Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Moog

I'm an engineer, ... I see myself as a toolmaker, and the musicians are my customers. They use the tools.

I like to work with artists who are as wide in their musical taste as I am.

Suzi Quatro

I refused to wear make-up on TV. I wanted my music to be heard.

Josh Klinghoffer

I'll try not to let a day go by without making a song. I don't think I've created a lot of music.

Mitchel Musso

I have to be my own artist. I need the world to know who I am, especially for music. When it comes to acting, that is a whole other story. I have no complaints; that's a team effort. It's not just me, it's everyone. But when it comes to music, it is solo; that's all me.

He's timeless. His music has been around for years.

I don't recall there being a lot music at home.

James Taylor

I don't read music. I don't write or read music.

Mandy Patinkin

I didn't think of myself as a singer. I'm an actor who recites words, and sometimes that happens to be on musical notes.

James Vincent McMorrow

I didn't start playing music really until I was 18/19, so it was a relatively new thing. I didn't play much music in school.

Ingmar Bergman

There is no art form that has so much in common with film as music. Both affect our emotions directly, not via the intellect.

Stephen Marley

I want to reach the people. This music is the people's music. It's music for your brain, for your heart, for your soul. That is what we always go to achieve. Soul united.

They are not only stealing from the school. They are stealing music from the children.

They wrote a very interesting musical score to it. It's not just old standard Western songs at all. It runs the gamut of musical types.

Mike Dirnt

For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.

Mystikal

It's the least I can do, to come back with some strong music.

Lou Reed

It's the music that kept us all intact, kept us from going crazy.

Lou Reed

How could you even dream or think something of someone who is as uncommercial as I am?

LL Cool J

When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.

Madeleine Peyroux

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

John Fletcher

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face.

John Fogerty

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

John Fogerty

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

John Fogerty

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

John Fowles

Thomas Beecham was a pompous little band-master who stood against everything creative in the art of his time.

John F. Kennedy

As a great democratic society, we have a special responsibility to the arts. For art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color. What freedom alone can bring is the liberation of the human mind and a spirit which finds its greatest flowering in the free society. I see of little more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.

John F. Kennedy

The life of the arts is far from an interruption, a distraction, in the life of a nation, is close to the center of a nation's purpose-and is a test of the quality of a nations' civilization.

Jonathan Groff

Musical auditions are always the worst because you have to sing and act, and that's so stressful.

Jonathan Davis

The music industry can make you feel like a prostitute.

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.