Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Disraeli

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

Carla Bley

I like chords that are very lush with all the lush parts taken out.

Carla Bley

What's interesting about a person without problems?

Al Yankovic

Buy our album, were Nirvana, a garage band from Seattle. Well, it sure beats raising cattle.

Al Capp

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Grimes

My image seems to be so infantilized, and I don't really know why. It belittles the music.

Laura Mvula

One of the things I haven't been ready for is how male-dominated the music industry is. I just didn't have a clue.

Music is feeling. Once you start thinking about it then you overdevelop it. It should come from the heart, the soul, and the subconscious. Music is all about the moment, and if you think about it then you're already in the next moment.

Rutina Wesley

Music is definitely influential on how I approach my scenes.

Daron Malakian

Music is an emotion, and I put it out there.

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

Josh Homme

Music is the only thing I've ever known that doesn't have any rules at all.

Raquel Castro

Music isn't what I do. It's who I am.

Music is not simply an orchestration of something, but it's also not something as trivial as honesty.

Chris Stapleton

Music is not a game to me. I take it very seriously.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Rita Ora

Music expresses - you express yourself with music.

David Lambert

Music will always be there. I own a piano. I have it in my apartment. I play it every day, and I have a lot of musician friends who I play with.

Ciara

Music that comes from the heart - that's the music that moves me.

Josh Homme

Music's supposed to be real. When it really touches you, it's supposed to be real.

Robby Benson

Music runs through everything I do - I even think musically; even when I was acting, but, especially, when I am directing. Directing is very musical.

Emmanuel Jal

Music moves my emotions because music loosens me up.

Chico Buarque

Music kind of kidnapped me for a while.

Mayer Hawthorne

Music is timeless, so I want to give people shows they'll never forget so that I can do this forever.

Stephen Marley

My father's music was influential. My place is my place. I must be myself and who I am.

Grimes

My favorite music is never the music that anyone else likes, and other people's favorite songs are always my least favorite.

New Orleans was a musician's paradise. But if we all leave, that music scene could be gone.

Eddie Van Halen

I wanted a Gibson type sound, but with a Strat vibrato ... I bought a body from Charvel for $50.00 and a neck for $80.00 - I slapped it together, put an old Gibson PAF in it and painted it up with the stripes

Eddie Van Halen

I took classical piano lessons from the age of five.

Eddie Van Halen

I was just a punk kid, trying to get a sound out of a guitar that I couldn't get off the rack, so I built one myself ... I wanted a Gibson type of sound but with a Strat vibrato .. I went to town painting it and I put three pickups back in, but they don't work - only the rear one works

Eddie Van Halen

Eventually you'll take the phrases and rhythm patterns you've copped and begin to put your own mark on them

Eddie Van Halen

If your going to learn to play lead guitar, get an electric guitar .. it doesn't have to be an expensive one .. acoustic guitars aren't good for learning lead, because you can't play up very high on the neck and they take heavier-gauge strings which makes it hard to bend notes

Eddie Van Halen

Rock & Roll is feeling, and after you know most of the basics ... chords, rhythm, scales and bends ... getting that feeling is just about the most important aspect of playing guitar