Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Vaughan

My dream is to do whatever I want without any interference from the record company.

Sarah Vaughan

There are notes between notes, you know.

Sarah McLachlan

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.

Sara Teasdale

With my singing I can make, a refuge for my spirit's sake; a house of shining words, to be my fragile immortality.

Sara Teasdale

As the waves of perfume, heliotrope, rose, Float in the garden when no wind blows, Come to us, go from us, whence no one knows; So the old tunes float in my mind, And go from me leaving no trace behind, Like fragrance borne on the hush of the wind.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

An ear for music is very different from a taste for music. I have no ear whatever; I could not sing an air to save my life; but I have the intensest delight in music, and can detect good from bad.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Samuel Johnson

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Samuel Johnson

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Sam Bush

The music has to come from bluegrass first. We always said back in the 70s that if you want to play newgrass you have to go through the school of bluegrass. You know, maybe Jack Black can make a movie now called School of Bluegrass . That would be cool.

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.

Wally Amos

I think the kazoo and chocolate-chip cookies have a lot in common. All you need is a mouth to appreciate either one.

Tom Robbins

Sounds travel through space long after their wave patterns have ceased to be detectable by the human ear: some cut right through the ionosphere and barrel on out into the cosmic heartland, while others bounce around, eventually being absorbed into the vibratory fields of earthly barriers, but in neither case does the energy succumb; it goes on forever - which is why we, each of us, should take pains to make sweet notes.

Tom Felton

In spite of what Draco is like, I really like school, and I miss it a lot when I'm filming. I've a fair idea what I want to do for my GCSEs, I will definitely be doing music.

Toby Keith

... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country executives want. Rappers are like that too .. my words come from the street, and their words come from the street. That slicked-up pop stuff doesn't come from the street, it's all pre-fab...

Toby Keith

... I like the clubs because ... we have two or three acoustic guitars up there and we're not hard-core slamming or stomping through the music. We're singing it with intricate harmonies and really showing the craftsmanship.

Toni Cade Bambara

All writers, musicians, artists, choreographers/dancers, etc., work with the stuff of their experiences. It's the translation of it, the conversion of it, the shaping of it that makes for the drama.

Tommy Shaw

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

Steve Vai

Find what you're best at and exaggerate it.

Steve Lawrence

... you can't be in the music business as long as "Steve and Edie" have, if you stink ..

Steve Lawrence

The only thing constant is change, we keep going through it not only in Las Vegas but in every part of our business and culture

Steve Lacy

In composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in 15 seconds, in improvisation you have 15 seconds.

Steve Lacy

Jazz is like wine. When it is new it's only for the experts, but when it gets older everybody wants it.

Steve Lacy

I still love the whole history of Jazz. The old things sound better than ever.

Steve Lacy

I started in New Orleans music and played all through the history of jazz.

Steve Lacy

Risk is at the heart of jazz. Every note we play is a risk.