Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Marvell

Music, the mosaic of the air.

Alistair Cooke

Canned music is like audible wallpaper.

Allan Bloom

Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.

Andrea Bocelli

The themes I sing about tend to be centered on love, but in the most total, general way 360 degrees of love.

Andrea Bocelli

Even in the most beautiful music, there are some silences, which are there so we can witness the importance of silence. Silence is more important than ever, as life today is full of noise. We speak a lot about environmental pollution but not enough about noise pollution.

Amy Winehouse

I would love to study guitar or trumpet.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

Rafael Nadal

Every year I go to Broadway to see a musical - I like the music. I saw 'Mamma Mia;' I saw 'Les Miserables;' I saw 'Phantom of the Opera' like six, seven times.

Hans Zimmer

Wings of a Film: The Music of Hans Zimmer.

Marco Beltrami

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Evelyn Glennie

What I have to do as a musician is do everything that is not on the music.

We talk about music and how we got involved.

Today in the music industry, it's all strictly business.

Elton John

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elizabeth Peyton

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Eric Whitacre

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Carly Rae Jepsen

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

Khloe Kardashian

The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

Judith Hill

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Jimmy Cliff

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

John Hughes

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

Lydia Lunch

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

Ludacris

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

Jane Austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

James Young

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

James Young

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.