Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris O'Dowd

I come from a musical kind of family.

Chris Hillman

"Go and Say Goodbye" by the Buffalo Springfield stands as one of the first examples of what would later be branded country rock

Faith Baldwin

the one universal form of art is music.

Fabiola Gianotti

I like the beauty of physics, nature is beautiful, it is my second soul to music.

In 1955 music wasn't that important. Music was a kind of a special thing you went and did.

Michael Franti

In Jamaica, the music is recorded for the sound system, not the iPod. It's about experiencing music together, with other people.

Anthony Newley

I'm not a trained musician or singer, but I can turn out a song.

Lykke Li

I'm interested in a lot of different sounds and types of music.

John Trudell

I'm not a musician making words to go with my music.

Plutarch

Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

Mike Figgis

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Mike Figgis

I've held onto little musical sketches that I thought could be useful, and the more time that I spend doing them for each film, then the more I have to draw on.

Mickey Hart

Music gives the soul this inner self-expression, a voice. It gives the soul a sound, the sound of the Muse.

Mickey Hart

There's nothing like music to relieve the soul and uplift it.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

What is the voice of song when the world lacks the ear of taste?

Nathaniel Hawthorne

She poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.

Josh Hartnett

My musical tastes go from Zeppelin to Bob Dylan to Kanye West and Lil' Wayne. Anything modern and progressive.

John A. Logan

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Johannes Rau

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

John Abercrombie

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Jackson Pollock

Love is friendship set to music.

Louise Erdrich

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

Sufjan Stevens

A musician's attempt to summarize his or her work leads to all this prescriptive chatter, or what I call the 'Modifier's Madness.' A lot of adjectives working overtime.

Sting

I think the labyrinth is an interesting metaphor for our lives as musicians. We're always being drawn toward the center of it because that's where the mystery is. What is music? It's a journey.

Sting

There's no religion but sex and music.

Sting

Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of songs.

Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Sonny Rollins

I'm fortunate that I'm making a living at it now because I'm not equipped to do anything else.

Sonny Rollins

Improvisation is the ability to create something very spiritual, something of one's own.

Sonny Rollins

One very important thing I learned from Monk was his complete dedication to music. That was his reason for being alive. Nothing else mattered except music, really.

Sonny Rollins

I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.

Sonny Rollins

Many jazz artists go to L.A. seeking a more comfortable life and then they really stop playing.

Sonny Rollins

No one is original. Everyone is derivative.