Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Warlock

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Pete Wentz

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

Pete Townshend

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Pete Townshend

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Pete Seeger

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

Pete Seeger

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Pete Doherty

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.

Pete Doherty

'Each man kills the things he loves'. I recognise that in myself, in relationships, even with guitars, beautiful things that I've had and wilfully destroyed.

Pete Doherty

I've got a fierce passion for politics but I can't stand the smarmy, hypocritical upper-middle-class dictator nation that prevails and has always prevailed in this country. I'm up for petrol bombers, mate, and fighting in the streets.

Pete Doherty

If you've lost your faith in love and music then the end won't be long.

Quincy Jones

You can study orchestration, you can study harmony and theory and everything else, but melodies come straight from God.

Quincy Jones

I don't deserve a Songwriters Hall of Fame Award. But fifteen years ago, I had a brain operation and I didn't deserve that, either. So I'll keep it.

Quincy Jones

Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

Quincy Jones

Jazz has the power to make men forget their differences and come together... Jazz is the personification of transforming overwhelmingly negative circumstances into freedom, friendship, hope, and dignity.

Prince

Hard to say what's right when all I wanna do is wrong.

Prince

The key to longevity is to learn every aspect of music that you can.

Plutarch

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Mike Figgis

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Mike Figgis

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Mickey Hart

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Mickey Hart

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Victor Hugo

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Borge

...the elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Victor Borge

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Victor Borge

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Victor Borge

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

Victor Borge

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.