Quotes about music
music nice boys
It's important that Oasis are rude about everybody and that they get drunk...Fair enough. It's nice, isn't it? But it's nothing to do with me. They came to see us in Manchester and they were very pleasant boys. Very nice. I'd like to see that as a quote. Oasis are very nice boys. Damon Albarn
music growing-up growing
I liked The Beatles a lot when I was growing up. Damien Hirst
music cheating cat
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to the bar and no cheating. Count Basie
music feet listening
Keep on listening & tapping your feet. Count Basie
music night play
If you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night! Count Basie
music real just-being
The real innovators did their innovating by just being themselves. Count Basie
music play feet
If you play a tune and a person don't tap their feet, don't play the tune. Count Basie
music writing wine
Writing more and more to the sound of music, writing more and more like music. Sitting in my studio tonight, playing record after record, writing, music a stimulant of the highest order, far more potent than wine. Anais Nin
music self expression
jazz is the expression of America's romantic self, its sensual potency, its lyrical force. Anais Nin
music way infinite
notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite. Anais Nin
music passing feels
In music I feel most deeply the passing of things. Anais Nin
musical i-can
I would do a musical, but I can't sing. Amanda Peet
music beautiful ocean
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees. Andres Segovia
music guitar color
When I started to play with my fingernails, it was not just for volume. The most important thing was giving the guitar different colors in its voices... Andres Segovia
music art book
The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art. Chuck Palahniuk
musical band nine
Nine Inch Nails were the best and most popular industrial band of all time; as a consequence, industrial purists usually assert that Nine Inch Nails aren't an industrial band at all (this is a counterintuitive phenomenon that tends to occur with purists from all subcultures, musical or otherwise). Chuck Klosterman
music car people
I love the way music inside a car makes you feel invisible; if you plan the stereo at max volume, it's almost like the other people can't see into your vehicle. It tints your windows, somehow. Chuck Klosterman
music song nice
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes. Chuck Klosterman
music song ideas
I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas. Chuck Cannon
music art doe
Art does not explain. Chuck Cannon
musical music-is music-industry
Downloadable music is the biggest musical phenomenon since the Beatles, and the music industry is slow to come to grips with that. Chuck D.
musical comedy backgrounds
My background is in musical comedy. Christopher Walken
musical actors be-kind
My background is in musical comedy. I didn't know I was going to be an actor. But all my points of reference have to do with musical comedy and in being kind of a showoff. Christopher Walken
musical training theatre
Yeah, well I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre and that's really where my training is. As an actor, that's my training. Christopher Walken
musical different
Different musical instruments provide for different music. Amos Oz
music voice gigs
... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore Alvin Lee
musician doctrine orthodoxy
I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal. Anthony Davis
musical trying ears
I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound. Anne Stevenson
music differences important
The basic difference between classical music and jazz is that in the former the music is always graver than its performance - whereas the way jazz is performed is always more important than what is being played. Andre Previn
music-love i-love-music
I love music. I listen to a lot of it. Andy Murray
music piano keys
PIANO, n. A parlor utensil for subduing the impenitent visitor. It is operated by pressing the keys of the machine and the spirits of the audience. Ambrose Bierce
music body action
PRESIDE, v. To guide the action of a deliberative body to a desirable result. In Journalese, to perform upon a musical instrument; as, "He presided at the piccolo." Ambrose Bierce
musical assassins harmony
Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin. Ambrose Bierce