Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Lennon

The thing is, in America, it just seemed ridiculous - I mean, the idea of having a hit record over there, ... It was just something you could never do.

John Lennon

The world went mad and used us as an excuse.

John Lennon

We were always going to dump him when we found a decent drummer.

John Lennon

I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan.

John Lennon

There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme.

John Lennon

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

John Lennon

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

John Lennon

The Beatles were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

John Lee Hooker

I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

Jimmy Cliff

I've done a lot of things to become what I've become, out to create and establish a musical form and I call it movie.

Elvis Presley

Any audience, as a rule, goes for a fast number.

Elvis Presley

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Elvis Presley

The image is one thing and the human being is another. It's very hard to live up to an image, put it that way.

Elvis Presley

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.

Elvis Presley

In this day and time you can't even get sick; you are strung-out! Well by God, I'll tell you something, friend: I have never been strung-out in my life, except on music!

Elliott Carter

My musical life started with hearing and being fascinated by contemporary music.

Elaine Paige

Evita' obviously would always be very special to me because it was the first major musical that I did on stage and created in the U.K. with Hal Prince directing.

John Cullum

I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

John Burroughs

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

Linda Ellerbee

Like Nietzsche, I believe that without music, life would be a mistake. Nothing but silence says it better.

Lil Wayne

My aim is just to make good music every single time.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion.

Leo Tolstoy

Music is the shorthand of emotion. Emotions, which let themselves be described in words with such difficulty, are directly conveyed to man in music, and in that is its power and significance.

Leo Ornstein

Hopefully, I have a certain amount of what you call musical talent.

Lady Gaga

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Lady Gaga

I am focused on the work. I am constantly creating. I am a busy girl. I live and breathe my work. I love what I do. I believe in the message. There's no stopping. I didn't create the fame, the fame created me.

Lady Gaga

I'm already crazy. I'm a fearless person. I think it creeps up on you. I don't think it can be stopped. If my destiny is to lose my mind because of fame, then that's my destiny. But my passion still means more than anything.

Lady Gaga

I'm a little bit naked, but that's okay.

Lady Gaga

I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive.

Lady Gaga

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Lady Gaga

I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public.

Lady Gaga

Don't be a drag. Just be a queen.

Lady Gaga

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.