Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paulo Coelho

I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

Mariah Carey

It's a long road when you face the world alone, when no one reaches out a hand for you to hold. You can find love if you search within your soul, and the emptiness you felt will disappear.

MC Hammer

If kids say I'm just a gospel rapper, I won't be able to get in their cars.

MC Hammer

I intend to put them on the charts.

MC Hammer

This is it for a winner, Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner, Move slide your rump, Just for a minute let's all do the bump, Bump, bump, bump yeah.

Meat Loaf

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

Max Roach

Monk encouraged me to emancipate the drums from their subservient role as timekeepers.

Max Roach

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of their instrument.

Max Roach

Jazz is a democratic musical form. We take our respective instruments & collectively create a thing of beauty.

May Sarton

Flowers and plants are silent presences. They nourish every sense except the ear.

Matthew Shipp

Thelonious Sphere Monk: there's not a more perfect name to fit his compositions than that name.

Matthew Shipp

What makes bebop legitimate is the fact that when it was done, it was illegitimate.

Matthew Shipp

The iconoclastic mode, that specific mode of language, there is an element of it that it is punk - that is confrontational. That's just a part of the language of jazz - at a certain point.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.

Maynard Ferguson

The day of the great Jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

Maynard Ferguson

Change is always happening. That's one of the wonderful things about Jazz music.

Maynard James Keenan

A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end - and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.

Maya Angelou

The music was my friend, my lover, my family.

Maya Angelou

All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had.

Maya Angelou

Always in the black spirituals there's that promise that things are going to be better, by and by.

Maya Angelou

My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances.

Marilyn Manson

Music is the strongest form of magic.

Mason Cooley

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

Mason Cooley

Mathematics: silent harmonies. Music: sounding numbers.

Marvin Minsky

We must see that music theory is not only about music, but about how people process it. To understand any art, we must look below its surface into the psychological details of its creation and absorption.

Marvin Minsky

Listening to music engages the previously acquired personal knowledge of the listener.

Martin Short

A musical is only as good as its director. The same can also be said for the CIA.

Michael Franti

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home

Michael Chiklis

I've been a musician my whole life. I'm really enjoying making music again.

Michael Connelly

As a bassist he could never really be a sideman. He was always the anchor. He drove the beat. even if it was behind Miles Davis'a horn.

Michael Connelly

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

Mencius

If the King loves music, it is well with the land.