Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Van Ronk

There is an apprenticeship system in jazz. You teach the young ones. So even if the musicians weren't personally that likable, they felt an obligation to help the younger musicians.

Dave Grohl

It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Dave Grohl

If it weren't for the Beatles, I would not be a musician.

David O. McKay

Music is truly the universal language, and when it is excellently expressed how deeply it moves our souls

Danger Mouse

The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions.

Coleman Hawkins

You can separate the men from the boys and ballads.

Coleman Hawkins

I made the tenor sax - there's nobody plays like me and I don't play like anybody else

Coleman Hawkins

Music should always be an adventure.

Colbie Caillat

A great song should lift your heart, warm the soul and make you feel good.

Clemence Poesy

My references, my musical tastes, everything that I like, in fact, comes from the '70s.

Cornel West

Music is what we need when language fails us, but we cannot remain silent.

Cliff Martinez

Composers are in some ways the last frontier of musician that gets a paycheck for their musical services.

Dave Brubeck

Don't be a perfectionist... leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

Kinship doesn't come from skin color. It's in your soul and your mind.

Dave Brubeck

Jazz is about the only form of art existing today in which there is freedom of the individual without the loss of group contact.

Dave Brubeck

Damn it, when I'm bombastic, I have my reasons. I want to be bombastic-take it or leave it.

Dave Brubeck

There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

Darren Criss

As a musician, I hear the harmonic value of everything - I just enjoy music.

Confucius

Be aroused by poetry; structure yourself with propriety, refine yourself with music.

Confucius

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Confucius

When music and courtesy are better understood and appreciated, there will be no war.

Confucius

If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

Dalton Trumbo

An animal can learn to fight, but to sing beautiful things and make people believe them....

Cy Coleman

To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

Cyndi Lauper

Music, in its higher state, for me, is worth living and dying for. It's worth traipsing around the globe, it's worth the accolades and the other side of the accolades...I always have sung to the angels and the higher parts of people's souls.

David Byrne

The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

David Byrne

The wage for most musicians is a modest amount, and that includes me some of the time.

David Byrne

Maybe it's naïve, but I would love to believe that once you grow to love some aspect of a culture-its music, for instance -you can never again think of the people of that culture as less than yourself. I would like to believe that if I am deeply moved by a song originating from some place other than my own homeland, then I have in some way shared an experience with the people of that culture. I have been pleasantly contaminated. I can identify in some small way with it and its people.

David Byrne

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

David Byrne

With music, you often don't have to translate it. It just affects you, and you don't know why.

Darryl F. Zanuck

Slap some keys on her and we'll have a piano.

Dave Matthews

I'm a fairly tormented artist, and I'm less willing to indulge myself in self-pity, outside of songwriting.

Dave Matthews

Good music is good music, and everything else can go to hell.