Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Gioachino Rossini

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Gioachino Rossini

Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

ELECTED Silence, sing to me And beat upon my whorlèd ear, Pipe me to pastures still and be The music that I care to hear.

J. K. Rowling

Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic far beyond all we do here! And now, bedtime. Off you trot!

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.

Ken Burns

Jazz is a very accurate, curiously accurate accompaniment to 20th century America.

Ken Burns

By its very nature, no one person can ever be the center of Jazz.

Ken Burns

The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts.

J. Tillman

There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Sergei Prokofiev

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Mick Jagger

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Mick Jagger

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.