Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Dance music is great, but it's not a time to be reflective or particularly wistful.

Taylor Swift

Music is my shining light, my favorite thing in the world. T get me to stop doing it for one second would be difficult!

Stanley Jordan

Genius is a word too often tossed around in musical circles.

Soren Kierkegaard

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Stephen Stills

Neil Young and Barry Friedman had stolen a Buffalo Springfield sign off the steamroller for Barrys house. They put it up. We all looked at it on the wall and a light went off. That's how we came up with the name

Stephen Stills

I remember that first week at the Whisky and the gigs we (The Buffalo Springfield) did with the Byrds, We could really smoke ! That band never got on record as bad, and as hard as we were. Live we sounded like the Rolling Stones...

Stephen Chbosky

And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of bad times because of those songs. And how many people enjoyed good times with those songs. And how much those songs really mean. I think it would be great to have written one of those songs. I bet if I wrote one of them, I would be very proud. I hope the people who wrote those songs are happy. I hope they feel it's enough. I really do because they've made me happy. And I'm only one person.

Stella Benson

The music paled like a candle and went out ...

Thomas Haynes Bayly

I'm saddest when I sing.

Thomas Hardy

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

Tim Burton

One of the things I loved about the musical was that you listened to the soundtrack and it told you the story.

Thomas Beecham

I prefer Offenbach to Bach often.

Thomas Beecham

Without question the most unpopular medium of musical sound in the world.

Thomas Beecham

We cannot expect you to be with us all the time, but perhaps you could be good enough to keep in touch now and again.

Thomas Beecham

Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance.

Thomas Beecham

A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.

Thomas Beecham

Elgar's first symphony is the musical equivalent of St Pancras Railway Station.

Thomas Beecham

Great music is that which penetrates the ear with facility and leaves the memory with difficulty. Magical music never leaves the memory.

Thomas Beecham

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

Thomas Beecham

The trouble with women in an orchestra is that if they're attractive it will upset my players and if they're not it will upset me.

Woody Allen

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

William Wordsworth

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

William Wordsworth

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

William Wordsworth

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

William Gilmore Simms

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Sarah Silverman

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sara Bareilles

Music is catharsis for me.

Samuel Pepys

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.