Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gustav Mahler

A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.

Gordon Waller

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

John Dryden

As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes.

John Dryden

Music is inarticulate poesy.

John Logan

Music is the medicine of the mind.

John Lydon

I don't listen to music. I hate music.

John Lydon

I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine.

John Lewis

Ornette Coleman is doing the only really new thing in jazz since the innovations in the mid-forties of Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, and those of Thelonious Monk

John Lewis

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

John Legend

I don't feel like that many musicians are competitive with each other.

John Legend

Musicians are in-season all the time.

Pete Fountain

If you're making money people don't think you're playing Jazz. When you're not making money they think you're a great Jazz musician.

Pearl Bailey

I tell stories to music and, thank God, in tune.

Rachel Cohn

There's the usual suspects in there, Green Day and The Clash and The Smiths, yeah, but there's also Ella and Frank, even Dino, some Curtis Mayfield and Minor Threat and Dusty Springfield and Belle & Sebastian, and as I flip through his musical life, getting to know his tastes, I must acknowledge that not only am I not frigid, but I also may be multi-orgasmic.

Rachel Cohn

We are the ones who take this thing called music and line it up with this thing called time. We are the ticking, we are the pulsing, we are underneath every part of this moment. And by making the moment our own, we are rendering it timeless. There is no audience. There are no instruments. There are only bodies and thoughts and murmurs and looks. It's the concert rush to end all concert rushes, because this is what matters. When the heart races, this is what it's racing towards.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music is the purest form of art... therefore true poets...seek to express the universe in terms of music. The singer has everything within him. The notes come out from his very life. They are not materials gathered from outside.

Rabindranath Tagore

Melody and harmony are like lines and colors in pictures. A simple linear picture may be completely beautiful; the introduction of color may make it vague and insignificant. Yet color may, by combination with lines, create great pictures, so long as it does not smother and destroy their value.

Rabindranath Tagore

The world speaks to me in colors, my soul answers in music.

Rabindranath Tagore

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Rabindranath Tagore

The touch of an infinite mystery passes over the trivial and the familiar, making it break out into ineffable music... The trees, the stars, and the blue hills ache with a meaning which can never be uttered in words.

Placido Domingo

The high note is not the only thing.

Pitbull

It's all about music, because music is basically what's... been my avenue out of maybe being involved in things I shouldn't be.

Plato

Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.

Keith Jarrett

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

Keith Jarrett

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

Keith Jarrett

Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.

Keith Jarrett

I cannot say what I think is right about Music. I only know the rightness of it.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music.

Ralph Ellison

Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression.

Ralph Ellison

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

Molly Ringwald

I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.