Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Virginia Graham

There are some composers - at the head of whom stands Beethoven - who not only do not know when to stop but appear to stop many times before they actually do.

Virgil Thomson

Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down.

Virgil Thomson

Musicians own music because music owns them.

Virgil Thomson

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Music itself is not going to let you down.

W. H. Auden

A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

W. H. Auden

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

W. H. Auden

The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

William Congreve

Music has charms to soothe a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. I've read that things inanimate have moved, and, as with living souls, have been inform'd, by magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Cowper

Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds, Exhilirate the spirit, and restore The tone of languid nature.

William Cowper

There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.

Van Cliburn

An artist can only be evaluated after he's dead. At the 11th hour he might do something that will eclipse everything else.

Van Morrison

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Van Morrison

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

Van Morrison

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Van Morrison

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

Van Morrison

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.

Tyga

I could be going through something in my life that I might not want to talk about in my music because my music is the way that I escape some of those things.

Twyla Tharp

I think of music as fuel, its spectrum of energy governed by tempi, volume, and heart.

Twyla Tharp

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

Warren Zevon

Well, I don't think it ever did, but in the early '60s I got interested in folk music.

Warren Zevon

Here's a story that I really want to tell about Bo Diddley at the OK corral.

Warren Zevon

It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies... I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.

Waylon Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way?

Vladimir Nabokov

My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music.