Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Monroe

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

Bill Monroe

I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

Bob Marley

If you know what your life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

Bob Marley

The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you.

Bob Marley

I woke up this morning, smiled at the rising sun.

Bob Marley

Your life is worth much more than gold.

Bob Marley

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

Bob Marley

All those governments and this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?

Bob Marley

The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari.

Bob Marley

Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out.

Bob Marley

We JAH people can make it work.

Bob Marley

Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness.

Bob Marley

Rastafari not a culture, it's a reality.

Bob Marley

Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet.

Bob Marley

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

Bob Marley

In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty. Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration When one door is closed, many more is open. Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion.

Bob Marley

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

Bob Marley

Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality.

Bob Marley

The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall.

Bob Marley

Judge not, before you judge yourself. Judge not, if you're not ready for judgment. Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you. I know that I'm not perfect and that I don't claim to be, so before you point your fingers make sure your hands are clean.

Bill Wyman

With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

Bill Wyman

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

Bob Hope

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

Bjork

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Bill Frisell

There's always this sound out there that's just a little beyond my reach & that just sort of keeps me going.

Bill Frisell

There's so much music out there & so many possibilities. I like anyone who plays any instrument.

Bill Frisell

"Music, for me, has always been a place where anything is possible--a refuge, a magical world where anyone can go, where all kinds of people can come together, and anything can happen. We are limited only by our imaginations.

Betty Carter

If it wasn't for hustlers, gangsters & gamblers there'd be no Jazz. Wasn't middle~class who said Let's go hear Bird tonight.

Bob Weir

We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

Bob Weir

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

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.