Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Kingsley

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.

Charles Kingsley

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Charles Cumming

St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.

Charles Darwin

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Charles Darwin

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Branford Marsalis

Jazz is so incestuous that it's starting to kill itself.

Branford Marsalis

So much of Jazz doesn't have an audience other than music students or musicians.

Branford Marsalis

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

Branford Marsalis

You don't know what you like, you like what you know. In order to know what you like, you have to know everything.

Branford Marsalis

Pop doesn't really look back. It can't. What makes pop work is simplicity.

Bonnie Tyler

Once upon a time I was falling in love, now I'm only falling apart.

Bonnie Raitt

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

Bonnie Raitt

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

Bonnie Raitt

There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

Bono

Pop music often tells you everything is OK, while rock music tells you that it's not OK, but you can change it.

Bono

If you pour your life into songs, you want them to be heard. It's a desire to communicate. A deep desire to communicate inspires songwriting.

Artie Shaw

I can't understand guys who just have to have your autograph. What do you do when you get home, take it out & look at it?

Artie Shaw

An artist should write for himself & not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away.

Artie Shaw

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself.

Artie Shaw

I like the music. I love it & live it in fact. But for me the business part of music just plain stinks.

Artie Shaw

I did all you can do with a clarinet. Any more would have been less.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The effect of music is so very much more powerful and penetrating than is that of the other arts, for these others speak only of the shadow, but music of the essence.

Brittany Howard

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

Brian Welch

I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

Music waves eternal wands,-- Enchantress of the souls of mortals!

Eckhart Tolle

Music creates a bridge for people to move out of thinking and into presence.

Elie Wiesel

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

E. W. Howe

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

Dwight Yoakam

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself. And so I make reference to and acknowledge things that I feel have been dismissed, trying to restate those musical and cultural elements clearly and vehemently

Coventry Patmore

How light the touches are that kiss the music from the chords of life!

Courtney Love

The American public really does have a death wish for me. They want me to die. I'm not going to die.