Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ella Fitzgerald

Everybody wants to know about my style and how it came about. It's no big secret. It's the way I feel.

Ella Fitzgerald

I stole everything I ever heard, but mostly I stole from the horns.

Joshua Bell

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

Joshua Homme

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

Joshua Homme

Not everyone deserves to be a musician, you get lucky enough to be one.

Joseph Haydn

If you want to know whether you have written anything worth preserving, sing it to yourself without any accompaniment.

Joseph Haydn

Young people can learn from my example that something can come from nothing. What I have become is the result of my hard efforts.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.

Karrine Steffans

I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.

Leonard Bernstein

Music, of all the arts, stands in a special region, unlit by any star but its own, and utterly without meaning ... except its own.

Leonard Bernstein

The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial.

Leonard Bernstein

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

Leonard Bernstein

Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable.

Leona Lewis

I love music but, of course, I'd choose love over that.

Leona Lewis

I'd love to do a film like 'Chicago.' Something musical because I've obviously come from that background.

Leonard Cohen

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

Leonard Cohen

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

Lawrence Welk

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

Lawrence Welk

The William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh... was the place where Champagne Music was born.

Lawrence Welk

One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

Langston Hughes

Blues had the pulse beat of the people who keep on going.

John Keats

Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor.

John Keats

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

John Keats

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.

John Keats

Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

John D. MacDonald

Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential self.

Lisa Gerrard

There's something extremely fragile about musicians, and that's their strength.

Lionel Hampton

Music was our wife and we loved her. We stayed with her, clothed her and put diamond rings on her hands.

Lionel Hampton

It's always Jazz. You can put a new dress on her, a new hat, but no matter what kind of clothes she's the same old broad.

Lionel Hampton

Playing is my way of thinking, talking, communicating.

Lionel Hampton

Man, as long as people want to hear Jazz, I'll give it to them.

Link Wray

If you went to see me today, you might not like my music.

Link Wray

I just believe in my Indian, spiritual god and my music.