Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victor Borge

Mendelssohn never wrote any Water Music. However, he wrote the Scotch Symphony, which is even better, or at least stronger.

Victor Borge

I know [canned music] makes chickens lay more eggs and factory workers produce more. But how much more can they get out of you on an elevator?

Victor Borge

Clarinets, like lawyers, have cases, mouthpieces, and they need a constant supply of hot air in order to function.

Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Robert Fripp

Music is the cup which holds the wine of silence.

Robert Fripp

What we hear is the quality of our listening.

Robert Fripp

Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.

Robert Fripp

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Robert Fripp

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

Robert Fripp

If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on?

Robert Frost

Far in the pillared dark Thrush music went- Almost like a call to come in To the dark and lament. But no, I was out for stars: I would not come in. I meant not even if asked, And I hadn't been.

Robert Frost

I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise So close to our dwelling place?

Robert Frost

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

Walt Whitman

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

Saul Bellow

I must play the instrument I've got.

Sarah Dessen

Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.

Ronnie Wood

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

Ronnie Wood

Back in those days, all us skinny white British kids were trying to look cool and sound black. And there was Hendrix, the ultimate in black cool. Everything he did was natural and perfect.

Ronnie Wood

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

Ronnie Wood

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.

Roger Scruton

Music exists when rhythmic, melodic or harmonic order is deliberately created, and consciously listened to, and it is only language-using, self-conscious creatures ... who are capable of organizing sounds in this way, either when uttering them or when perceiving them. We can hear music in the song of the nightingale, but it is music that no nightingale has heard.

Roger Waters

For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set.

Rod Stewart

I don't enjoy songwriting.

Rod Stewart

You can keep your Streisands.

Roberta Flack

Music comes first from my heart, and then goes upstairs to my head where I check it out.

Robert Wyatt

I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really.

Robert Wyatt

There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.

Robert Schumann

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

Robert Schumann

When you play, never mind who listens to you.

Robert Schumann

Talent works, genius creates.

Robert Plant

I owe everything to the musicians I work with.

Robert Lopez

Whenever Disney asks if you want to do a fairy tale musical, you say yes.

Sarah Vaughan

Judy Garland was the singer I most wanted to sound like then, not to copy, but to get some of her soul and purity. A wonderful young voice.