Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ronnie Spector

Well, first of all, they're all about the music and all I care about in my professional career is the music.

Tis the little rift within the lute - That by and by will make the music mute, And, ever widening, slowly silence all

Marco Beltrami

When I think of Morricone, more than his using a specific instrument or a specific sound, it's his way of approaching music that sticks out.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Rita Ora

I think music will thrive where it wants to.

I think music is so important in somewhere like this.

Maya Angelou

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

Brian Eno

By the mid-'60s, recorded music was much more like painting than it was like traditional music. When you went into the studio, you could put a sound down, then you could squeeze it around, spread it all around the canvas.

A. R. Rahman

I am a friend when I need to be a friend, a father when I need to be a father, a musician when music calls. I switch roles accordingly.

A. R. Rahman

So long as you do it truthfully, music is not to be judged.

A. R. Rahman

Beautiful film music can be made relevant to any period.

Jo Stafford

When rock music came in, I wasn't bitter about it. I was puzzled.

John Cage

I needed another basis for musical structure. This I found in sound's duration parameter, sound's only parameter which is present even when no sound is intended.

John Cage

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

John Cage

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

John Cage

If this word "music" is sacred and reserved for eighteenth and nineteenth century instruments, we can substitute a more meaningful term: organization of sound.

John Cage

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

John Cage

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

John Cage

We are living in a period in which many people have changed their mind about what the use of music is or could be for them. Something that doesn't speak or talk like a human being, that doesn't know its definition in the dictionary or its theory in the schools, that expresses itself simply by the fact of its vibrations. People paying attention to vibratory activity, not in reaction to a fixed ideal performance, but each time attentively to how it happens to be this time, not necessarily two times the same. A music that transports the listener to the moment where he is.

John Cage

Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.

John Cage

Music is a means of rapid transportation.

John Cage

If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

With just one musician, you can really do an unlimited number of things on the inside of the piano, if you have at your disposal an exploded keyboard.

John Cage

A 'mistake' is beside the point, for once anything happens it authentically is.

John Cage

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

Matisyahu

The kind of music I'm trying to make is conscious, to make people think and feel and get inspired.

James Taylor

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come.

James Taylor

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

James Taylor

I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.

James M. Barrie

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Joe Perry

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.