Famous Quotes & Sayings

Will Allison

For me to be able to reach out to other people throughout all this has been great, people want to hear from me and hear my music right now so it keeps me happy. I cherish every moment. I have a different perspective on everything now. In the end, I think it will make me a better person.

Walter Savage Landor

O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream.

Walter Savage Landor

There is delight in singing, though none hear beside the singer.

Walter Savage Landor

Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

Walter Savage Landor

The Siren waits thee, singing song for song.

Yngwie Malmsteen

The only thing I ever really wanted was a Strat .. I started playing guitar after seeing Jimi Hendrix on TV the day he died...then I got Deep Purples' Fireball album which was also a big influence .. I have a collection of more than 200 of them that includes Strats from every year since March 1954 - the first month the Strat was made

Yngwie Malmsteen

I've always been heavily influenced by classical music, mostly by baroque music.

Yngwie Malmsteen

... Ritchie Blackmore was a huge early influence on me, but after that I had to find my own way ... Johann Sebastian Bach was probably the most influential guy ever on me ... Vivaldi, Beethoven and eventually Paganini ... all of a sudden I was thinking in all these other areas, instead of blues riffs ...

Yo-Yo Ma

Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.

Yo-Yo Ma

Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.

Yogi Berra

Anyone who understands Jazz knows that you can't understand it. It's too complicated. That's what's so simple about it.

Woody Herman

We might as well swing boys, because Stravinsky cuts us all.

Woody Guthrie

A song ain't nothing but a conversation fixed up to where you can talk it over and over without getting tired of it.

Woody Allen

Psychoanalyses is like music lessons, for 5 years you do not notice any progress and suddenly you can play the piano.

William Wordsworth

When his veering gait And every motion of his starry train Seem governed by a strain Of music, audible to him alone.

William Wordsworth

He murmurs near the running brooks A music sweeter than their own.

William Wordsworth

Sweetest melodies.Are those that are by distance made more sweet.

William Wordsworth

Bright gem instinct with music, vocal spark.

William Wordsworth

But hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity.

William Shakespeare

If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shenstone

The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.

William Shatner

I love the musicality of words.

William Gilmore Simms

It is a bird-flight of the soul, when the heart declares itself in song. The affections that clothe themselves with wings are passions that have been subdued to virtues.

Sarah Silverman

I first did stand-up when I was 17, and then I passed out fliers for a comedy club (in New York City) and I got onstage whenever I could. And musical theater went out the window as soon as I started doing stand-up.

Sappho

I took my lyre and said: come now, my heavenly tortoise shell: become a speaking instrument.

Sara Bareilles

Music is catharsis for me.

Samuel Pepys

Music and woman I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is.

Samuel Rogers

And the Sabbath bell, That over wood and wild and mountain dell Wanders so far, chasing all thoughts unholy With sounds most musical, most melancholy.

William F. Buckley, Jr.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

William Faulkner

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

William Faulkner

He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

Willard Van Orman Quine

The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.

Warren Haynes

I also generally play slide guitar in standard tuning, which enables me to switch back and forth between using the slide and fretting notes and chords conventionally without having to relearn the fretboard, as one must do when playing in an open tuning.