Quotes about music
music advice soul
[Advice to Bessie Smith:] Let your soul do the singin'. Ma Rainey
music past my-future
I can't tell my future, so I'm going to tell my past. Ma Rainey
musician titles
Musician' is not a very respected title. I'm not a musician. Lydia Lunch
musical actors different
As a movie-goer, I really like to watch all different kinds of movies and, as an actor, I always feel like I could do pretty much anything but a musical. Luke Wilson
music song giving
A song is a mantra, something you repeat over and over. We need peace, we need giving, we need love, we need unity. I want the whole world to sing this song. Michael Jackson
music song rivers
People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song. Michael Jackson
music bed lovers
Music is like a lover that I can't commit to, but I seem to always find myself in bed with. Meshell Ndegeocello
music men virginia
We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency. Mark Twain
musical fifteen talent
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. Mark Twain
music witty humorous
Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. Mark Twain
music play gentleman
A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the banjo and doesn't. Mark Twain
musical language speak
I feel that I speak the musical language. Marsha Norman
music thinking people
When radio stations started playing music the record companies started suing radio stations. They thought now that people could listen to music for free, who would want to buy a record in a record shop? But I think we all agree that radio stations are good stuff. Niklas Zennstrom
musical way chemistry
Personal chemistry forges the way for musical chemistry. Nikki Sixx
music elude spit
I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably ... Nick Hornby
music song pain
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. Nick Hornby
music firsts records
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? Nick Hornby
music heart people
Many people forget that Jazz, no matter what form it takes, must come from the heart as well as the mind. Mary Lou Williams
musical band agents
I wonder what an agent would do if he had to travel with the band he's booking. Mary Lou Williams
music two adjectives
I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective. Mark Twain
music hypocrisy bully
Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully. Mark Twain
music men artist
Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac. Marian Keyes
musical-ability video youtube
Unless you had a popular video on YouTube or could perform shows in front of thousands, musical ability meant nothing. Nicholas Sparks
music nature humanity
The still, sad music of humanity. John Greenleaf Whittier
music horny want
Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny. Patti Smith
music-business flawed appease
I'm not saying I wasn't flawed or amateurish. But you can never say I did anything to appease the music business. Patti Smith
musical broadway rasputin
I'm hoping to do a Broadway musical on the life of Rasputin. He's someone I can definitely identify with. Ozzy Osbourne
musician ham
I'm not a musician - I'm a ham. Ozzy Osbourne
musical scene cycles
Every musical scene has a cycle. Paul Epworth
music song people
Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has. Mary J. Blige
music wisdom failure
When music fails to agree to the ear, to soothe the ear and the heart and the senses, then it has missed the point. Maria Callas
music world fans
I'm a fan of music from all over the world. Michael Winterbottom
music magic form
Music is the strongest form of magic. Marilyn Manson