Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerome Bruner

The foundations of any subject may be taught to anybody at any age in some form.

Jelly Roll Morton

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

Jelly Roll Morton

It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

Jelly Roll Morton

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

Jeff Beck

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Jeff Beck

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.

Jeff Beck

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

Jeff Beck

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

Jeff Beck

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

Jeff Beck

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite.

Jerry O'Connell

Horror movies are here to stay, you know? It's not a fad. Even the musical has gone in and out of style from time to time. Horror movies have always been around.

Jeremy Jordan

What I love about doing musical work is that it heightens the emotion.

Jean-Paul Sartre

For the moment, the jazz is playing; there is no melody, just notes, a myriad tiny tremors. The notes know no rest, an inflexibleorder gives birth to them then destroys them, without ever leaving them the chance to recuperate and exist for themselves.... I would like to hole them back, but I know that, if I succeeded in stooping one, there would only remain in may hand a corrupt and languishing sound. I must accept their death; I must even want that death: I know of few more bitter or intense impressions.

Georges Bizet

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us.

George Russell

If America has a future, Jazz has a future. The two are inseparable.

George Russell

I don't just write music to esthetically satisfy somebody. The reason I write music is that I feel it's a vehicle or channel which leads to your true self, your essence.

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?

Esperanza Spalding

Jazz music just resonates with the frequency of me.

Ernest Hemingway

Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?