Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lesley Garrett

The musical heritage of Yorkshire is deep and wide.

Laura Riding

Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse.

Samuel Johnson

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Robert Mayer

I look upon myself as a musical bricklayer with architectural aspirations.

Tavis Smiley

I wanted to be a theater actress, and initially, I wanted to work in musical theater

Svetlana Alliluyeva

A sense of religion is something one is born with, like a musical ear. One can develop it, cultivate it, enrich it, but if one hasn't got its seed to begin with, no powers of the intellect, no sophistication of 'evidence' can awaken it.

Simon Le Bon

Digital music boils down the actual musical experience.

Steve Martin

I always felt the audience sorta tolerated the serious musical parts while I was doing my comedy.

Ringo Starr

Gene Autry was the most. It may sound like a joke - Go and have a look in my bedroom, It's covered with Gene Autry posters. He was my first musical influence.

Victoria Legrand

Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

Robert Fripp

Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.

Robert Fripp

The spoken form is in fact a very restrained representation of what is possible in the musical language.

Rupert Holmes

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.

Steve Goodman

Bought the Vegematic and Pocket Fisherman, too, illuminated illustrated history of Life, and Boxcar Willie.

Robbie Robertson

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

Suzi Quatro

Len and I had parted musical ways and this was one of the problems.

Tre Cool

I had trouble fitting in, in a musical sense. A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

Rick James

I decided to build up my band in Buffalo because Buffalo was where I had originally built up my own musical strength.

Sting

I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.

Steve Earle

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

Stephen Sondheim

Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten.

Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Virgil Thomson

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

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.

Warren Zevon

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

Waylon Jennings

Did ole Hank really do it this way?