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"A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."Frank ZappaView Source
"A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do."Bob DylanView Source
"A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence."Leopold StokowskiView Source
"All good music can be played on a piano and still sound like a hit"Lady GagaView Source
"All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song."Louis ArmstrongView Source
"All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff."Frank ZappaView Source
"And I'll stand on the ocean until I start sinking."Bob DylanView Source
"As long as we live, there is never enough singing."Martin LutherView Source
"Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe."Douglas AdamsView Source
"But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing."Bryan FerryView Source
"Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality."Bryan WhiteView Source
"Everybody is a genius. But If you judge a fish by it's ability to climb a tree, it will live it's whole life believing that It is stupid"Albert EinsteinView Source
"For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music."Taylor SwiftView Source
"He who works with his hands is a laborer; he who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman; he who works with his hands, his head and his heart is an artist."Francis of AssisiView Source
"Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people"Warren BuffetView Source
"I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me."Bob DylanView Source
"I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland."Woody AllenView Source
"I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries."Michael JacksonView Source
"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music"Donald MillerView Source
"I see my life in terms of music."Albert EinsteinView Source
"I think I’m a vocal genius, not a musical genius. I like background vocals. I consider myself a voice, not a singer. A voice is a sound, and singing is what you do with that sound."Brian WilsonView Source
"I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird."Paul McCartneyView Source
"I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet."Ludwig von BeethovenView Source
"If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that... I believe in what I do, and I'll say it."John LennonView Source
"If I cannot fly, let me sing."Stephen SondheimView Source
"If Music is a Place — then Jazz is the City, Folk is the Wilderness, Rock is the Road, Classical is a Temple."Vera NazarianView Source
"If you are a chef, no matter how good a chef you are, it's not good cooking for yourself; the joy is in cooking for others - it's the same with music."will.i.amView Source
"If you can't sing the song when you're brushing your teeth, it's trashed."John MayerView Source
"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."J.M. BarrieView Source
"If you don't know where you are going, you might end up someplace else"Yogi BerraView Source
"If you’re going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it’s better to write with collaborators."Brian WilsonView Source
"It’s partly natural ability and watching. Instead of going to school and learning, I went to real life and learned. Experience is great."Joe RenzettiView Source
"I’m not a genius. I’m just a hard-working guy."Brian WilsonView Source
"Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny."Frank ZappaView Source
"Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music"Ronald ReaganView Source
"Life, he realize, was much like a song. In the beginning there is mystery, in the end there is confirmation, but it's in the middle where all the emotion resides to make the whole thing worthwhile."Nicholas SparksView Source
"Look at Neil Diamond. Was he the cool guy? No, he was the housewives' guy. He didn't try to be what he wasn't. He just did what he did - made great music, was a good entertainer, nice-enough guy."Michael BubleView Source
"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."James JoyceView Source
"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."Benjamin DisraeliView Source
"Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens."Maria Augusta von TrappView Source
"Music can change the world, because it can change people."BonoView Source
"Music comes to me more readily than words."Ludwig Van BeethovenView Source
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."Victor HugoView Source
"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy."Ludwig von BeethovenView Source
"Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends."Alphonse de LamartineView Source
"Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence."Robert FrippView Source
"Music is to the soul what words are to the mind."Modest MouseView Source
"Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit."Herbert SpencerView Source
"Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman."Ludwig von BeethovenView Source
"Music, at its essence, is what gives us memories. And the longer a song has existed in our lives, the more memories we have of it."Stevie WonderView Source
"My inspiration comes from the message Duke Ellington gave - you are unique, be yourself, put out that thing that is you, then use your work ethic and produce great music."Kenny BurrellView Source
"My primary emphasis is not to entertain. But if your art is boring, people will reject your message as well as your art."Larry NormanView Source
"My thesis statement would be—Bach didn't write Baroque music. He wrote great music."Chris ThileView Source
"Never underestimate a girl’s love for her favorite band. Never think even for a minute, that she won’t defend them to her death. Because it’s not just the music that makes that band her favorite. It’s the guys, the gals. It’s the fans. People whom of whic"Alex GaskarthView Source
"Number one is the voice. That’s what people respond to the most, the singer is everything."Dave CobbView Source
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."Bob MarleyView Source
"Poetry and music are very good friends. Like mommies and daddies and strawberries and cream - they go together."Nikki GiovanniView Source
"Salsa is a phenomenal way to stay fit, have a great time with your friends and listen to great music."Vanessa L. WilliamsView Source
"Simplicity is the key to brilliance"Bruce LeeView Source
"Slightly forgettable movies can sometimes make great musicals."Mark GatissView Source
"Somebody just gave me a shower radio. Thanks a lot. Do you really want music in the shower? I guess there's no better place to dance than a slick surface next to a glass door."Jerry SeinfeldView Source
"That’s the big secret. Rock and roll ain’t nothing but jazz with a hard backbeat."Keith RichardsView Source
"The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something."Sam RiversView Source
"The money is between the first and the fifth fret"Chris KentView Source
"The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between."Wolfgang Amadeus MozartView Source
"The only love affair I have ever had was with music."Maurice RavelView Source
"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."Roy AyersView Source
"The two things that will ruin an artist are success and failure. And especially in that sequence.."Derek WebbView Source
"Time ain't nothing when you're young and your soul still burns"Green On RedView Source
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."Aaron CoplandView Source
"What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?"Nick HornbyView Source
"When you play, never mind who listens to you."Robert SchumannView Source
"Where words fail, music speaks"Hans Christian AndersenView Source
"Where words leave off, music begins."Heinrich HeineView Source
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."Frank ZappaView Source
"Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid."Frank ZappaView Source
"You can’t be funky if you haven’t got a soul."Blues TetrasView Source
"You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again."Maggie StiefvaterView Source
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