Famous Quotes & Sayings

Johnny Mercer

You must have been a beautiful baby, 'Cos baby just look at you now.

Johnny Mercer

Skylark Have you anything to say to me? Won't you tell me where my love can be?

Johnny Mercer

She's nobody's fool so I'm playing it cool as can be. I'll give it a whirl but I ain't for no girl catching me.

Johnny Marr

The biggest musical influence on me was my mum. We were both enraptured by music.

John Ruskin

Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.

You've got people who are out to get music cheap.

And in terms of online music subscription services, we are a big part of the MusicNet service which will be launched next month, so we've got that end covered.

Liza Minnelli

And I'm starting work on a musical set in New York.

This is only the second time Tommy has been here in Texas for something like this. Normally, musicians of his reputation work with college-level students; we're very fortunate.

This is my life. I'm going to be doing playing music and writing until the day I die. It's what I do. I don't have any other choices.

Missy Elliot

Music should be your escape.

Philip James Bailey

Music tells no truths.

Pharrell Williams

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Pharrell Williams

I think all music is a gift from God.

Peggy Lee

What are you going to do when you love music? You can't stop.

Paulo Coelho

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

Mariah Carey

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

MC Hammer

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

MC Hammer

I intend to put them on the charts.

MC Hammer

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

Max Roach

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Max Roach

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

May Sarton

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

Matthew Shipp

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Maynard Ferguson

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

Maynard James Keenan

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.