Famous Quotes & Sayings

K'naan

I wasn't making music consciously when I was younger. I was a musician, but that has its own stigmas. Anywhere on the planet, it's one of the more undervalued positions.

Nathan East

I'll be forever grateful to this instrument for being the surfboard that I rode the wave of life on

Natalia Kills

I make music because I like making music.

Kelsey Grammer

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Keith Moon

I've always enjoyed myself. Unhappy periods for me last about twenty minutes.

Keith Richards

About myself I have no great illusions. I know what I am. I know what I'm good at. I know what I ain't. I'm always hoping to surprise myself. But I do have a love of music and I do love to communicate it, and that's the best I can do, really. And I can raise a good family, too.

Keith Richards

... I don't like to go into the studio with all the songs worked out and planned before hand ... you've got to give the band something to use its imagination on as well. That can make a very ordinary song come alive into something totally different ... the X-factor - so important in rock and roll - which is the feel..

Keith Richards

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.

Keith Richards

Some people think I'm a mythical genius, others think I'm a junkie madman.

Keith Richards

The thing about being a songwriter, once you realize you are one, is that to provide ammo, you start to become an observer. ... You're constantly on the alert. That faculty gets trained in you over the years: observing people, how they react to one another, which in a way makes you weirdly distant. ... It's a little of Peeping Tom, being a song-writer.

Keith Richards

I don't wave a flag for anything. I'm a musician.

Keith Richards

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

Kris Jenner

I'm supposed to be this musical genius and everything, but I can't really work the car seat that well.

Kris Kristofferson

... Johnny Cashs' face belongs on Mount Rushmore ...

Kim Deal

A, C, and G are the only chords any honest musician needs.

Keren Ann

I like to capture moments. It's like a photograph. Ten years from now you look at the photograph and you don't remember it but rather the whole week or month around the photo.

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.

Ishmael Reed

We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash behind the eyes.For us, it was not only an intellectual movement, but a way of life. We walked, dressed, and rapped Be-Bop.

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.

Idina Menzel

The truth is I love musical theatre and always have.

Gioachino Rossini

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

Gioachino Rossini

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.