Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Sri Chinmoy

The heart-flute Knows how to charm the world.

Sri Chinmoy

If you play divine music, spiritual music, then you are bound to give and get satisfaction.

Sri Chinmoy

It is music that, being the universal language, has no need to learn any particular language of the world.

Sri Chinmoy

A musician's biography is written wherever he performs; everybody hears what he is playing.

Sri Chinmoy

Music is inspiration, soulful inspiration. It inspires the human in us. Music is manifestation, fruitful manifestation. It manifests the divine in us. Music is satisfaction, supreme satisfaction. It satisfies the Pilot Supreme in us.

Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Roger McNamee

People who cost too much: manager, lawyer, publicist, label, music publisher.

Roger McGuinn

... Andres Segovia literally created the genre of classical guitar, which hadn't existed before around 1910. There was flamenco, which he borrowed from, but he actually arranged the works of Mozart and other classical composers for guitar, something that had never been done before ... Segovias' style is not slick or contrived, but it's still very clean and his timing is impeccable ... it's got a feeling of casual elegance, as if he's sitting around the house in Spain with a jug of wine, just playing from the heart.

Roger McGuinn

...it's great! I used it (Dr.Ducks Ax Wax) to restore the finish of my 370/12/RM and I love the way it turned out!..

Roger McGuinn

...Scotty Moore plays one of the first really amazing riffs in rock history on Heartbreak Hotel with Elvis Presley ... it was dangerous, it scared everybodys parents, which was part of the attraction then - as it still is now... it totally blindsided me and made me want to get a guitar and do that ...

Tiesto

I integrate music from all over the world in my sets, harmony is what my music and life are built upon.

Thomas Jefferson

If there is a gratification which I envy any people in this world it is to your country [Italy] its music. This is the favorite passion of my soul, and fortune has cast my lot in a country where it is in a state of deplorable barbarism.

Robert W. Service

Then you've a hunch what the music meant . . . hunger and night and the stars.

Robert Redford

It's a creative enterprise, just like art, just like painting, music. Creating something can be done in different categories, so to do it in film is just another expression, which is great. Because it translates so well because so many people see the work, if you're lucky.

Rob Sheffield

When you stick a song on a tape, you set it free.

Rob Sheffield

There are all kinds of mix tapes. there is always a reason to make one.

Rob Sheffield

The times you lived through, the people you shared those times with — nothing brings it all to life like an old mix tape. It does a better job of storing up memories than actual brain tissue can do. Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they can add up to the story of a life.

Rob Sheffield

When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other.

Rob Brown

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres...

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.

Voltaire

The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them.

Voltaire

It is as impossible to translate poetry as it is to translate music.

William C. Bryant

Music is not merely a study, it is an entertainment; wherever there is music there is a throng of listeners.

William Butler Yeats

Poetry and music I have banished, But the stupidity Of root, shoot, blossom or clay Makes no demand. I bend my body to the spade Or grope with a dirty hand.