“I told my parents that when I grew up, I wanted to be a musician. They said it had to be one or the other”
― B.B. King
― B.B. King
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
― Bob Marley
― Bob Marley
“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo
― Victor Hugo
“And, in the end
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney
The love you take
is equal to the love you make.”
― Paul McCartney
“People haven't always been there for me but music always has.”
― Taylor Swift
― Taylor Swift
“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.”
― Albert Einstein
― Albert Einstein
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
― Frank Zappa
― Frank Zappa
“If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― Kurt Vonnegut
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC”
― Kurt Vonnegut
“Ah, music," he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!”
― J.K. Rowling
― J.K. Rowling
“Disco is to music what etch-a-sketch is to art”
― Jimmy Buffett
― Jimmy Buffett
“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven
― Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can't.”
― Johnny Depp
― Johnny Depp
“To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable.”
― Aaron Copeland
― Aaron Copeland
“Music is the universal language of mankind.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.
I told them this story:
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits
In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day.”
― Tom Waits
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.”
― Tom Waits
― Tom Waits
“A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence.”
― Leopold Stokowski
― Leopold Stokowski
“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman
― Emma Goldman
“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 Seinfeld
― Jerry Seinfeld
“I just can't listen to any more Wagner, you know...I'm starting to get the urge to conquer Poland.”
― Woody Allen
― Woody Allen
“Richard Wagner's music is a lot better than it sounds.”
― Mark Twain
― Mark Twain
“For those of you in the cheap seats I'd like ya to clap your hands to this one; the rest of you can just rattle your jewelry!”
― John Lennon
“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa
“Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.”
― Frank Zappa
― Frank Zappa
“I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.”
― John Barrowman
― John Barrowman
“Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot.”
― Ellen DeGeneres
― Ellen DeGeneres