Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pablo Casals

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Plato

Music gives a soul to the universe.

Plato

The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful.

Plato

Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained.

Plato

Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education.

Paula Cole

The river was always there inside of me, but I was very shy. I could see that this was my path. I felt destiny in my own music.

Paula Cole

Thank God I have music to vent my emotions. I'd be in a prison if I didn't.

Phil Lesh

... We borrowed it all from Coltrane. I started encouraging everybody in the band to listen to John Coltrane - 'Check it out, see what these guys do.' They take one chord, the tonic chord, and just play all over it. 'We can do that too!' I wanted to make our music something really amazing - I wanted it to be jaw-dropping and turn on a dime and do all of those things that I knew music could do, and nobody told us we couldn't do it. I shouldn't say 'I,' though - Jerry Garcia was behind it the whole way.

Phil Lesh

... Everything we (the Grateful Dead) ever did was a demonstration of the value of cross-fertilization, It was unconscious at first, but when we started looking at each other, we had all these different influences... Bobby Weir used to call it electric Dixieland.

Lee Ann Womack

So you do shorter versions of the hits, or you take out a long guitar solo or things like that to make time for the hits and new music as well. But I don't think any of us ever get to do as much new music as we would like to.

Lee Ann Womack

I came to town thinking that everybody had the same idea of what country music was that I did.

Lee Ann Womack

But I'm also a music lover, and I'll always try a lot of different things.

Lee Ann Womack

And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people in Nashville, their idea of what country music was was not the same as mine.

Lee Ann Womack

There was passion, there was laughter The first morning after I just couldn't get my feet to touch the ground Everytime we were together We talked about forever I was certain it was Heaven We had found.

Lance Morrow

Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

Johnny Depp

How many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me, I was in.

Johnny Depp

Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.

John Updike

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

John Szarkowski

Trained as a musician, [photographer Ansel] Adams understood the richness of variation that could be unfolded from a simple theme.

James Joseph Sylvester

May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

Laurence Sterne

In part of Lord Kames' Elements of Criticism, he says that "music improves the relish of a banquet." That I deny,--any more than painting might do. They may both be additional pleasures, as well as conversation is, but are perfectly distinct notices; and cannot, with the least propriety, be said to mix or blend with the repast, as none of them serve to raise the flavor of the wine, the sauce, the meat, or help to quicken appetite. But music and painting both add a spirit to devotion, and elevate the ardor.

Larry Gelbart

If Hitler’s still alive, I hope he’s out of town with a musical.

Liberace

You know the bank I used to cry all the way to. I bought it.

Lester Bowie

Jazz is neither specific repertoire, nor academic exercise... but a way of life.

Gary Cherone

I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.

George Gershwin

I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

George Gershwin

Jazz is one of the best things that you can find in your life, it can always be your friend.

George Gershwin

True music must repeat the thought and inspirations of the people and the time.

George Gershwin

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

George Foreman

Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it.

Jon Landau

To her audience, Janis Joplin has remained a symbol, artifact and reminder of late Sixties youth culture. Her popularity never derived from her musical ability, but from her capacity to link her fantasies of freedom and immortality with ours.

Johnny Winter

I just hope I'm remembered as a good blues musician.