Famous Quotes & Sayings

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Ringo Starr

I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

Ringo Starr

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Richie Sambora

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Tim McGraw

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tom Stoppard

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

Tom Morello

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Tom Glazer

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Tina Weymouth

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.

Tina Weymouth

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Tina Weymouth

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Thurston Moore

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

Tablo

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Rosanne Cash

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Rosanne Cash

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

Rosanne Cash

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Rupert Holmes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Rumi

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Tom Petty

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

Tom Robbins

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Tom Felton

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.