Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Beresford

It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.

Brian Martin

... we use Dr.Ducks Ax Wax religiously on all Danelectros before they ever leave the factory...

Brian May

I just want to be able to play as fast as my brain goes, and my brain doesn't go all that fast.

Brian Ferneyhough

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

Brett Somers

My musical director, Mark Cherry, is the most wonderful person who ever lived on God's good green Earth. He's my director, he does the arrangements. Really, he does everything - including certain janitorial chores!

Boris Vian

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

Aretha Franklin

I've always felt that rock & roll was very, very wholesome.

Aretha Franklin

...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso

Aretha Franklin

R&B is not a fad; it's the truth.

Aretha Franklin

Being a singer is a natural gift. It means I'm using to the highest degree possible the gift that god gave me to use. I'm happy with that.

Archie Shepp

And when I met Cecil Taylor it was a complete transformation of musical identities. All the tenets that I had grown up with were thrown out the window.

Archie Shepp

In America, for a brief time, people who followed John Coltrane were studied and considered important, but it didn't last long. The result is that the kind of music I played in the '60's is completely dismissed in this country as a wrong turn, a suicidal effort.

Ben Nicholson

The kind of painting which I find exciting is not necessarily representational or non-representational, but it is musical and architectural... Whether this visual relationship is slightly more or slightly less abstract is, for me, beside the point.

Barbara Sher

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.

Augusten Burroughs

Each time my mother went psychotic, I hoped it would be the last time. Afterward she would tell me, 'I think that was the final episode. I think I had a breakthrough.' And I would believe-for a few months-that it was true. That she was back to stay. Maybe it was like having a rock star mother who was always on the road. Were there Benatar children? Did they sit around and wonder if their mom's Hell is for Children tour was going to be her last tour?

Art Blakey

We're here to have a ball.

Art Blakey

It takes an intelligent ear to listen to Jazz.

Art Blakey

A name doesn't make the music. It's just called that to differentiate it from other types of music.

Art Blakey

Jazz washes away the dust of every day life.

Art Tatum

I don't think I'm ready for New York.

Art Tatum

Look, you come in here tomorrow, and anything you do with your right hand I'll do with my left.

Art Tatum

You have to practice improvisation, let no one kid you about it!

Art Tatum

There is no such thing as a wrong note.

Art Linkletter

Troubadours travelled from town to town. They didn't really sing too good, which is the main reason they kept going.

Let them know that you support music programs.

Dan Hill

Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.

Several of its themes and musical motifs are strikingly similar to those present in other Vivaldi works.

Bill Wyman

So I was releasing this tension with my solo albums, but I didn't want to play music just for money.

Max Beerbohm

She was one of those people who said ''I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.''

Dennis Wilson

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

Debra Wilson

My older sister Nikki went to Hampton music school in Virginia, then to another school later in New York.

Eleanor Robson Belmont

We use important words too frequently and they lose value; for instance, charm and great. An actor or musician often is proclaimedgreat when we really mean he is outstanding.

Eduard Hanslick

Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.