Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Twain

We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess.

Mark Twain

Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

Mark Twain

A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't.

Oscar Wilde

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

Paul Robeson

I've learned that my people are not the only ones oppressed... I have sung my songs all over the world and everywhere found that some common bond makes the people of all lands take to Negro songs as their own.

Patrick Rothfuss

Music sounds different to the one who plays it. It is the musician's curse.

Patrick Rothfuss

A poet is a musician who can't sing.

Lily Allen

I like them old and rich.

Lillian Hellman

People always sound so proud when they announce they know nothing of music.

Lillian Hellman

The judgment of music, like the inspiration for it, must come slow and measured, if it comes with truth.

Leopold Stokowski

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

Leon Redbone

Who told you I was a musician?

Leigh Hunt

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Lauren Myracle

If everyone started off the day singing, just think how happy they'd be.

Pablo Picasso

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Paul Morley

I always thought that pop groups were going to be made up in the 21st century. It wouldn't be four musicians, as such. Especially in the online world, with the worlds that are opening up.

Paul Morley

I'm not denying that in the world there's been some tremendous musical happenings, like DJ Shadow or whatever, that kind of thing. But when it goes into the weird thing where you get a remix done by a certain person because they need a brand name, that's when it becomes really discouraging.

Paul Hindemith

People who make music together cannot be enemies, at least while the music lasts.

Paul Hindemith

There are only two things worth aiming for, good music and a clean conscience.

Oscar Wilde

Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.

For the most part, I like to record music as I write it.

For the people who are going to purchase music online, the 79-, 88-, 99-cent price point doesn't make much difference.

Itzhak Perlman

Preparing for a future in music is an expensive proposition.

Itzhak Perlman

... Beethoven concertos ... Tchaicovsky concertos ... with a lot of these wonderful masterpieces there's always something wonderful to find ... there's always something new to find ...

Itzhak Perlman

You decide to be a musician, you have to put in the time.

Shiny musical instruments wailed, their mouths open like lilies.

Irvine Welsh

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

Igor Stravinsky

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all. Music expresses itself.

Igor Stravinsky

Music is given to us specifically to make order of things, to move from an anarchic, individualistic state to a regulated, perfectly concious one, which alone insures vitality and durability.

Igor Stravinsky

I live neither in the past nor in the future. I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

Igor Stravinsky

The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

Idina Menzel

The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.