Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ariana Grande

Of course I love music and I love what I do, but seeing their response to my work is my favourite part of it.

Anthony Trollope

There is always a piano in an hotel drawing-room, on which, of course, some one of the forlorn ladies is generally employed. I do not suppose that these pianos are, in fact, as a rule, louder and harsher, more violent and less musical, than other instruments of the kind. They seem to be so, but that, I take it, arises from the exceptional mental depression of those who have to listen to them.

Ayumi Hamasaki

Music is my life, if I am without music or if I can't sing any more, I die, I'm nothing... because music is everything.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Music... will help dissolve your perplexities and purify your character and sensibilities, and in time of care and sorrow, will keep a fountain of joy alive in you.

Diana Ross

If we hold on together I know our dreams will never die Dreams see us through to forever Where clouds roll by For you and I

Diane Ackerman

We live on the leash of our senses. There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.

Alexandra Shipp

With music, you're really showing someone a piece of your soul. You're saying, 'This is mine. I wrote this, I made this, I'm performing this. This is how I'm presenting it to you.' There's something really scary about that, but there's also something next-worldly about it, too.

William Shakespeare

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.

William Shakespeare

Is it not strange that sheep's guts could hail souls out of men's bodies?

William Shakespeare

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare

John Hughes

I used to judge the quality of music by whether I could make a 90-minute cassette and not repeat any artists.

Leon Redbone

Music doesn't really require whether the person's a young person or old person for whatever kind of music it is.

We're quite comfortable playing to anyone. Our music adapts to the situation.

Dianne Wiest

Woody is so musical in his filmmaking. I've never worked with anyone I've trusted so completely. He won't let you hit a false note.

Dexter Gordon

If you can't play the Blues you might as well hang it up.

Dexter Gordon

What I'm doing, I prefer to call that jazz, because it is a beautiful word - I love it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz is a beautiful word. I love it.

Dexter Gordon

Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people.

Dexter Gordon

I hope we left you with something to put under your pillows.

Dhani Harrison

I did everything I could to not be a musician

Kurt Masur

And to understand this, I think this is a most important point where I would like always to be understood what we do with the New York Philharmonic. That the meaning of the music is number one.

Robbie Robertson

Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.

Robbie Robertson

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

Albert Schweitzer

Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from the world of unrest to a world of peace, and see reality in a new way, as if we were sitting by a mountain lake and contemplating hills and woods and clouds in the tranquil and fathomless water.

Taylor Lautner

One second I'll be listening to country, and then the next I'll be listening to rock and then R&B. It's ridiculous. I'm all over the place with my music.

Talib Kweli

People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.

Tove Lo

I've always wanted my music to have that desperation, where you just want to strip your clothes off and run down the highway. I want the feeling where you don't really know what to do with yourself - in the vocals, in the production. Everything.

Uzo Aduba

I was in New York doing musicals in the theater and on Broadway before 'Orange,' so people always ask, 'Are you ever going to get to sing? Does she even sing?' But people who know me know I actually do sing.

Brian Cox

An explorer of the universe is sexier than a musician.

Brian Eno

Even though I'm known as a pop musician, I have a seriousness about what I do.

Brian Eno

There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial: they define the edges of the territory of the music.

Bobby Robson

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist.

Bob Dylan

The Harmonica is the world’s best-selling musical instrument. You’re welcome.