Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Young

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Jascha Heifetz

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

Jascha Heifetz

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Janis Joplin

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Janis Joplin

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janina Gavankar

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Lorde

I'd refer to myself as a feminist. I don't think my music is overtly rooted in feminism. I'm a teenager, and 95 percent of my friends are boys, and that's just the way I've always been.

Michael Sheen

When I'm in America, I like to be near the sea, listen to music, watch films, read and write.

Thomas Bangalter

Music was a vector that we wanted to build a universe around.

Taylor Lautner

One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.

Talib Kweli

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Tove Lo

I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Brian Eno

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Bobby Robson

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.

Bob Dylan

..When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail

Bob Dylan

...you could listen to Woody Guthrie songs and actually learn how to live ...

Bob Dylan

We're constantly being bombarded by insulting and humiliating music, which people are making for you the way they make those Wonder Bread products. Just as food can be bad for your system, music can be bad for your spiritual and emotional feelings. It might taste good or clever, but in the long run, it's not going to do anything for you.

Bob Dylan

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

Bob Dylan

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Bob Dylan

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.

Bob Dylan

Folk music is a bunch of fat people.

Bob Dylan

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.

Bob Dylan

... When it came time to hire a guitar player ... I didn't even have to think about it ... Mike Bloomfield was the best guitar player I'd ever heard...

Bob Dylan

And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.

Bob Dylan

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.