Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sully Erna

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Estelle

Success is based on music, not where you're from.

Keith Richards

Other than its sense of rhythm, it's music by the tone-deaf for the tone-deaf.

Walter Becker

Play what you enjoy! Try and find your own musical identity.

Bela Bartok

I cannot conceive of music that expresses absolutely nothing.

Bela Bartok

His pagan barbarity, his explosive and angrily defiant melancholy, his demoniacal instinct . . . these are all echoes . . . of the thousand-year-old Hungarian psyche.

Barry Mann

I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.

B. B. King

Michael Bloomfield came in after rock n roll started, and he was a great guitarist. He idolized me - I know that. What else can I say ? he was a young, excitable man. To him, drugs were plentiful, and that was no good. I talked to him like he was a son of mine. He was a great and he was gonna be greater. But he was part of the "in-crowd" and so he never got there

B. B. King

The Blues? It's the mother of American music. That's what is is - the source.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Aimer, ce n'est point nous regarder l'un l'autre, mais regarder ensemble dans la meme direction. English Translation: To love is not to look at each other, But to look together in the same direction.

Beilby Porteus

Love is something so divine, Description would but make it less; 'Tis what I feel, but can't define, 'Tis what I know but can't express

Bebe Neuwirth

I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing

C. S. Lewis

All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away.

C. S. Lewis

Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

Cecelia Ahern

Love is not a theme. It's an atmosphere, a mood.

Cecelia Ahern

Maybe love is thinking that every time your partner does or says something mundane that you want to start a Mexican wave from here to Uzbekistan in utter delight.

Cecelia Ahern

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

Carrie Underwood

I love being able to perform in front of people. I like potentially making a difference in somebody's day or somebody's life.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.

Bernadette Peters

Singing lessons are like body building for your larynx.

Carrie Underwood

I thought about deviating from that and singing other things, but then I thought, 'Well, if I don't win ... this is what I want to do after the show, so it doesn't really make sense for me to try to be something that I'm not.'

Pierce Brosnan

I have had a singing teacher in L.A. for many, many years just to work on my voice as an actor.

Charles Olson

what can we do when even the public conveyances sing? how can we go anywhere, even cross-town how get out of anywhere

Carl Sandburg

What else have I done nearly all my life than go hungry and go on singing?

Elena Roger

At the age of 15 I began my singing lessons, and once I became a professional performer, I dove into acting.

Ahmet Ertegun

The first time I heard Clyde McPhatter singing with the Dominoes at the Apollo I just fell off my chair

Bruce Willis

Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing.