Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ringo Starr

I'm warning you with peace and love I have too much to do. So no more fan mail. Thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed, nothing. Peace and love, peace and love.

Ringo Starr

I love that about the Beatles, that the music is still going on more than the haircut, you know.

Richie Sambora

Solos are like sex, so it's surprising to me that there aren't more guys playing them

Tim McGraw

Better than I was, more than I am And all of this happen by taking your hand And who I am now is who I wanted to be And now that we're together I'm stronger than ever I'm happy and free

Tim McGraw

I think of myself as a serious artist. Sometimes you can get in your head too much about that and forget that you have to have fun. I've been guilty in my career about that at times. But the more I thought about it, the more I thought I didn't want anybody else to have a hit with it!

Tom Stoppard

I mean, if Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at twenty-two, the history of music would have been very different. As would the history of aviation, of course.

Ville Valo

Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

Victoria Legrand

Obviously, it's great to know that your music is being listened to.

Victoria Legrand

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

Victor Hugo

Music is the vapor of art. It is to poetry what reverie is to thought, what fluid is to solid, what the ocean of clouds is to the ocean of waves.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

Victor Hugo

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.

Victor Borge

...the elephant smoked too much.

Victor Borge

They say that Nero started the fire himself because he needed a suitable backdrop for his concert.

Victor Borge

It (the double-clarinet in India) was primarily used for snake charming, since the snake would do almost anything to get the Indians to stop playing it.

Victor Borge

Well, all's fair in love, war and fooling the critics.

Victor Borge

The conductor is a peculiar person. He turns his back on his friends in the audience, shakes a stick at his players in the orchestra, and then wonders why nobody loves him.

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.

Richard Strauss

Never look at the brass - it only encourages them.

Richard Wagner

The immoral profession of musical criticism must be abolished.

Richard Wagner

I know absolutely nothing about music.