Famous Quotes & Sayings

John A. Logan

Music's the medicine of the mind.

Johannes Rau

Education is more than Pisa. Particularly musical education. We also need education and training for more than reasons of usefulness and marketability.

John Abercrombie

As Eric Dolphy said 'Once you play the music, it's in the air. It's gone'. And that's true. But when you record it, it comes back to haunt you sometimes.

Jackson Pollock

Love is friendship set to music.

Louise Erdrich

The music was more than music - at least what we are used to hearing. The music was feeling itself. The sound connected instantly with something deep and joyous.

James M. Barrie

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Joe Perry

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity

Joan Didion

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power.

Joan Jett

I like to hang out with my friends. I love music. I like to go to the movies. I like to eat. I like to cook.

Joan Jett

I know music is subjective.

Joan Jett

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

Joan Jett

I'm really happy doing what I'm doing. I'm not looking to do anything else. I love what I do. I love music. I love playing. I love touring.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is going to break the way because music is in a spiritual thing of its own. It's like the waves of the ocean. You can't just cut out the perfect wave and take it home with you.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is the most important thing. I'm thinking of my future. There has to be something new, and I want to be part of it. I want to lead an orchestra with excellent musicians. I want to play music which draws pictures of the world and its space

Jimi Hendrix

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is my religion.

Jimi Hendrix

I want to play music that draws a picture of the world and its space.

Jimi Hendrix

... with Voodoo Child somebody was filming when we started doing that. We did that about three times because they wanted to film us in the studio, to make us (imitates a pompous voice) 'make it look like you're recording boys' - one of them scenes, you know, so okey, let's play this and then we went into Voodoo Child

Jimi Hendrix

.. the Grand Ole Opry used to come on, and I used to watch that. They used to have some pretty heavy cats, heavy guitar players

Jimi Hendrix

I dig Strauss and Wagner. Those cats are good.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe type of high. It's more the way it was supposed to be. That's where highness came, I guess, from anyway. It's nothing but rhythm and motion.

Jimi Hendrix

.. I get more of a dreamy thing from the audience - it's more of a thing that you go up into. You get into such a pitch sometimes that you go up into another thing. You don't forget about the audience, but you forget about all the paranoia, that thing where you're saying, 'Oh gosh, I'm on stage - what am I going to do now ?' - Then you go into this other thing, and it turns out to be like almost like a play in certain ways

Jimi Hendrix

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Jimi Hendrix

My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.

Jimi Hendrix

I try to use my music to move these people to act.

Jimi Hendrix

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy

Jimi Hendrix

The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is religion for me. There'll be music in the hereafter, too.

Jimi Hendrix

I wouldn't say that I'm the greatest guitarist ever. I'd say probably that I'm the greatest guitarist sitting in this chair.

Jimi Hendrix

Music is Magic. Magic is Life

Jimi Hendrix

Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.

Jimi Hendrix

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it ...

Jimi Hendrix

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.