Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louis Sachar

I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence.

There are some complicated rhythms. I've had to slowly work through it and subdivide the music and do it over and over to make sure that when I get it up to tempo it actually sounds right.

James Levine

Where my tastes in music are concerned, I'm a real maximalist.

Yelawolf

Where I'm from is like 'Hustle & Flow' versus '8 Mile.' It's that really grimy, box-Chevy, dope-boy, working-class music.

William Shakespeare

In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die.

William Shakespeare

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

William Shakespeare

How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!

At times, I think, 'What would I rather be doing than music?' That's what you have to ask yourself, if you feel like you need to be somewhere else... But there's nothing else I want to do more than music. That's why I stay in the booth.

Mark Knopfler

The music just tends to be a vehicle for that poetry.

Nneka

I must be true to myself within my music or I would be a liar.

Norman Cook

I make music for the hips, not the head.

Gretchen Rubin

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

There was, like, a point where music was slow for me, like '09. I wasn't getting that much work.

Louis C. K.

Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.

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.

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 !