Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Leonard Cohen

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

Lawrence Welk

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

Lawrence Welk

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Langston Hughes

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

John Keats

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

John Keats

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Juliet Stevenson

I wouldn't even begin to presume that the talent of an able actor is anything like the talents of a prodigious musician.

Josh Billings

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Karl Barth

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Karl Kraus

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Kraus

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.

Ouida

Music is not a science any more than poetry is. It is a sublime instinct, like genius of all kinds.

Oscar Peterson

Louie Bellson represents the epitome of musical talent. His ability to cover the whole musical spectrum from an elite percussionist to a very gifted composer and arranger never ceases to amaze me. I consider him one of the musical giants of our age.

Oscar Peterson

He's not a performer, he's not a composer, he's not even a musician, but Norman Granz is Mr. Jazz.

Oscar Peterson

Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play. If you have something to say of any worth then people will listen to you.

Oscar Peterson

I believe in using the entire piano as a single instrument capable of expressing every possible musical idea.

Oscar Peterson

I'm a musician and, just as the critics are hard on me, I'm hard on the critics.

Oscar Peterson

The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.

Oscar Wilde

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Kanye West

Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

Kanye West

I use too much of my brain and need to let some of it rest.

Kanye West

I'm not a corny-ass booty freak! I'm the greatest musician of all-time.

Kanye West

I'm supposed to be a musical genius, but I can't work the car seat that well.

Kanye West

I'm really happy I'm me because if I wasn't I'd be scared. If you want that Number One spot you need to listen to my album and try to beat it.

Kanye West

I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.

Kanye West

All this role model bullshit; you don't have any extra responsibilities because you made some good songs! Your only responsibility is to make good songs.

Julian Ovenden

It seems like pop singing has sort of influenced musical theatre in so many ways - you could argue good or bad, really - and musical theatre is written for that style so often, which is a completely different style.

Paul Klee

There is plenty of room left for exact experiment in art, and the gate has been opened for some time. What had been accomplished in music by the end of the eighteenth century has only begun in the fine arts. Mathematics and physics have given us a clue in the form of rules to be strictly observed or departed from, as the case may be. Here salutary discipline is come to grips first of all with the function of forms, and not with form as the final result … in this way we learn how to look beyond the surface and get to the root of things.