Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

William Faulkner

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

William Faulkner

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

Warren Haynes

I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.

Tori Amos

A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.

Tori Amos

Girls you've gotta know when it's time to turn the page.

Tori Amos

So, you can make me come, that doesn't make you Jesus.

Vance Packard

Rock 'n Roll is monotony tinged with hysteria.

Valerie June

I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.

Robin Williams

You know what music is - a harmonic connection between all living beings.

Robert W. Service

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

Robert Redford

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

Rob Sheffield

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Rob Sheffield

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Rob Sheffield

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

Rebecca West

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Rebecca West

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Roy Wood

Of course, the wind sort of swept up and the music was flying around in mid air and they were trying to play off it. You had to be there. It was quite funny.

Rickie Lee Jones

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Rich Robinson

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Reba McEntire

But I think a song that is really emotionally packed, with a great melody that just will soar, that's the keeper.

Reba McEntire

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats -- all of it.

Ritchie Blackmore

... Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful...

Being on a musical quest was something I always enjoyed.

Tupac Shakur

I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.