Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eddie Izzard

Poetry is very similar to music, only less notes and more words.

Eddie Izzard

It's not a bloody piano, it's a clarenARt...you weird talking person.

David Duchovny

I wouldn't succeed at musical theater.

Bebe Moore Campbell

The music was as much a gift as sunshine, as rain, as any blessing ever prayed for.

Baroness Orczy

music is the most absorbing of all the arts. It absorbs the mind of the artist, whether creator or executant, to the exclusion of every other consideration outside his own immediate necessities or desires.

Arthur Phillips

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

Arthur Rubinstein

I am tired before the concert, not afterward.

Arthur Rubinstein

You cannot play the piano well unless you are singing within you.

Arnold Bennett

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

Derek Bailey

Undeniably, the audience for improvisation, good or bad, active or passive, sympathetic or hostile, has a power that no other audience has. It can affect the creation of that which is being witnessed. And perhaps because of that possibility the audience for improvisation has a degree of intimacy with the music that is not achieved in any other situation.

Derek Bailey

Diversity is its most consistent characteristic....The characteristics of freely improvised music are established only by the sonic-musical identity of the person or persons playing it.

Derek Bailey

Free improvisation, in addition to being a highly skilled musical craft, is open to use by almost anyone-beginners, children, and non-musicians. The skill and intellect required is whatever is available. Its accessibility to the performer is, in fact, something which appears to offend both its supporters and detractors....And as regards method, the improvisor employs the oldest in music-making...Mankind's first musical performance couldn't have been anything other than a free improvisation.

Dido Armstrong

I feel really lucky to have found musical success before I'm 30, to be doing absolutely what I want to do. I would be quite happy if I died tomorrow.

Dick Dale

...I enjoyed it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) .. in fact I'm all out...

Dick Dale

I don't claim to be a musician, I didn't go to Julliard.

Diana Krall

I've sung a lot of emotional songs, but when you're writing it's very difficult to decide what to reveal.

Diana Krall

The greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out.

Diana Krall

I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.

Diana Krall

Love songs last because they are about feelings that don't change.

Diana Krall

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Edward Elgar

My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require.

Ed Westwick

I've always connected with music. Life's not always what you see; it's what going on in your head. Music is what comes out of your subconscious.

Ed Sheeran

I've never really been a confident person, except from a musical standpoint. I had to push myself early on, but it got easier with each gig.

Eberhard Weber

The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.

Eberhard Weber

I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

Earl Hines

You may have holes in your shoes, but don't let the people out front know it. Shine the tops.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Not only is music a beautiful and sublime science, the study of which ennobles and purifies the mind of its votary, but how many and excellent are its ministries to others!

Edward Lear

A vile beastly rottenheaded foolbegotten brazenthroated pernicous piggish screaming, tearing, roaring, perplexing, splitmecrackle crashmecriggle insane ass of a woman is practising howling below-stairs with a brute of a singingmaster so horribly, that my head is nearly off.

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.