Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jimi Hendrix

Music is a safe kind of high.

Jimi Hendrix

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Jimi Hendrix

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

Jimi Hendrix

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Jim Morrison

Music inflames temperament.

Jim Morrison

I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think.

Jim Morrison

I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

Emilia Clarke

Music is something that's always been a huge part of my life.

John McLaughlin

Spirituality is worthless if it's not practical. Music is my work. I am a musician.

John McLaughlin

I find Indian music very funky. I mean it's very soulful, with their own kind of blues. But it's the only other school on the planet that develops improvisation to the high degree that you find in jazz music. So we have a lot of common ground.

John Mellencamp

Country sure has changed in the last 10 years. It was one thing, then it was another. Country has slowly marched toward a rock beat and rock preservation. Country artists of today. Man! That's how I used to sound in the '80s.

John Jay Chapman

The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.

John Hendricks

A little bit if listening with a passable ear will get an awful lot of messages anywhere.

Lykke Li

The first tape I got was Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection.' I'm inspired by the way she started from nothing and didn't have a big musical talent, but had a big dream.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Truly to sing, that is a different breath.

Sergei Prokofiev

I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

My chief virtue (or if you like, defect) has been a tireless lifelong search for an original, individual musical idiom. I detest imitation, I detest hackneyed devices.

Sergei Prokofiev

There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

Mick Jagger

Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.

Mick Jagger

I don't believe in having bands for solo records.

Mick Jagger

Of course we're doing it for the money. We've always done it for the money.

Sidney Lanier

When I hear music, it seems to me that all the sins of my life pass slowly by me with veiled faces, lay their hands on my head, and say softly, "My child."

Sidney Lanier

Music is love in search of a word.

John Frusciante

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

John Frusciante

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.

John Denver

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions

John Denver

Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same.

John Dewey

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

John Carpenter

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

John August

With Corpse Bride, I saw a lot more of it during the process because we were changing things a lot. When I came onto Corpse Bride, it wasn't a musical.

Johan Huizinga

One does not realize the historical sensation as a re-experiencing, but as an understanding that is closely related to the understanding of music, or rather of the world by means of music.

Johan Huizinga

The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.

Jimmy Rushing

Anytime a person can play the blues, he has a soul and he has a 'lift' to play anything else he wants to play. It's sort of like the foundation to a building.