Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca West

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Rebecca West

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Roy Wood

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Rose Macaulay

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

Ron Carter

I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound.

Tyler Hilton

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

Truman Capote

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

Truman Capote

Writing has laws of perspective, of light and shade just as painting does, or music. If you are born knowing them, fine. If not, learn them. Then rearrange the rules to suit yourself.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Rick Wright

We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it.

Oscar Hammerstein II

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

Oscar Hammerstein II

The hills are alive with the sound of music, with songs they have sung for a thousand years.

Oscar Hammerstein II

You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?

Paul McCartney

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

Paul McCartney

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

Paul McCartney

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Paul McCartney

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

Percy Heath

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Paul Westerberg

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Mel Brooks

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mary Oliver

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

Pietro Mascagni

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.