Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lawrence Durrell

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Laura Riding

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Vanessa Mae

Music is about the performance.

Susan Tedeschi

... Clear Channel owns all the major radio stations and venues. Most musicians aren't aware that a few people control so much of what we hear...

Suzanne Collins

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

Taylor Swift

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

Stephen Malkmus

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Stephanie Mills

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

Stan Kenton

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Stan Kenton

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Getz

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Stan Getz

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Stan Getz

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Stan Getz

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Stan Getz

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Stan Getz

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Stanley Jordan

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Stephen Stills

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Stephen Stills

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones...

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Sid Caesar

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Sid Vicious

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Taylor Swift

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

Taylor Swift

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Taylor Swift

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater