Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dave Matthews

...Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head...

Dave Matthews

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me.

Dave Eggers

Recently, I've discovered Radiohead and find them to be quite good. So clearly, I'm some kind of musical retard. (Jonathan Ames, Middle-American Gothic)

David Lindsay-Abaire

I dont want to work on a musical if Im not the lyricist.

David Lee Roth

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

Debbie Harry

Lately I've been believing that music predates speech.

Cilla Black

Work is a four-letter word.

Chuck Mangione

To do it always right, that is what music is to me.

Chuck Mangione

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

Chuck Mangione

I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

Alfred Hitchcock

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alexis Korner

Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.

It was clear from the beginning that I was going to be a musician.

Andrew Hill

These magic moments when rhythms and harmonies extend themselves and jell together and the people become another instrument. These things are priceless and they can't be learned; they can only be felt.

Andrew Hill

I finally realized that my relaxation is practicing the piano and writing. I've tried to do other things, but I've learned through the decades, that this is what I enjoy, practicing music and writing.

Andrew Hill

I was talented but crazy, semi-autistic and eccentric.

Andrew Hill

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

Amiri Baraka

Poetry is music, and nothing but music. Words with musical emphasis.

Allison Pearson

The best musicians answer something in you when you don't even know the question.

Anthony Braxton

...I have great hopes for the possibility of a dynamic universalism that respects all our people.

Anthony Braxton

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

Andy Rooney

The world must be filled with unsuccessful musical careers like mine, and it's probably a good thing. We don't need a lot of bad musicians filling the air with unnecessary sounds. Some of the professionals are bad enough.

Music is about textures as well as melody.

Location is a very important aspect to songwriting.

People don't have fun making music all the time.

The more I do in my life, the more I can write music about new experiences.

I was inspired to make music since I was 7 because my aunt is a songwriter.

I would say now we?re shooting toward putting the music out in a professional way.

Swae Lee

I write a lot of rhymes, but I don't really end up using them a lot of times, and I end up just freestyling. I like to write music, though, more than I like to freestyle, to be honest.

has got two revenue streams: one from our music and one from the sale of his iPods.

Graham Elliot

I played the guitar and thought that was what I was going to do as a career. I still record music that is played in my restaurants.

Tony Oller

Being from Texas, acting or music isn't really a thing to do.

Steve Earle

Music was very influential on me as a kid.