Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christina Aguilera

For me, my voice and music was always an outlet. Growing up in an unstable environment and whatnot, music was my only real escape.

Chris Martin

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

Frances Bean Cobain

The death of young musicians isn’t something to romanticize

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as is life.

George Santayana

The earth has music for those who listen.

George Santayana

Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

George Santayana

Music is essentially useless, as life is; but both have an ideal extension which lends utility to its conditions.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Friedrich Nietzsche

Only sick music makes money today.

Friedrich Nietzsche

In music the passions enjoy themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?

Friedrich Nietzsche

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.

Friedrich Nietzsche

How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Life without music is no life at all.

Franz Grillparzer

A flutist who is moved to tears by his own performance will soon make the listeners laugh because of the sounds that he produces.

Frank Zappa

Donnie and Marie can both take a bite.

Frank Zappa

Michael is Janet and Janet is Michael.

Frank Zappa

They were wearing smelly blankets, they looked like Donovan fans.

Frank Zappa

Classical music is this music that was written by a bunch of dead people a long time ago.

Frank Zappa

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of situation. The challenges are in the realm of speed, redundancy, choreography, and grooming... ...clouds of educated gnat-notes.

Jerome Bruner

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Jelly Roll Morton

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Jelly Roll Morton

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Jeff Beck

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Jeff Beck

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

Jeff Beck

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Jeff Beck

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Jeff Beck

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Jeff Beck

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

George Eliot

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

George Eliot

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music.