Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Cosgrove

I really love music but I've always wanted to act.

Pearl S. Buck

music is not technique and melody, but the meaning of life itself, infinitely sorrowful and unbearably beautiful.

Peter Gabriel

There has always been a strong relationship between music and religion. It is because they both plug directly into the heart and can have real power for good or evil.

Peter Brook

We are aware that the conductor is not really making the music, it is making him -- if he is relaxed, open and attuned, then the invisible will take possession of him; through him, it will reach us.

Paulo Costanzo

I'm a musical theater aficionado, a.k.a. loser.

Phil Collins

It's actually come as quite a shock to learn just how many people don't like me.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not neglect your music. It will be a companion which will sweeten many hours of life to you....

Tablo

I'd rather be just a Korean musician as opposed to, you know, a K-Pop musician.

T Bone Burnett

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.

Swoosie Kurtz

I'd love to do a musical. I have a little list of them in my head.

Roscoe Mitchell

You have to know composition to be a good improviser.

Roscoe Mitchell

If you listen to nature, all the sounds are done in a confident way. I'm trying to do that.

Roscoe Mitchell

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Rosanne Cash

More and more, I see myself as a folk musician, and someone who values context.

Rosanne Cash

I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

Rosanne Cash

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

Rupert Holmes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Rumi

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.

Tom Petty

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

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.

Trey Parker

I like to fancy myself more of a musician than anything else.

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.