he feed upon symphony as a lamb upon milk, is no true lover if he play no instrument. Your true lover does more than admire the muse; he sweats a little in her service.

Carlos Santana

...some musicians, man, you hear the note almost before they hit it. Jimi, Coltrane and Charlie Parker were like that...

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Carlos Santana

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

Carlos Santana

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Bryan Batt

It's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

this song is for the guy who keeps yelling from the balcony, and it's called 'we hate you, please die.

Bryan Procter

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn, Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute, Are half so sweet as tender human words.

Casey Abrams

I have musical ADD, so I like to switch things up.