Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Weiland

If I was in a zombie apocalypse, I wouldn't be playing music, because that would attract zombies.

Simon McBurney

I'm passionate about music, and I feel that theatre has an extraordinarily musical ability in the way it operates on the audience.

Zubin Mehta

It is the technical part of the performance which is troubling me more than the musical part.

Taylor Swift

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

Stephen Malkmus

The word "down," is very musical. It just always comes.

Elle Varner

One of my biggest musical influences is definitely Ella Fitzgerald as a vocalist.

Ella Fitzgerald

The fabulous places I've been, wonderful things that've happened, great people I've met ought to make a story.

Ella Fitzgerald

When we were at the Apollo, Holiday was a block away. I asked her for her autograph.

Ella Fitzgerald

Music is the universal language ... it brings people closer together.

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.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....

Tablo

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Rosanne Cash

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Rosanne Cash

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

Rosanne Cash

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Stephanie Mills

Jazz voices that unvanquishable, natural will toward creaativity and self-expression, depite everything, in the here and now.

Stan Kenton

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Stan Kenton

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

Stan Getz

I compulsively reach for perfection in music, often at the expense of everything else in my life.

Stan Getz

We recorded to document ourselves, not to sell a lot of records.

Stan Getz

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

Stan Getz

I cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won't come out.

Stan Getz

The value of jazz still has to be clarified. People involve themselves with its superficialities without digging for its soul.

Stan Getz

Other than conversation, no other art form can give the satisfaction of spontaneous interaction like Jazz.

Stan Getz

You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.

Stan Getz

A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.