Quotations
'There's a lot of mathematics in music. It's all in groups of eight, mate, y'know. The one thing that I may have in common with John is that the subject matter I do know, the driving part of my life, my work life, there's a point where structure and scaffolding is left behind and intuition takes over. That's the difference between John and the next 100 mathematicians. He's fully prepared to leave the scaffolding behind and get into the ether of the equation and find the answer quicker. The bane of his existence, however, is finding the proof.'
Russell Crowe
The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops.
Robert Helpman
I love listening to other musicians and seeing what they do to gain their distinctive respective sounds and edge.
Bill Frisell
The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
Igor Stravinsky
By reading the scriptures I am so renewed that all nature seems renewed around me and with me. The sky seems to be a pure, a cooler blue, the trees a deeper green. The whole world is charged with the glory of God and I feel fire and music under my feet.
Thomas Merton
We can all make music individually. But we are smart enough to know that the music we make together is far better.
Peter Buck
Music is not just something that moves you, it is something that has the power to change you, and that is very powerful indeed.
Hank Jones
The music throbbed in a voice of singular and delicate power; the air was resonant with melody, love and pain. The meanest Italian in the gallery far up beneath the ceiling, the most exalted of the land in the boxes and the stalls, leaned indulgently forward, to be swept by this sweet storm of song.
Gilbert Parker
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music.
John Keats
I bought it [hit me with your rhythm stick] because it was an effing great song.
It brings back good memories, like all music the song stands the test of time. I would buy it today.
Luke Goss
Einstein because he was so intelligent so he'd be fascinating, and Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison because they're music legends [ideal dinner party guests]
Sandi Thom
For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.
Paula Cole
In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.
Franz Liszt
I enjoy dirt bike riding, reading classic literature, impressionist art, traveling, and music.
Leeann Tweeden
Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.
Paul Westerberg
Music can't change the world.
Bob Geldof
I want to keep making positive music that not only inspires me but everyone else out there to have hope in what they want to strive for.
Bryan White
He orchestrated the folk music of cricket [W G Grace]
Neville Cardus
Gospel music is the purest thing there is on this earth.
Elvis Presley
Once you're successful with a certain kind of music, it's hard not to have faith in it as a means to stay successful.
Roberta Flack
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.
George Eliot
I'm a musician so you have to bear with me from time to time when I get into one of my more creative moods!
Chad Hugo
Music is all that I can do, I can't say that there is anything else that I really know how to do, as it were.
Neil Finn
On fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay."
Neil Fox
A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds.
Henry Moore
I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi
I didn't plan on rock-and-roll. I wanted to learn jazz; I got to know some people doing rock-n-roll with jazz, and I thought I could make some money playing music.
Robby Krieger
Music is the pleasure the human mind experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Music is at once the product of feeling and knowledge.
Alban Berg
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.
Robert Browning
I think I was first awakened to musical exploration by Dizzy Gillespie and Bird. It was through their work that I began to learn about musical structures and the more theoretical aspects of music.
John Coltrane
I don't know if he [Robbie Williams] would come through the other end [of going through what he went through].
On a musical level, I know how much it keeps him together, doing this and being successful.
Gary Barlow
First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
Carlos Santana
Jazz music is a special skill that has brought pleasure to millions throughout the world.
Benny Green
My music is best understood by children and animals.
Igor Stravinsky
Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
Ray Charles
I'm very keen on country music - Dolly Parton is sensational.
Joan Bakewell
Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
Howard Stringer
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
Stanley Kubrick
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
Charles Baudelaire
I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. [Including music?]
Billy Ray Cyrus
Musically I wanted to explore my songwriting, branching out into my music. I’ve been playing blues since I started, and I wanted to go in more of a soul, R&B direction.
Jonny Lang
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