Famous Quotes & Sayings

Glenn Gould

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Glenn Gould

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Glenn Frey

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Gerry Mulligan

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The music is in minors.

Gwen Stefani

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Greg Thomas

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Gregg Allman

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Gregory Bateson

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Gram Parsons

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

He's timeless. His music has been around for years.

I don't recall there being a lot music at home.

James Taylor

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

Bill Dixon

If musicians don't do any music, then there isn't any music. Musicians are very tricky and can be quite elusive.

Maia Mitchell

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.

Tom Wopat

I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.

Jamie Cullum

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Katie Johnson

I'm used to working with him. I know what to expect. It all transitions together so well, and the music is beautiful.

Conrad Sewell

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.

Johnny Marr

I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

David Archuleta

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

Mary Lambert

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

Nick Hornby

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Suzi Quatro

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

Josh Klinghoffer

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Aleksey Igudesman

Classical music is something that we're very passionate about, but we always thought it was presented in a stuffy way.

Stephen Marley

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.