Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sidney Lanier

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Sidney Lanier

Music is love in search of a word.

Seth Godin

Remember the Bob Dylan rule: it's not just a record, it's a movement.

Ray Brown

Jazz is something that you have to feel. It's something that you have to live.

Ray Brown

The better it gets, the fewer of us know it.

Ray Charles

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.

Ray Charles

I heard someone say that all black people got rhythm. Bullshit.

Ray Charles

Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.

Ray Charles

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically.

Ray Charles

I was born with music inside me

Ray Charles

I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.

Ray Charles

Music to me is like breathing. I don't get tired of breathing, I don't get tired of music.

Tom DeLonge

Music is good when it makes you dance. Music is great when it makes you who you are

Todd Rundgren

People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Slash

... that's one of the cool things about going to local bars: seeing what people are doing and jamming with them. I'm a huge advocate of jamming with others; you learn a lot. So I love to go and do that - even if people wipe the stage up with you..

Slash

Whenever society gets too stifling and the rules too complex, there's some sort of musical explosion.

Slash

I love classical music. It has left a major mark on my playing.

Skitch Henderson

I listen to everything, I listen to all artists that come along.

Smokey Robinson

I don't ever balk at being considered a Motown person, because Motown is the greatest musical event that ever happened in the history of music

Snoop Dogg

I'm a musician - I'm always making music. Kobe Bryant is always playing ball. Well, Snoop Dogg is always recording.

Snoop Dogg

I'm just doing what I do best and that's what makes good music, and that's how you can relate to people.

Socrates

Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul, on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful.

John Milton

Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

John Milton

And in their motions harmony divine So smoothes her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.

John Milton

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Noel Coward

Star quality: I don't know what it is, but I've got it.

Noel Coward

Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.

Noel Gallagher

Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

Noel Gallagher

I do all the work so it's only right that I should get the most money. Plus I am the most handsome.

Nina Simone

I would like you to know, I am a doctor of music.

Nina Simone

When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

Nina Simone

Music is a gift and a burden I've had since I can remember who I was.

Nina Simone

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.