Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Costanzo

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Phil Collins

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

Pete Fountain

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Pearl Bailey

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

Rachel Cohn

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

Rachel Cohn

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Rabindranath Tagore

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

Placido Domingo

The high note is not the only thing.

Pitbull

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Lewis Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Lesley Garrett

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lee Konitz

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Lee Konitz

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Lee Konitz

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Lee Konitz

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

Lee Konitz

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.