Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cat Stevens

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

Cat Stevens

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

George Eliot

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

George Eliot

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

Gottfried Leibniz

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Gottfried Leibniz

Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.

Harold Prince

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

James Brown

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

Jakob Dylan

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Jacques Attali

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Barzun

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jack White

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Jack White

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

James Galway

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Izaak Walton

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Irene Cara

The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.

Elton John

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elton John

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Elle Fanning

I would love to do a musical!

Ellen DeGeneres

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

Jerry O'Connell

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

Jeremy Jordan

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

Georges Bizet

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

George Russell

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

George Russell

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

Jeffrey Osborne

Only the two of us together flying high upon the wings of love.

Jeffrey Eugenides

Detroit's a great music town. If your interaction with it was mainly musical, I'm sure you have a good opinion of the place.