Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Szell

In music one must think with the heart and feel with the brain.

George Szell

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

George Shearing

Can anybody be given creativity? No. Only equipment to develop it if it's in them in the first place.

George Shearing

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

George Shearing

When people ask me how is it I was a musician, I facetiously say that I'm a firm believer in reincarnation and in a previous life I was Johann Sebastian Bach's guide dog.

Jean Cocteau

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

Jean Cocteau

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

George Carlin

All music is the blues. All of it.

George Carlin

Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free.

Frank Sinatra

You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

Frank Sinatra

Rock 'n Roll: The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.

Frank Sinatra

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

Frank Sinatra

I'm gonna live till I die.

Frank Sinatra

The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin-not sounding like them, but "playing" the voice like those instrumentalists.

Frank Sinatra

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

George Eliot

Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts.

Felix Mendelssohn

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....

Fats Waller

If you don't know what it is, don't mess with it.

Fats Waller

This is so nice, it must be illegal.

Ezra Pound

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Ezra Taft Benson

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Eugene Mirman

It's weird - the cab driver is playing very loud dance music and yet it doesn't really feel like a party.

Shane Harper

I've actually been playing music ever since I was a young a kid. I got my first guitar when I was about 7 or 8 years old, so I've always been doing music.

I've always done music, since I was 13. I really don't know what I'd be doing if I wasn't doing music.

Bob Guiney

I've always done music long before I did the TV thing.

Gin Wigmore

I want a long career in music, so you've gotta keep trying things out; it's gotta get progressively better.

Jerry Jeff Walker

Texas is where I found my musical self.

Julie Kagawa

Some writers like to work in other places like coffee shops, but I can't - I'd end up people-watching. And if I were at a bookstore, I'd be reading. Sometimes I have some music on, but usually I like it quiet.

Juliana Hatfield

I wanted to be a writer since I was a little girl - long before I was a musician and a songwriter.

Herbie Hancock

I've had a lot of music in my own head.

Rebecca Ferguson

I'm playing with music and working on different types of music. But I've realised that I can't really stray from what is my marker.

I'm just kind of a music junkie. Whatever I'm doing at the moment is my favorite.

Erykah Badu

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.