Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Tony Bennett

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Tony Bennett

Just give a drum roll, announce my name & I come out & sing. I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.

Tony Bennett

I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different.

Tony Bennett

To work is to feel alive.

Simon Rattle

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Simon Le Bon

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

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.

Thomas Carlyle

One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Thomas Carlyle

The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!

Thomas Carlyle

All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!

Thomas Carlyle

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Tony Levin

Like many musicians, I don't look back much... only concentrate on what music I'm doing, and occasionally look ahead.

Tommy Lee

When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.

Tom Wopat

It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.

Tom Waits

The piano has been drinking, not me.

Tom Waits

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

Steve Martin

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Steve Martin

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

Stephen King

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

Stendhal

I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

Stanley Crouch

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

Simon Cowell

I've always treated the music business as a business.

Simon Cowell

The artists who endure are the ones who stay focused even after they have reached the top of their profession.

Scott Weiland

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

Reese Witherspoon

Even people that know Johnny Cash's music really well and know that he was married don't really know that much about June Carter. So finding out about her really helped to inform my performance and to bring her to the front in a way that she has never been before.

Tiny Tim

I'd love to see Christ come back to crush the spirit of hate and make men put down their guns. I'd also like just one more hit single.

Tipper Gore

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Tina Yothers

The music and everything we're doing on the stage and on television backs itself up. If that's what gets people's curiosity going or brings their attention to us, that's fine.

Tina Yothers

The people that watch or buy music or listen to TV, I don't think they separate the two as much as the people that are in charge of the production of it.

Tina Yothers

Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

Tinie Tempah

Being able to travel the world is pretty cool. There are places that I've always wanted to go to but being able to go there as somebody who's a musician and is recognised as one is cool.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.