Famous Quotes & Sayings

Josh Klinghoffer

I always like to say that the music I'd like to make is somewhere between Pan Sonic and Scott Walker. But I don't sing anything like Scott Walker.

Dirk Benedict

Today I spend more time making music than I do writing.

Aimee Mann

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.

Charles Kingsley

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

Charles Kingsley

There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as divine, just as blessed.

Charles Kingsley

Music has been called the speech of the angels; I will go farther and call it the speech of God Himself.

Charles Cumming

St. John of the Cross points out that the divine music can best be heard in solitude and silence. The sonorous music is not a physical sound that vibrates the eardrum but something transcending the senses. Physical solitude and silence remove the distracting noises that prevent us from hearing on deeper levels.

Charles Darwin

I conclude that the musical notes and rhythms were first acquired by the male or female progenitors of mankind for the sake of charming the opposite sex.

Charles Darwin

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

Bobby Darin

It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times if you know how.

Billie Piper

I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.

Billie Holiday

The whole basis of my singing is feeling. Unless I feel something, I can't sing.

Billie Holiday

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do.

Billie Holiday

I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

Billie Holiday

You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling.

Billie Holiday

When you sing, always tell the truth.

Billie Holiday

I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.

Billie Joe Armstrong

That's the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. It's totally unpredictable.

Billie Joe Armstrong

Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.

Kenny G

I've been performing since I was in high school, so I've seen people react to my music and my playing. I'm always appreciative when people like the music, but I'm not shocked.

Kent Haruf

I enjoy bluegrass, folk, gospel, and classical. I don't listen to music when I write. I sometimes listen to music just before I sit down to write.

Joel Madden

Music is supposed to be an escape. It's supposed to be somewhere you go, where you can be yourself, or be whatever you want to be...

Donna Leon

I listen to Handel's vocal music, almost exclusively.

Tessanne Chin

I can put in Bob Marley's music now, and it's still relevant.

Twyla Tharp

What is music about? You can't listen to one era, one composer, and know what music is about.

Twyla Tharp

We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself.

Todd Rundgren

My father was not really into popular music; I had to learn about that for myself.

Charles Spurgeon

Music is at its best when it is pleasingly melancholic.

Benjamin Britten

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

Benjamin Britten

I am an arrogant and impatient listener, but in the case of a few composers, a very few, when I hear a work I do not like, I am convinced that it is my own fault. Verdi is one of those composers.

Benjamin Britten

The model of a composer.

Benjamin Disraeli

O Music! Miraculous art! A blast of thy trumpet and millions rush forward to die; a peal of thy organ and uncounted nations sink down to pray.

Benjamin Disraeli

Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead.