Famous Quotes & Sayings

J. Reuben Clark

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Gloria Estefan

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

Gloria Estefan

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Jim Croce

If you dig it, do it. If you dig it a lot, do it twice.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

You would never hear any song played twice in the same way. The words were retained, but within a certain frame there was great latitude, and the musician could improvise to his heart's content; and the more the variations and combinations, the greater the musician.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

We are concerned, not with the development of just one capacity, such as that of a mathematician, or a scientist, or a musician, but with the total development of the student as a human being.

Jane Lindskold

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

John Oates

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

Jason Molina

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Honore de Balzac

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Francis Quarles

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

Ian MacKaye

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Ian Brown

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

Horace Silver

They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

Horace Silver

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Horace Walpole

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Homer

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Danger Mouse

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

Jim Diamond

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I can usually see a glint in them if they are really passionate about music and guitar.

Katharine McPhee

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

George Harrison

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

John Hughes

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Tim Bajarin

I don't see it as a threat at all to Apple's music empire.

Jamie Blackley

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Eric Church

Man, if anybody knew the path that we've been on, no one in their right mind would ever try to duplicate it. That's something Nashville always tries to do, though. If something is successful, they try to repeat it by telling other people, "Hey, do what that guy did." I just don't think it works that way. The first one who gest there, the one that cuts the path ... it's always the roughest path but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Eric Clapton

... when I saw Jimi Hendrix I knew immediately that this guy was the real thing ... and when he played it was like a rough sketch of what he was going to become ... this guy was our generation, and he wasn't in a suit .. he played a Howlin' Wolf song 'Killing Floor', and then we (The Cream) had to carry on the set. It was pretty hard to follow ...

Eric Clapton

From the beginning, I knew intuitively that if nothing else, music was safe, and that nobody could tell me anything about it. Music didn't need a middleman, whereas all the other things in school needed some kind of explanation.