Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Eckstine

You can't sing about love unless you know about it.

Billy Gibbons

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Billy Gibbons

Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up

Billy Gibbons

... a blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open...

Billy Gibbons

... I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it ...

Billy Gibbons

... Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un...

Billy Joel

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

Billy Joel

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

Billy Joel

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Billy Joel

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

Billy Joel

No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

Billy Joel

Like family, we are tied to each other. This is what all good musicians understand.

Billy Joel

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Edward Hoagland

No birdcall is the musical equal of a clarinet blown with panache.

Edith Wharton

An unalterable and unquestioned law of the musical world required that the German text of French operas sung by Swedish artists should be translated into Italian for the clearer understanding of English-speaking audiences.

Eddie Murphy

Stevie Wonder is a musical genius !

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Eddie Izzard

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Baroness Orczy

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

Edward Lear

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I find that I never lose Bach. I don't know why I have always loved him so. Except that he is so pure, so relentless and incorruptible, like a principle of geometry.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Without music I should wish to die.

Edgar Winter

I love music more just in and of itself. I love harmony and rhythm.

Edgar Winter

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.

Bobby McFerrin

I grew up in a time when being a musician and learning to be a musician was actually very wonderful.