Famous Quotes & Sayings

Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

Stephen Marley

I am a musician, ya know; music is my world.

Orlando Bloom

He would often play a piece of music just before a take to set the mood.

Andre Benjamin

But he says in music ?you start from scratch.

But I have to play the music. I can't play without seeing it.

Jimi Hendrix

But I always told him, 'When you start playing music you do something original.' He sure did, and I was really proud of him for doing that.

Harry Belafonte

You can cage the singer but not the song.

Guy Maddin

I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning.

Greg Giraldo

If being a gangster were a prerequisite to being a musician, there'd be a lot less cello music, for example.

Glenn Miller

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

Glenn Gould

Mozart died too late rather than too soon.

Glenn Gould

[Bach is the] reason I became a musician

Glenn Gould

The mental imagery involved with pianistic tactilia is not related to the striking of individual keys but rather to the rites of passage between notes.

Glenn Frey

Follow your musical instincts. Do what you feel is right. Don't be relegated to a certain category.

Gerry Mulligan

Life on the road is murder. It's as though life begins and ends when you have your horn in your mouth.

Gerry Mulligan

What I came back to is that jazz is a music to be played and not to be intellectualized on.

Harry Connick, Jr.

I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

The music is in minors.

Gwen Stefani

My songs are basically my diaries. Some of my best songwriting has come out of time when I've been going through a personal nightmare.

Greg Thomas

Jazz is improvisation and syncopation, with resilience and flow, with earthy elegance, nuance and subtlety, with the integrity of individual expression within (usually) a group context, with true democracy in action.

Gregg Allman

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

Gregory Bateson

There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

Gram Parsons

I think pure country music includes rock and roll .. I've never been able to get into the further label of country-rock .. how can you define something like that ? - I just say this: It's music. Either it's good or it's bad; either you like it or you don't

Grant-Lee Phillips

Being an actor is a much more structured life than being a musician.

Jamie Cullum

I never sought out a record deal. It caught me with my pants down. I was just a musician doing my thing, I didn't even send my records out.

Katie Johnson

I'm used to working with him. I know what to expect. It all transitions together so well, and the music is beautiful.

Conrad Sewell

I'm not trying to say I'm this artist who is all artsy and that I only write music for myself, because I don't. I write music for other people to enjoy, so I think about if it'd be an idea someone else would like.

I like Whistler's reference to music, the titles of his works and his conventional use of color.

Johnny Marr

I live a super-healthy lifestyle not because it's sensible or that I'm contrite, but because I need to keep my focus on the music I'm making. To do that, I need to be wide awake.

David Archuleta

I like the pop music, but I still want to have meaning in my music.

Mary Lambert

I like to think that my music allows people that cathartic cry.

I listen to a lot of different styles of music. So it doesn't have to be just one thing. I prefer it. If it's not, I get bored very easily.

Daryl Hall

I'm constantly on my toes and re-examining my own music.