Famous Musician Quotes

I believe in the spiritual warfare. There are people who pick sides. The lord of this world is Satan. You can do a deal with him to have all the pleasures of this world. You can go to youtube and search Illuminati, and you'll see stuff you wouldn't believe about very famous musicians and their musicians that are very clearly Satanic images.

There was a very famous musician in our family. He was a great violinist, an internationally known teacher. He was Leopold Auer.

Your talking to someone who really understands rock music.

I don't want you to play me a riff that's going to impress Joe Satriani; give me a riff that makes a kid want to go out and buy a guitar and learn to play.

If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Music is indeed the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.

You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.

Country music is three chords and the truth.

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

This is Graceland. Home of the most famous musician in the world.” “Michael Jackson lived here?” “No, dummy,” Carter said. “Elvis Presley.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department.

Be a famous musician. Be a famous act or. Be a famous write r. Be a famous basketball player. Be famous.

I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

I've outdone anyone you can name - Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

This whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, “Is there a meaning to music?” My answer to that would be, “Yes.” And “Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?” My answer to that would be, “No.”

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Where words leave off, music begins.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Music is the universal language of mankind.

If music be the food of love, play on.

I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're really boring to read.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.

Sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, and love belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality.

Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words.

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.