Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ronstadt

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Linda Ronstadt

...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway ...

Linda Ellerbee

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Lil Wayne

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Lady Gaga

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Lady Gaga

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

Lady Gaga

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Lady Gaga

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Lady Gaga

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

Lady Gaga

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Lady Gaga

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

Lady Gaga

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.

Lady Gaga

I'm telling you a lie in a vicious effort that you will repeat my lie over and over until it becomes true

Levon Helm

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

Levon Helm

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

Leonard Bernstein

It would be nice to hear someone accidentally whistle something of mine, somewhere, just once.

Leonard Bernstein

Even experimental composers, revolutionary composers, self-styled radicals are, in writing revolutionary music, recognizing the music that preceded them precisely by trying to avoid it.

Leonard Bernstein

I think it is time we learned the lesson of our century: that the progress of the human spirit must keep pace with technological and scientific progress, or that spirit will die. It is incumbent on our educators to remember this; and music is at the top of the spiritual must list. When the study of the arts leads to the adoration of the formula (heaven forbid), we shall be lost. But as long as we insist on maintaining artistic vitality, we are able to hope in man

Josephine Baker

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.

Miranda Cosgrove

I really love music but I've always wanted to act.

Pearl S. Buck

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Peter Gabriel

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

Peter Brook

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Paulo Costanzo

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Phil Collins

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

Pete Fountain

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Pearl Bailey

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

Rachel Cohn

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.