Famous Quotes & Sayings

Les Brown

If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.

Lena Horne

music became my refuge and then my salvation.

Lenny Kravitz

One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours.

Lenny Kravitz

The idea of having to conform to someone else's ideal is unacceptable. I'm gonna be me. And if I can't be me, then I'd rather not do it.

Laura Benanti

I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me.

Lara Pulver

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

Thom Yorke

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

Thom Yorke

I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.

Thom Yorke

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

Thom Yorke

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Sid Caesar

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Sid Vicious

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Taylor Swift

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

Taylor Swift

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Taylor Swift

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.

Josh Billings

Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

Karl Barth

With an ear open to your musical dialectic, one can be young and become old, can work and rest, be content and sad: in short, one can live.

Karl Kraus

Technology is a servant who makes so much noise cleaning up in the next room that his master cannot make music.

Karl Kraus

Let my style capture all the sounds of my time. This should make it an annoyance to my contemporaries. But later generations should hold it to their ears like a seashell in which there is the music of an ocean of mud.

Karl Lagerfeld

The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.