Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 ...

Conrad Hall

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Conrad Aiken

Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.

Conrad Aiken

[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment.

Danny Strong

I have absolutely no musical talent of my own!

Danny Elfman

I would have to say I might do some stuff, but it's the film that's appealing. I was raised on film. My musical experience is all via film, it's not from classical music.

Daniel Ek

But right now we have an advantage of being the number one in music.

Daniel Day-Lewis

I'm not actually a big musical fan.

Daniel Dennett

How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant oboes and flutes over the massed strings will sound?

Don McLean

...And as the players tried to take the field, the Marching Band refused to yield...

Don McLean

People ask me if I left the lyrics open to ambiguity. Of course I did. I wanted to make a whole series of complex statements. The lyrics had to do with the state of society at the time.

Don Ellis

I expect the audience to come up to my level.

Don Ellis

To be a true artist you have to play the way you feel not the way others think you should feel.

Dylan Thomas

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

Doug Stanhope

Comedy is like music; it builds on itself. Once someone comes up with a theory or a different way of doing things, people start to mimic it on some level. That's why you go back to the guys you loved in the 80s... and it just seems tired now, because it was all foundation.

Douglas Adams

Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.

Donald Glover

I think the best music videos are the ones that have nothing to do with the song. Those are all my favorites.

Don Rickles

When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

Creed Bratton

I love music so much; I've always played.

Claude Debussy

Do not allow the accents in the brass to produce space between the notes.

Claude Debussy

He was the incomparable painter of mystery, silence, and the infinite, of the passing cloud, and the sunlit shimmer of the waves-subleties which none before him had been capable of suggesting.

Claude Debussy

If I am not making music, I have no reason for existing.

Claude Debussy

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to free it from barren traditions that stifle it. It is a free art gushing forth, an open-air art boundless as the elements, the wind, the sky, the sea. It must never be shut in and become an academic art.

Claude Levi-Strauss

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

Claude Levi-Strauss

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.

Dan Jenkins

Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas in their heads, knobs for eyes, jagged arms, and dangly legs conducted experiments on the bodies of dead vocalists.

Dan Jenkins

The maplewood flat-finished Martin had represented the most outrageous luxury in her life when she bought it in 1971 for four hundred dollars. But Lonnie Slocum assured her the Martin was a good investment, even if she never learned to play it better than an acid head who was into heavy metal.