Quotes about music
musical monkeys tunes
I listen to 50 Cent, Jay-Z, Stereophonics, Arctic Monkeys; also the musical Oliver - I can sing every tune. Wayne Rooney
music poet currents
He is a lyric poet . . . aloof from the swirling currents in which many of his colleagues are immersed. Samuel Barber
music song america
The popular song is America's greatest ambassador. Sammy Cahn
music thinking jazz
What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz. Samuel L. Jackson
musician chance should
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
musician chance minutes
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
music art jazz
Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms.
musical composer nations
A supreme composer can only come out of a musical nation. Ralph Vaughan Williams
music men path
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.
music rocks expression
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
music art men
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.
music two dumb
Two touch the string, The harp is dumb. Ralph Waldo Emerson
music color snakes
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but colors also; as the green grass.
music wine musician
Music and Wine are one.
music voice tone
The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life tones of tenderness, truth, or courage.
music speech cures
The music that can deepest reach and cure all ill is cordial speech.
music get-better being-me
It gets better and better being me. Liam Gallagher
music thinking people
I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste. Les Baxter
music innovation musical
Any good music must be an innovation.
music guitar play
This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world. Les Paul
music guitar wonderful
.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive
music mother different
..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else
music thinking guitar
Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive
music guitar color
Paint pictures with sound. First, find your white-the deepest, roundest sound you can play on the guitar. Then, find your black-which is the most extreme tonal difference from white you can play. Now, just pick the note where you've got white, pick it where you've got black, and then find all those colors in between. Get those colors down, and you'll be able to express almost any emotion on the guitar.?
music dream teacher
If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams. Les Brown
music salvation music-is
music became my refuge and then my salvation. Lena Horne
musician inspired
One musician listens to another musician, and you get inspired and then you do your thing, but it's yours. Lenny Kravitz
music ideas conform
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.
musical singing television
I always love to see singing on television; any form of a musical is exciting to me. Laura Benanti
musical broadway want
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. Lara Pulver
musician sin martyr
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
music art writing
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.
music darkness trash
I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.