Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michel Legrand

To play piano is a significant part of my life, my existence. It fulfills a very physical & spiritual need for me.

Martina McBride

Even if the sun refused to shine Even if romance ran out of rhyme You would still have my heart until the end of time You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Martina McBride

I've dreamed of this a thousand times before But in my dreams I couldn't love you more I will give you my heart Until the end of time... You're all I need, my love, my Valentine

Ted Turner

Music has a great power for bringing people together. With so many forces in this world acting to drive wedges between people, it's important to preserve those things that help us experience our common humanity.

Ted Nugent

Music is the great connector.

Sameron adion aso I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow

Thelonious Monk

I find my inspiration in myself.

Thelonious Monk

Man, that cat [Ornette Coleman] is nuts.

Thelonious Monk

A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.

Thelonious Monk

I don't know where jazz is going. Maybe it's going to hell. You can't make anything go anywhere. It just happens.

Thelonious Monk

I compose my pieces with a formula that I created myself.

Thelonious Monk

After two takes you're imitating yourself.

Thelonious Monk

If you really understand the meaning of be-bop, you understand the meaning of freedom.

Thelonious Monk

I don't have a definition of Jazz. You're just supposed to know it when you hear it.

Thelonious Monk

Jazz is freedom. You think about that.

Thelonious Monk

All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.

Thelonious Monk

Trying to explain music is like trying to dance architecture.

Terry Riley

The highest point of music for me is to become in a place where there is no desire, no craving, wanting to do anything else. It is the best place you have ever been, and yet there is nothing there.

Terry McMillan

I'd crack up without my music. It's the best company you can have, really. It don't say 'no' or 'maybe,' or ask no questions.

Terry Pratchett

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Kin Hubbard

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune.

Melissa Etheridge

The songs are inspired by my experiences. Sometimes they are more than my real-life and, conversely, my life is more than just my songs.

Michelle Branch

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

Michelle Branch

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

Michael Tippett

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

Michael Tilson Thomas

The world changes when there's music in it.

Michael Tilson Thomas

You can't have Bach, Mozart and Beethoven as your favorite composers. They simply define what music is!

Michael Tilson Thomas

It's easier to interest a conservative audience in pushing the musical boundaries than to involve a young audience used to very noisy, assertive music in something like Schubert or Bach because the further back you go, the less bells and whistles there are.

Michael Stipe

I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

Michael Stipe

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Michael Ondaatje

If any of you on your journeys see her-shout to me, whistle...he sang, and it became a habit for audiences to shout and whistle in response to those lines. There was nowhere he could hide in such a song that had all of its doors and windows open, so that he could walk out of it artlessly, the antiphonal responses blending with him as if he were no longer on stage.

Michael Ondaatje

What night gave Rafael was a formlessness in which everything had a purpose. As if darkness had a hidden musical language.

Richard Parsons

If there is such thing as a perfect fit, Warner EMI Music is it.