Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bobby McFerrin

I have a lot of albums yet to do.

Bobby McFerrin

I use the audience as my color palette, my instrument.

Bobby McFerrin

To be a musician, you have to be honest... to be honest... to be honest.

Bobby McFerrin

The true musician is to bring light into people's hearts.

Belinda Carlisle

I had no musical training at all.

Barry White

There's people making babies to my music. That's nice.

Artur Schnabel

Great music is better than it can be performed.

Arturo Toscanini

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

Arturo Toscanini

After conducting a concert in a small town, I once received the following note from a farmer who had attended the performance: "Dear Sir, I wish to inform you that the man who played the long thing you pull in and out only did so during the brief periods you were looking at him."

Ariana Grande

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

Anthony Trollope

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Diana Ross

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

Diane Ackerman

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Demetri Martin

A musical is the same as a burlap sack, I would not want to be in either

Dan Aykroyd

James Brown opened at least six of our House of Blues clubs. He always delivered, but he demanded the respect of an emperor. But, come on, he's James Brown ! ... I got to play on stage with him. Did he ever fine me ? (Brown was known to fine players for flubbing notes or steps) - I would have loved to have been fined by James Brown !

Connie Smith

I love the music business very much.

Conor Maynard

YouTube is an amazing platform for young musicians - although its harder to get noticed now that everyone is on it.

Ashleigh Brilliant

I march to a different drummer, whose location, identity, and musical training haven't yet been established.

Arthur Honegger

The public doesn't want new music; the main thing it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

Arthur Honegger

Music is geometry in time.

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

The only way we can prevail through anything is to work on our music ... it got us here in the first place.

Terry Gilliam

The only time you get to see something interesting occasionally is music videos but even they've become boring, they seem more and more the same.

Jonathan Cain

We're a staple in the American music culture. Like us or not, we're here to stay.

Sydney Smith

If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.

Bruce Springsteen

We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters.

Bruce Springsteen

I was in my late 20s, in the process of shaping my musical outlook and what I wanted it to be about, when I first encountered Woody Guthrie.

Bruce Springsteen

All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it.

Bruce Springsteen

Some of the greatest blues music is some of the darkest music you've ever heard.

Bruce Springsteen

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Brian Setzer

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions