Famous Quotes & Sayings

Boethius

I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses tell me what I must write, and elegiac verses bathe my face with real tears. Not even terror could drive from me these faithful companions of my long journey. Poetry, which was once the glory of my happy and flourishing youth, is still my comfort in this misery of my old age.

Boethius

Music is so naturally united with us that we cannot be free from it - even if we so desired.

Bridget Regan

I just always wanted to be an actor. I don't remember ever not wanting to be an actor. I did a lot of musical theater when I was younger, and I really hope to get back there someday.

Brigham Young

Some wise being organized my system, and gave me my capacity, put into my heart and brain something that delights, charms, and fills me with rapture at the sound of sweet music.

Brigham Young

Sweet harmonious sounds give exquisite joy to human beings capable of appreciating music. I delight in hearing harmonious tones made by the human voice, by musical instruments, and by both combined.

Brigham Young

Every accomplishment, every refined talent, every useful attainment in mathematics, music, and in all sciences, and art belong to the Saints.

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

Billy Higgins

The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.

Billy Eckstine

If you want to be a musician, study your craft. Study music.

Billy Eckstine

I'm not much on gimmicks. I never have been because they don't last.