Thursday, March 3, 2011

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

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a guy sitting down at an instrument.
Aimee Mann
The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
Karl Lagerfeld

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.
Gustav Mahler

The wise musicians are those who play what they can master.
Duke Ellington
The advice I am giving always to all my students is above all to study the music profoundly... music is like the ocean, and the instruments are little or bigger islands, very beautiful for the flowers and trees.
Andres Segovia


One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley

Secretly, I wanted to look like Jimi Hendrix, but I could never quite pull it off.
Bryan Ferry
My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil.
Ray Charles
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Music's not like becoming a doctor, who can walk into a community and find people who need him.
Charlie Byrd

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
Gary Wright

My father used to sing to me in my mother's womb. I think I can name about any tune in two beats.
Yancy Butler
Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.
John Ruskin



Music is the shorthand of emotion.
Leo Tolstoy

Music is the soul of language.
Max Heindel

Music is very spiritual, it has the power to bring people together.
Edgar Winter

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Thomas Carlyle

Music should be your escape.
Missy Elliot
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
Christian Nestell Bovee


Music is something that always lifts my spirits and makes me happy, and when I make music I always hope it will have the same effect on whoever listens to it.
Aaron Carter


Music is my religion.
Jimi Hendrix
Music is intended and designed for sentient beings that have hopes and purposes and emotions.
Jacques Barzun


Music is always changing and the changes are unpredictable.
Billy Sheehan

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.
John Lennon

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.
Paul Simon
Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.
Herbie Hancock

Music has charms to sooth a savage breast, to soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
William Congreve
It is essential to do everything possible to attract young people to opera so they can see that it is not some antiquated art form but a repository of the most glorious music and drama that man has created.
Bruce Beresford


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.
Benjamin Britten


If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare
I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed.
B. B. King

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.
Gustav Mahler



I was growing up listening to Queen. Freddie Mercury threw those incredible melodies into his songs.
Gary Cherone
I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water.
Ray Charles

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw

I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley


Everywhere in the world, music enhances a hall, with one exception: Carnegie Hall enhances the music.
Isaac Stern

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.
Reba McEntire
Composers shouldn't think too much - it interferes with their plagiarism.
Howard Dietz


All music is beautiful.
Billy Strayhorn
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Jean Cocteau
"Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability."
Titus Maccius Plautus
"The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us."
Eric Hoffer
"Well I am certainly wiser than this man. It is only too likely that neither of us has any knowledge to boast of; but he thinks that he knows something which he does not know, whereas I am quite conscious of my ignorance. At any rate it seems that I am wiser than he is to this small extent, that I do not think that I know what I do not know."
Socrates
I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.
Aaliyah

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.
Aaliyah

I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
Aaliya
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
Aaliyah


"Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom."
Calvin Coolidge

"Well, me don't swim too tough so me don't go in the water too deep."
Bob Marley

"Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one."
Turkish Proverbs
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
Titus Maccius Plautus

"We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before."
James Adams
When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.
Henny Youngman


"Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]"
Bible Bible
Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
Khalil Gibran


It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington


"It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Henry David Thoreau
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri

How goodness heightens beauty!
Milan Kundera

I can't live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
Traci Bingham


'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
Richard Chamberlain


"More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Woody Allen
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet


Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
Munshi Premchand

Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume

Beauty is a fragile gift.
Ovid


"Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness."
Stephen R. Covey
"We need you, we need your youth, your strength, and your idealism, to help us make right what is wrong."
Ronald Reagan
"It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it."
A. Hodge
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe


A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith


A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats


famous qoutes

A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson