Famous Quotes & Sayings

Linda Ronstadt

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

Linda Ronstadt

the relentless touring and endless repetition of the same songs over and over again promoted a creeping awareness that my music had begun to sound like my washing machine.

Linda Ronstadt

...I think it was a modest thing I did (Fahrenheit 9/11) ... this is an election year ... I'm not telling them how to vote. I'm saying get information about the issues ... at first there's just silence, then there's 'Yeah!' and then there's 'Boo' ... I have never seen a reaction like this, in all my years of touring ... Clear Channel can't threaten to not play my records because they are not going to play them anyway ...

Linda Ronstadt

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.

Khalil Gibran

Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.

Khalil Gibran

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

Khalil Gibran

Would that I could be the peacemaker in your soul, that I might turn the discord and the rivalry of your elements into oneness and melody.

Khalil Gibran

Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Songs are as sad as the listener.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Norman Wisdom

I was in the band as a boy and was taught music and learned to compose.

Percy Heath

Jazz is letting everybody do his or her thing with the music.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Sing again, with your dear voice revealing. A tone Of some world far from ours, where music and moonlight and feeling are one.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die, Vibrates in the memory; Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Music, when soft voices die Vibrates in the memory.

Paul Westerberg

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz is the folk music of the machine age.

Paul Whiteman

Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.

Mel Brooks

I know how to make it a great musical. I've got to. It's like I've got to see it on stage.

Mary Oliver

Sing, if you can sing, and it not still be musical inside yourself.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Jazz exemplifies artistic activity that is at once individual and communal, performance that is both repetitive and innovative, each participant sometimes providing background support and sometimes flying free.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

When I think of the artists I admire and seek out musically. It's because I'm curious about where they're going to go the next time they have a chance to put a record out. It's not about where I find them on the radio dial, or how many records they're selling.

Pietro Mascagni

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Pierre Beaumarchais

Today if something is not worth saying, people sing it.

Peter Warlock

Dates and periods are of interest only to the student of musical history.

Pete Wentz

Everyone has learned how to monetize music except the music industry.

Pete Townshend

It's the singer not the song that makes the music move along.

Pete Townshend

The day you open your mind to music, you're halfway to opening your mind to life.

Pete Seeger

Honest songs aren`t written for money.

Pete Seeger

There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.

Pete Seeger

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

Pete Doherty

I've learnt that there's nothing in my day to day life or anything that I do that is in any way aimed at changing how I'm perceived or how I'm presented; it's completely impossible.