Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Young Jeezy

All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

Yoko Ono

Music is like my security blanket.

Yoko Ono

All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Wynton Marsalis

I wanted to make somebody feel like Coltrane made me feel, listening to it.

Wynton Marsalis

No particular music makes me feel nostalgic. If it's great, it just keeps me in the present moment. That level of music is like a classic story, like the Iliad-something so perfect it can never be old.

Wynton Marsalis

We're blues people. And blues never lets tragedy have the last word.

Wynton Marsalis

Nothing else will ever capture the democratic process in sound as perfectly as Jazz.

Wynton Marsalis

A beat is a moment in the life a groove.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is the power of now. There is no script. It's conversation. The emotion is given to you by musicians as they make split-second decisions to fulfill what they feel the moment requires.

Wynton Marsalis

Jazz music is the power of now.

Wynton Marsalis

In Jazz, improvisation isn't a matter of just making any ol' thing up. Jazz, like any language, has its own grammer and vocabulary. There's no right or wrong, just some choices that are better than others.

Wynton Marsalis

Don't settle for style. Succeed in substance.

Wynton Marsalis

How great musicians demonstrate a mutual respect and trust on the bandstand can alter your outlook on the world and enrich every aspect of your life, understanding what it means to be a global citizen in the most modern sense.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

It is a mistake to think that the price of my art has become easy to me.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Writing music is my one and only passion and joy.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Melody is the essence of music. I compare a good melodist to a fine racer, and counterpointists to hack post-horses; therefore be advised, let well alone and remember the old Italian proverb: Chi sa più, meno sa— Who knows most, knows least.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I cannot write in verse, for I am no poet. I cannot arrange the parts of speech with such art as to produce effects of light and shade, for I am no painter. Even by signs and gestures I cannot express my thoughts and feelings, for I am no dancer. But I can do so by means of sounds, for I am a musician....

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

If only the whole world could feel the power of harmony.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.

Yehudi Menuhin

Music creates order out of chaos.

Yehudi Menuhin

To play great music, you must keep your eyes on a distant star.

Yehudi Menuhin

Music lives and breathes to tell us who we are and what we face. It is a path between ourselves and the infinite.

Yehudi Menuhin

Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

Zinedine Zidane

Music was important. Football was the easy part.