Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Butler Yeats

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.

Will Allison

For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.

Walter Savage Landor

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

Yngwie Malmsteen

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Yngwie Malmsteen

... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs ...

Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Woody Herman

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

Woody Guthrie

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

Wim Wenders

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

Wes Montgomery

I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

Wes Montgomery

I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

Wes Montgomery

When I got pretty good I went on the road with a group. We starved.

Wes Montgomery

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values.

Zachary Levi

My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.

Zakk Wylde

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

Yusef Lateef

External instruments are only extensions of the biological instrument.

Will Smith

My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

Walter Bagehot

An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

William Blake

A musician, an artist, an architect: the man or woman who is not one of these is not a Christian.

Wayne Shorter

Clouds float in the same pattern only once.

Wayne Shorter

To hell with the rules. I'm going for the unknown.

Wayne Shorter

You know the actor John Garfield? In one movie he walked up to this train station, the ticket booth, and the guy says, 'Yes, where are you going?' And he says, 'I want a ticket to nowhere.' I thought: that's it. The freedom to do that. I want a ticket to nowhere.

Wayne Shorter

Composing is improvisation slowed down.

Wayne Shorter

I always think of music as interior decoration. So, if you have all kinds of music, you are fully decorated!

Wayne Shorter

If all you have is music, then you don't have music

Wayne Shorter

Music is interior decoration.

Wayne Rooney

I like musicals and I love music.