Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Santana

I can show you that I have played with just about every jazz musician, every African musician, every blues musician. It's not like I'm cashing in on a false concept. This is what I do.

Carlos Santana

All music is important if it comes from the heart.

Carlos Santana

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

Elton John

I am so in the past. I'm such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.

Elizabeth Peyton

There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Eric Whitacre

I write music that sounds complex but isn't. I frankly never think in terms of theory.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

When we're at the end of The Rite of Spring or of a Bruckner symphony, I want people to feel the music physically.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I can spend the day without writing or reading, but I can't spend a day without listening to music. I listen to music on a Walkman; it's from the 19th century, I know.

Carly Rae Jepsen

My music is bejewelled, it's colourful, it's romantic, it shines.

But nevertheless, it's music ultimately that matters in opera, and opera is a piece of music reaching out as a vision in sound reaching out to the world.

The way that I got involved with microtonal music was, frankly, through jazz.

Khloe Kardashian

The gym was my only refuge. I could put music on and dance around with my girlfriends and be silly.

Judith Hill

When I do uptempo songs, I like to bring in the funk and world music and different elements.

Jimmy Cliff

Someone like Katy Perry - I like her writing because I listen to music as a songwriter. I like a lot of her songs - like, 'Firework' is a song that I think I could write.

John Hughes

I'm from Chicago, I live in Chicago and I wanted very much for the music in Chicago to succeed.

Lydia Lunch

The problem with music was always that the sound system often obliterated the words, and words, not music, have always been what I was about.

Ludacris

I'm going to continue to keep music number one.

Jane Austen

Without music, life would be a blank to me.

James Young

And in an era where radio stations that are inclined to play Styx music are your classic rock stations and the stations that play current music look at us as dinosaurs - the only way we could reach people with our new music, generally, is to perform live.

James Young

And for REO - they get to play for some Styx fans and then we get to play in front of some REO fans. It helps spread the new music to the following of other bands.

James Young

So, maybe you don't see blues so much in Styx's music but it is definitely part of Tommy's early music.

James Young

So, it's a matter of that I want to take our music around the globe.

James Young

Seeing our VH-1 Behind the Music shows just how dysfunctional some of the moments of the band were but this new line-up has put the fun back in dysfunction.

James Young

People tell us they have been inspired by our music to do great things.

James Young

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

Jascha Heifetz

I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor.

Jascha Heifetz

If I don't practice one day, I know it; two days, the critics know it; three days, the public knows it.

Jason Aldean

Macon has such a rich musical history - and the state of Georgia, as well.

Janis Joplin

When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills.

Janis Joplin

Audiences like their blues singers to be miserable.

Janina Gavankar

I want to do a musical so bad. I don't care what it is. I'm not picky. I just want to do a musical. I'm shameless, but it's true.

Alanis Morissette

I started making music because I could.

Alanis Morissette

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?