Famous Quotes & Sayings

Erykah Badu

Hip-hop is not something we do, it's something we live. It's the way we dress, the way we talk... everybody bobbing to the same beat. It's a culture, and you have to find your own place in that culture. Top 10 or Top 40 can't dictate that. They can only dictate what's marketable.

Ernest Newman

If I had the power, I would insist on all oratorios being sung in the costume of the period, with the possible exception of The Creation.

Ernest Newman

A good composer is slowly discovered and a bad composer is slowly found out.

Henry Miller

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

Henry Miller

We live in the mind, in ideas, in fragments. We no longer drink in the wild outer music of the streets - we remember only.

Henry Miller

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Mozart has the classic purity of light and the blue ocean; Beethoven the romantic grandeur which belongs to the storms of air and sea, and while the soul of Mozart seems to dwell on the ethereal peaks of Olympus, that of Beethoven climbs shuddering the storm-beaten sides of a Sinai. Blessed be they both! Each represents a moment of the ideal life, each does us good. Our love is due to both.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

Cat Stevens

Music is part of God's universe.

Cat Stevens

I let my music take me where my heart wants to go.

Cat Stevens

I suppose that by being absent from the music business, it appeared that I just dropped out, but really I never did. I was continuously working and doing various things.

Cat Stevens

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

George Eliot

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

George Eliot

Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them.

George Eliot

So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

It's really music. It's not just ringing bells.

It's possible today to get music on your phone, just difficult. Towards the end of the year, you'll see phones that are better-designed for the music experience.

Zubin Mehta

It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.

Billie Armstrong

It's nice to know that rock music still has a place on MTV.

Billie Armstrong

It's nice to know rock music still has a place at MTV,

It's sort of off-putting without the music and the sound. We haven't synched it up yet.

It's smart. A lot of people who don't like musicals like this one.

Steven Price

Every one of us has a response of some kind to music, so I don't think it's fair to ever judge what is proper and what's not.

A song will outlive all sermons in the memory.

Bob Ezrin

That's just as important when you talk about a musical culture. From our point of view as long as music is rising in that region, there's hope.

Even though many see popular music as a for-profit venture, it remains a nonprofit venture for us,

Roy Harper

Every song has a bouquet, which is the music. If you can put words with something that is really apt, then you've done it.

Mike Dirnt

For a long time we were regarded as the Susan Lucci of the Video Music Awards, ... because we could just never, we were nominated, like, 14 times or something before we ever got one.

Mystikal

It's the least I can do, to come back with some strong music.

Jarvis Cocker

For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

Jaron Lanier

If there's any object in human experience that's a precedent for what a computer should be like, it's a musical instrument: a device where you can explore a huge range of possibilities through an interface that connects your mind and your body, allowing you to be emotionally authentic and expressive.

Jane Lynch

The thing about Christmas music is the recognizability. It's great.