Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eric Clapton

... whatever your standing in life, the most important thing is behaving in ways that help other people. It's the same with music. I am a servant of the music ... and if I get caught up in ego, I'll lose everything .. it'll burn and that's a guarantee ...

Eric Clapton

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

Enya

Music is like a mirror in front of you. You're exposing everything, but surely that's better than suppressing. ... You have to dig deep and that can be hard for anybody, no matter what profession. I feel that I need to actually push myself to the limit to feel happy with the end result.

Enrique Iglesias

The one thing about music is that there are no rules.

Eminem

I've accomplished enough with the music that I haven't had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

Eminem

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can't get it out, I start feeling bad about myself - a lot of self-loathing.

Eminem

Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.

Eminem

I didn't have nothin' going for me... school, home... until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Eminem

I need drama in my life to keep making music.

Elvis Costello

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.

Elvis Costello

Songs are more powerful than books.

Elvis Costello

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture - it's really a stupid thing to want to do.

Elvis Costello

My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.

Elvis Costello

There are five things to write songs about: I'm leaving you. You're leaving me. I want you. You don't want me. I believe in something. Five subjects, and 12 notes. For all that, we musicians do pretty well.

Jasper Carrott

I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for.

Jason Mraz

I discovered at 18 that singing and songwriting was my strength. I decided that it was closest to my heart and if I pursued it then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream.

Jason Mraz

I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.

Evelyn Glennie

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Eva Marie Saint

Painters can study the masters can't they? Musicians can hear Beethoven. What will filmmakers do?

Isabelle Huppert

Going through this musical experience really helped us to understand the core of the film.

Isadora Duncan

No composer has yet caught this rhythm of America - it is too mighty for the ears of most.

Isadora Duncan

The dancer's body is simply the luminous manifestation of the soul.

Isadora Duncan

If I could tell you what it meant, there would be no point in dancing it

Ira Gershwin

Love is sweeping the country.

Ira Gershwin

I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more?

Ira Gershwin

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Ira Gershwin

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Jack Nicholson

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy.

Jack Kerouac

The only truth is music.

Jack Black

Iris, if you were a melody...piano melody. I used only the good notes.

Isaac Stern

I have a responsibility to pass on to the next generation what I learned from my teachers, ... It keeps me young and reminds me where I came from. Teaching young artists is like giving water to a flower.

Isaac Stern

There are more bad musicians than there is bad music.

Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.