Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rachel Platten

Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

Paul Walker

There's sequences where I'm just like 'man it's like a music video, you could just play some music and you could get into it,'

There's so much music going on in New Orleans.

Billy Bragg

Protest music was prematurely declared to be unfashionable,

Johnny Rivers

Performing live, that's the ultimate thing. That's where it starts and that's where it ends. It's all about playing music.

Jason Mraz

Professionally, I want to keep playing music; I can't escape that.

Josh Homme

People think that when they're playing it safe, they're trying to preserve what they have, but there is no preservation of what you have in music. There's no safety in music.

Danny Brown

At the end of the day, I think that I'm making music for me as that 12-year-old kid in front of my boombox every day. I try to think about, if I'm that little kid, what would he like?

Lord Byron

Comus all allows; / Champagne, dice, music or your neighbour's spouse.

Jamie Lynn Spears

Do people have an idea of who they think I am? Yes, and that's fine with me. My music will speak for itself.

Chris Robinson

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

They tried to sell the movie by its story. All the TV spots and trailers were story-driven, because many people still think musicals don't have serious plots.

John Elkington

This is a tremendous area. Is there a musical heritage?

They get to pick their own music and costumes. And if they don't want to, we'll pick for them. Trust me, they don't want that.

Tinashe

There was never really a Plan B for me - I always wanted to be a music artist.

Gerard Way

Singing songs that make you slit your wrists

Gerard Way

If you look in the mirror and don't like what you see, you can find out first hand what it's like to be me.

Gerard Way

Give me a shot to remember And you can take all the pain away from me A kiss and I will surrender The sharpest lives are the deadliest to lead A light to burn all the empires So bright the sun is ashamed to rise and be And I'm in love with all of those vampires So you can leave like the sane abandoned me

Gerard Way

Life is but a dream for the dead.

Gerard Way

Would you destroy Something perfect in order to make it beautiful?

Havelock Ellis

The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Unlike seeing, where one can look away, one cannot 'hear away' but must listen ... hearing implies already belonging together in such a manner that one is claimed by what is being said.

Hans Frank

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

Hans Christian Andersen

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

It costs a great deal of money to do a musical, and the more money involved, the more big business influences the artform.

Gretchen Wilson

Good music is good music.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Let there be music in the home. If you have teenagers who have their own recordings, you will be prone to describe the sound as something other than music. Let them occasionally hear something better. Expose them to it. It will speak for itself. More of appreciation will come than you may think. It may not be spoken, but it will be felt, and its influence will become increasingly manifest as the years pass.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Enjoy music. Not the kind that rocks and rolls, but the music of the masters, the music that has lived through the centuries, the music that has lifted people. If you do not have a taste for it, listen to it thoughtfully. If you do not like it the first time, listen to it again and keep listening.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

Gordon B. Hinckley

The singing of hymns and the rendition of selections from the great sacred oratorios by ward choirs all enhance the spirit of worship.

Giuseppe Verdi

To copy the truth can be a good thing, but to invent the truth is better, much better.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Music is the fragrance of the universe.

Giuseppe Mazzini

Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.