Music Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Song, Hurt, Healing

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

  A. J. McLean

  Love, Thank You, Thanksgiving

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.

  Pat Metheny

  People, Personality, Suits

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• I know the Bible is inspired because it inspires me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Christian, Inspire

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• The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

  Van Morrison

  Goes On, Jazz

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• A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Pieces, Compromise

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• Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Single, Men, Agency

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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• When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket.

  Don Rickles

  Kissing, Mind, Pockets

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

  Gioachino Rossini

  Funny, Humor, Lovely

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• Music is a means of giving form to our inner feelings, without attaching them to events or objects in the world.

  George Santayana

  Mean, Giving, Feelings

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.134, Рипол Классик

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• Music is essentially useless, as is life.

  George Santayana

  Musician, Useless, Music Is

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• Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.

  Tupac Shakur

  Hero, Homeboys, Industry

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable.

  Tupac Shakur

  New York, New Day, Life Is Hard

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When I was studying... there weren't any black concert pianists. My choices were intuitive, and I had the technique to do it. People have heard my music and heard the classic in it, so I have become known as a black classical pianist.

  Nina Simone

  People, Choices, Black

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• You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.

  Frank Sinatra

  Baby, Pain, Secret Love

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• My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I'm still a virgin in a lot of ways. I'm not used to being shot down for no reason.

  Will Smith

  Skins, Way, Reason

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• I think no woman I have had ever gave me so sweet a moment, or at so light a price, as the moment I owe to a newly heard musical phrase.

  Stendhal

  Sweet, Thinking, Light

  Stendhal (1952). “To the happy few: selected letters of Stendhal [pseud.]”

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• I don't enjoy songwriting.

  Rod Stewart

  Enjoy, Songwriting

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• I'm not homosexual, I'm not hetrosexual, I'm just sexual.

  Michael Stipe

  Homosexual

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• I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

  Peter Ustinov

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

  Dear Me (1977) ch. 3

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• I'm not vicious really. I consider myself to be kindhearted. I love my mum.

  Sid Vicious

  Vicious, Vicious Circles, Mum

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• I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.

  Eberhard Weber

  People, Sound, Interpretation

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• One time I introduced my orchestra as the Shampoo Music Makers instead of the Champagne Music Makers.

  Lawrence Welk

  Orchestra, Shampoo, Makers

  Lawrence Welk, Bernice McGeehan (1973). “Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk”

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• On the stage of the Italian Terrace Room in the William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1938 ... the place where Champagne Music was born.

  Lawrence Welk

  Pittsburgh, Hospitality, Born

  "Wunnerful, Wunnerful: The Autobiography of Lawrence Welk".

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• Country Music is great music because it really comes from real life experiences. It is such a great haven for reality.

  Bryan White

  Country, Real, Life Experience

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