Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damian Marley

There must be pain before healing. So in that way, the music is revolutionary, because it tells the truth.

David Bennett

They're not telling Music Row how to record the songs. But I think more than ever before they're dictating the look and the feel of the genre.

Chris Cornell

There's a lot of music that I don't like.

Sam Tsui

If you have music that sounds like what you cover, people won't be able to differentiate who you are.

Maisie Williams

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

Bobby Short

If you try to do that in pop music - to play only rare show tunes, for example - people don't come.

Nick Hornby

In other words, it's too tough to be a musician at the moment.

Mary Roach

I rarely listen to music while writing. I wish I could, but it distracts me.

Usher

In my opinion the world is in need of real soul music.

I never thought of being a musician as a proper career.

Carlisle Floyd

If an American audience is given a serious musical theater piece that is well produced, dramatically gripping and wonderfully acted, they'll respond to it.

Bruno Mars

I signed up to be a musician, I want to perform, I want to sing.

Jarvis Cocker

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Jaron Lanier

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Jane Lynch

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.

Ethel Barrymore

Fundamentally I feel that there is as much difference between the stage and the films as between a piano and a violin. Normally you can't become a virtuoso in both.

Erik Satie

We cannot doubt that animals both love and practice music. That is evident. But it seems their musical system differs from ours. It is another school....We are not familiar with their didactic works. Perhaps they don't have any.

Erik Satie

Before I compose a piece, I walk around it several times, accompanied by myself.

Carly Simon

We went to see all the shows. American musical theater and jazz were very big.

Carly Simon

You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it.

Kevin Schmidt

I have my writing and acting and producing and directing, and my younger brother has his music and his acting.

Kip Moore

People ask who I am as an artist, who I am as a person. I don't ever want to tell them who I am; you can find that out in the music.

Joe Perry

If you get satisfaction out of playing music and entertaining people and it makes you feel right, then go for it.

Jake Shimabukuro

I think everyone should feel like they can make music, they can create music.

Evan Parker

I think the whole question of meaning in music is difficult enough even if you hear me playing live right now in the same room! What I mean and what you take from it may be two quite different things anyway.

Jesse Eisenberg

I'm not into music - the only music I like is musical theater, but I have every Ween album.

Jencarlos Canela

I was a musician first before anything.

Glen Hansard

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Frank Zappa

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.

Frank Zappa

If classical music is the state of the art, then the arts are in a sad state.

Frank Zappa

Music is always a commentary on society.

Frank Zappa

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Frank Zappa

Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.