Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Redford

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

Rob Sheffield

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Rob Sheffield

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Rob Sheffield

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

Rebecca West

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

Rebecca West

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

Rebecca West

Mozart eliminates the idea of haste from life. His airs could not lag as they make their journey through the listener's attention; they are not the right shape for loitering. But it is as true that they never rush, they are never headlong or helter-skelter, they splash no mud, they raise no dust.

Rebecca West

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Richard Wagner

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

Richard Wagner

I know absolutely nothing about music.

Richard Wagner

Never look at the trombones, it only encourages them.

Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

Rene Descartes

The object of music is a Sound. The end; to delight, and move various Affections in us.

Thomas de Quincey

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Rickie Lee Jones

As a musician, I've accomplished what I hoped to accomplish.

Richard M. Nixon

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

Rich Robinson

It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.

Sri Chinmoy

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

Sri Chinmoy

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

Sri Chinmoy

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Roger McNamee

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Roger McGuinn

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

Roger McGuinn

...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!..

Roger McGuinn

...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that ...

Tiesto

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

Thomas Merton

By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.