Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Hicks

Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.

Miguel

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Daryl Hall

I think there are people who really always have and always will care about the quality of music in general, about the sound of the music, things like that.

Ironically, we live in times that are awash in authentic sacred music.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

That baby's voice is music to my ears.

Gareth Gates

My speech is really important to me, but the thing is at the moment it can't be more important than my singing. Until I'm an established name all over the world, my speech won't be more important than my music.

Matisyahu

My music is really about people connecting with their identities, even if they aren't Jewish.

Michael Franti

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people.

James McCartney

I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.

Jon Tester

I think if you're going to get anything done in the Senate, you have to be on the same sheet of music. If you don't get people on the same sheet of music it comes out pretty horrible.

I still maintain several different outlets of artistry, like my music, photography, writing and all those things. I don't pigeonhole myself into one thing. I do all sorts of things, and that's so important to me.

Frank Zappa

I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa.

Kacey Musgraves

I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

Jenny Lewis

I write music, really, to make myself feel better.

Lord Byron

Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me.

I went into musical theatre, which I'm not really cut out for - I'm not as skilled at it as other people.

Martina McBride

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate.

Conrad Sewell

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

Joe Thomas

I was a little nervous at first. I never played reggae music in my life.

Rick Moranis

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.'

I want to write my own music, and I want to tour.

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Bob Hope

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Bjork

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Bill Frisell

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Bill Frisell

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Bill Frisell

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Betty Carter

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

Bob Weir

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

Charlotte Rampling

The process of filmmaking is very musical, you get into the rhythm and the rhythmics of how someone is, especially with Woody Allen who is very much into body language and body movement.

Carl Jung

Music is the application of sounds to the canvas of silence.