Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nick Hornby

I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ...

Nick Hornby

People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

Mary Lou Williams

Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind.

Mary Lou Williams

I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking.

Mark Twain

I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

Mark Twain

Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully.

Marian Keyes

Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

Nicholas Sparks

Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing.

Neal A. Maxwell

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

Oscar Wilde

Music is the perfect type of art.

Oscar Wilde

As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

Madonna Ciccone

i won't be happy until i'm famous like God

Madonna Ciccone

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

Ma Rainey

A tune's like a staircase - walk up on it.

Ma Rainey

[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'.

Ma Rainey

I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past.

Lydia Lunch

Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician.

Luke Wilson

As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical.

Michael Jackson

A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song.

Michael Jackson

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with.

Michael Winterbottom

I'm a fan of music from all over the world.

Mari Evans

I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jazz speaks for life. This is triumphant music.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must use time creatively.

Mark Knopfler

...the music you make is shaped by what you play it on ... if you feel that you're not getting enough out of a song, change the instrument - go from an acoustic to an electric or vice versa, or try an open tuning ... do something to shake it up...

Mark Knopfler

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

Mark Hoppus

Music is life. Music defines peoples' experience on this planet.

Marian McPartland

There are a million good tunes.

Marguerite Yourcenar

In the evenings the art of building gave way to that of music, which is architecture, too, though invisible.

Marianne Faithfull

I do sometimes think I could have done without the drugs actually; that was a waste of time, and a huge risk. But then again, there's nothing I can change, so in a way regret is pointless.

Mike Burns

Is the circle of fifths a drinking game?

Ned Rorem

Love is a mystery which, when solved, evaporates. The same holds for music.