Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Marley

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Bob Marley

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.

Bill Wyman

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Bill Wyman

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

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.

Win Butler

Usually, I think you have most of your musical influences locked down by the time you're 16.

Alexandra Shipp

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

John Hughes

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

Leon Redbone

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

We're quite comfortable playing to anyone. Our music adapts to the situation.

Bertrand Russell

You could live without the opera singer, but not without the services of the baker. On this ground you might say that the baker performs a greater service; but no lover of music would agree.

Chad Smith

I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else.

Cecilia Bartoli

The joy is actually in the music. It's the music that supports you and tells you what to do. It tells you how to fill the music. You don't have to be shy about feeling the music when you're singing. If you believe in music-the power of music-the music will support you and take you to another dimension.

Cassandra Wilson

I'm always looking for ways to develop as a Jazz artist, to find different ways of using my voice.

Cassandra Wilson

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

Cassandra Wilson

I was never interested in singing in the church or school. I was more interested in becoming a musician.

Cassandra Wilson

Miles Davis was a master. In every phase of his career, he understood that this music was a tribute to the African muse.

Andre Previn

When you're working with music that is invariably better than you are, it's difficult to become swell-headed.

Agnes Obel

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

Agnes Repplier

What strange impulse is it which induces otherwise truthful people to say they like music when they do not, and thus expose themselves to hours of boredom?

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.