Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thom Yorke

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.

Thom Yorke

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

Thom Yorke

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

Thom Yorke

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

Thom Yorke

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.

Thom Yorke

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Thom Yorke

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

Terri Windling

I like Celtic folk music, Native American music, and any kind of early music. There isn't a lot of music that I don't like... except for Show Tunes.

Tennessee Williams

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Teddy Thompson

I come from a place where there's a lot of musical families.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think sometimes could I only have music on my own terms, could I live in a great city, and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves, that were a bath and a medicine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Literature is the effort of man to indemnify himself for the wrongs of his condition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startles out wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.

Sean Lennon

For me, songwriting is something that I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day.

Scarlett Johansson

I love musicals, I started acting because I wanted to be in a musical.

Shinichi Suzuki

I have come to the definite conclusion that musical ability is not an inborn talent but an ability which can be developed.

Sean Paul

I don't want to do something unproductive with my time, so I decided to do something musical. So it felt good to say, 'Yeah, I'm producing.' It gave me a fresh vibe - inspiring in a different way.

Lewis Thomas

Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.

Lewis Thomas

We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Lesley Garrett

That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.

Lee Konitz

Benny Goodman was one of the big influences as a clarinet player. That's why I wanted the clarinet.

Lee Konitz

As long as there are people trying to play music in a sincere way, there will be Jazz.

Lee Konitz

I'd like to feel that whatever I play is a result of whatever I've heard.

Lee Konitz

Sound is the first thing that we tune into.

Lee Konitz

Most jazz players work out their solos, at least to the extent that they have a very specific vocabulary.

Lawrence Durrell

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Laura Riding

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Samuel Johnson

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Sam Bush

The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.