Famous Quotes & Sayings

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!

J. K. Rowling

Ah, music. A magic beyond all we do here!

Itzhak Perlman

In difficult times, people just like to hear music. They like to be moved by what they hear. And music speaks different languages.

Itzhak Perlman

... everybody has a different kind of talent and a different timetable as to when they develop ..

H. L. Mencken

The music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.

H. L. Mencken

The genuine music lover may accept the carnal husk of opera to get at the kernel of actual music within, but that is no sign that he approves the carnal husk or enjoys gnawing through it.

H. L. Mencken

The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and rages, and there was a touch of hellfire in his mirth.

H. L. Mencken

Richard Strauss--Old Home Week in Gomorrah

H. L. Mencken

Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.

H. L. Mencken

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

H. L. Mencken

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

H. L. Mencken

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

Guillaume Canet

I know that one day I would love to do a musical.

J. Reuben Clark

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

Glenn Tipton

It was about working with other musicians, but more than that it's about exploring musical areas that you could never do with the band you're in, in my case Judas Priest. You could tackle musical areas and lyrical areas that wouldn't be appropriate for Priest.

Gloria Estefan

My guitar and singing was my way of crying.

Gloria Estefan

A lot of the way I sing is playing off other musicians. It's what I love to do the most.

Ellen DeGeneres

Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.

Francis Quarles

Toyish airs please trivial ears.

Ian MacKaye

To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.

Ian Brown

The technical brilliance of Lang Lang and the musical genius to create a masterpiece on the spot.

Horace Silver

Basically my influences have been American influences. It's been blues, gospel, swing era music, bebop music, Broadway show music, classical music. It's like making a stew. You put all these various ingredients in it. You season it with this. You put that in it. You put the other in it. You mix it all up and it comes out something neat, something that you created.

Horace Silver

They didn't dictate to me as to what kind of music that they wanted me to play or what tunes, what musicians that I was going to use. They let me do my thing. That's one reason I stayed there for twenty-eight years.

Horace Silver

We all have to open our minds, stretch forth, take chances and venture out musically to try and arrive at something new and different.

Horace Silver

Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.

Horace Walpole

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians.

Homer

Among all men on the earth bards have a share of honor and reverence, because the muse has taught them songs and loves the race of bards.

Danger Mouse

I'd hate to have to leave music, but if I got stuck some place, I would.

Jim Diamond

I can write music but I'm not much for words.

I can usually see a glint in them if they are really passionate about music and guitar.