Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sade Adu

I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.

Roy Ayers

The true beauty of music is that it connects people.

Robert Pattinson

I don't know much about contemporary music. I do have an iPod but I listen to a lot of old blues. I listen to John Lee Hooker and Elmore James. I have been listening to them for years. I was obsessed with Van Morrison for years. I went to see him recently where he performed Astral Weeks. I just spent the entire night crying, but I was really obsessed with Van Morrison.

Robert Pattinson

I would. I'm just too, I'm kind of, a pussy, I guess. That's the problem. But, no, I'd love to. I think everybody should do open mics. I think it's very healthy for your soul. So yeah, I'd love to do it again, but I don't know. It's like I'm cutting a record if I do open mic now, so, I don't know.

Robert Pattinson

I have been playing the piano for my entire life - since I was three ...

Robert Pattinson

Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.

Robert Mayer

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Robert Louis Stevenson

And this shall be for music when no one else is near, The fine song for singing, the rare song to hear! That only I remember, that only you admire, Of the broad road that stretches and the roadside fire.

Walt Whitman

All music is is what awakes from you when you are reminded by the instruments.

Tom Perrotta

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

Tom Morello

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Tom Glazer

When I listen to music today, it is about 99 percent classical. I rarely even listen to folk music, the music of my own specialty, because folk music is to me more limited than classical music.

Tina Weymouth

We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.

Tina Weymouth

When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.

Thurston Moore

So lots of respect for all you boys and girls out there who tab out songs like all the time. You bring rock and roll music closer to the people. Gratefully yours

S. J. Perelman

I tried to resist his overtures, but he plied me with symphonies, quartets, chamber music, and cantatas.

Russell Sherman

To master the piano is to master the universe.

Russell M. Nelson

It really matters what you listen to. . . . Select music that will strengthen your spirit.

Romain Rolland

Everything is music for the born musician.

Rumi

We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee.

Roy Haynes

Sarah Vaughan was the Charlie Parker of the vocalists during the 1950s.

Roy Haynes

You must own it to play it.

Roy Haynes

There was a lot that was tricky about playing with [Thelonious Monk]. It's a musical language where there's really no lyrics. It's something you feel and you're hearing. It's like an ongoing conversation. You really had to listen to this guy. Cause he could play the strangest tempos, and they could be very in-between tempos on some of those compositions. You really had to listen to his arrangements and the way he would play them. On his solos, you'd really have to listen good in there. You'd have to concentrate on what you were doing as well.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sugar is not so sweet to the palate as sound to the healthy ear.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Music causes us to think eloquently.

Sid Caesar

Jazz is a beautiful woman whose older brother is a policeman.

Sid Vicious

I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

Taylor Swift

She's not a saint, and she's not what you think She's an actress, whoa She's better known for the things that she does on the mattress

Taylor Swift

I really believe we in the music industry can work together to find a way to bond technology with integrity and just really hope we can teach the younger generation the value of investment in music rather than the ephemeral consumption of it.

Taylor Swift

I've found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you're supposed to be.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.