Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tupac Shakur

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

Tupac Shakur

It's like if you plant something in the concrete and if it grow and the rose petal got all kinds of scratches and marks, you ain't gonna say, 'Damn, look at all the scratches and marks on the rose that grew from the concrete.' You're gonna be like, 'Damn, a rose grew from the concrete?'

Trey Anastasio

I've always loved musical theater. It's a bit of a family tradition.

Trey Anastasio

When you're a musician and you break new ground it resonates into the common consciousness.

Trey Anastasio

I feel a great responsibility to deliver for our audience ... I am like their servant, but there's only one honest way to lift people up, which is to feel genuinely elevated yourself. And the way to do that is follow your heart. That's all we try to do.

Saul Bellow

I must play the instrument I've got.

Sarah Dessen

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Ronnie Wood

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ronnie Wood

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Ronnie Wood

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Roger Scruton

Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.

Roger Waters

For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

Rod Stewart

I don't enjoy songwriting.

Rod Stewart

You can keep your Streisands.

Roberta Flack

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Robert Wyatt

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Robert Wyatt

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Robert Schumann

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Robert Schumann

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Robert Schumann

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Plant

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Lopez

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Sarah Vaughan

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.

Sarah Vaughan

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Sarah Vaughan

There are notes between notes, you know.

Sarah McLachlan

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sara Teasdale

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

Sara Teasdale

As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.

Voltaire

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Voltaire

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

William C. Bryant

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.