Famous Quotes & Sayings

Katharine McPhee

I can understand why guys wouldn't be into 'Glee.' You know, that's a pretty heavy musical show. That show does, like, six songs in an episode.

George Harrison

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

John Hughes

I'd rather make music if I had the talent.

Tim Bajarin

I don't see it as a threat at all to Apple's music empire.

Jamie Blackley

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

Jane Lindskold

I don't need music to write, but sometimes I put music on. I don't need special clothes or even my own equipment.

John Oates

I don't listen to music. I very rarely listen to music. I only listen for information. I listen when a friend sends me a song or a new record.

Jason Molina

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

Hunter S. Thompson

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Singing is near miraculous because it is the mastering of what is otherwise a pure instrument of egotism: the human voice.

Honore de Balzac

Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.

Harold Prince

We've got to find a way to protect the process of making musical theater.

Harold Prince

I was there when the quote-unquote golden age of musical theater was flourishing. I met everybody who worked in theater or was famous in theater from the '40s on.

James Brown

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

James Brown

Music has to breathe and sweat. You have to play it live.

Jakob Dylan

Music is something I really have a need to do - I don't seem to be able to stop

Jacques Attali

Today, music heralds... the establishment of a society of repetition in which nothing will happen anymore.

Jacques Barzun

Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.

Jack White

It's hard to find other musicians that push you to go somewhere new all the time.

Jack White

Well, I sort of don't trust anybody who doesn't like Led Zeppelin.

James Galway

Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding.

Izaak Walton

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

Isaac Hanson

But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

Irene Cara

The music industry had virtually blacklisted me.

Elton John

Tina Turner gave me the highway blues.

Elton John

I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put into words, how wonderful life is, now you're in the world.

Elton John

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Elton John

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

Elle Fanning

I would love to do a musical!

Irving Berlin

Talent is only the starting point.

Irving Berlin

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

Montserrat Caballe

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

Milarepa

If you are a musician, in my opinion there is no greater experience than to play for one's master. It is the highest calling.