I don't know anything about music. In my line you
don't have to.
- Elvis Presley (1935-1977)
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's
your only music.
- John Keats
There is always music amongst the trees in the
garden, but our hearts must be very quiet to hear
it.
- M. Aumonier
Look at the stars sometimes. They are only notes
They are music.
- Pat Conroy
Great art is as irrational as great music. It is
mad with its own loveliness.
- George Jean Nathan
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you
feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
- E.Y. Harburg (Edgar Yipsel) (1898 - 1981)
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies
together.
- Anais Nin
Music that gentlier on the spirit lies Than tired
eyelids upon tired eyes.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Mandolin is the bottom four strings of the
guitar, backwards...so a person with dyslexia has
no problem learning to play the Mandolin.
- Steve Goodman
It seems to me that those songs that have been any
good, I have nothing much to do with the writing
of them. The words have just crawled down my
sleeve and come out on the page.
- Joan Baez
Love is like a violin. The music may stop now and
then, but the strings remain forever.
- June Masters Bacher
Without music, life is a journey through a desert
- Pat Conroy
Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or
am I miserable because listen to pop music?
- John Cusack (Rob Gordon)
High Fidelity
Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm
imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody
imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and
harmony imposes compatibility upon the
incongruous.
- Yehudi Menuhin
Too many pieces of music finish too long after the
end.
- Igor Stravinsky
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to
denigrate those who do. And for the people who
like country music, denigrate means 'put down'
- Bob Newhart
Approach your guitar intelligently, and if there
are limits, don't deny them. Work within your
restrictions. Somethings you can do better than
others, some things you can't do as well. So
accentuate the positive.
- Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 - June 30, 2001)
Mister Guitar in Zen Guitar
It takes a lot of devotion and work, or maybe I
should say play, because if you love it, that's
what it amounts to I haven't found any shortcuts,
and I've been looking for a long time.
- Chet Atkins (June 20, 1924 - June 30, 2001)
Mister Guitar in Zen Guitar
It is only by introducing the young to great
literature, drama and music, and to the excitement
of great science that we open to them the
possibilities that lie within the human spirit --
enable them to see visions and dream dreams.
- Eric Anderson
I been doing the same things as in my younger
days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an
old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well,
what happened? Have they just thought up the real
John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I
won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder
what happened.
- John Lee Hooker (1917-2001)
I improvised, crazed by the music. . . . Even my
teeth and eyes burned with fever. Each time I
leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I
regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.
- Josephine Baker (1906-1975)
French dancer
The trouble with real life is that there's no
danger music.
- Jim Carrey from "The Cable Guy"
It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you
have to do is touch the right key at the right
time and the instrument will play itself.
- J.S. Bach
Most of us go to our grave with our music still
inside of us.
- Unknown
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of
life: music and cats.
- Albert Schweitzer
(01/14/1875-1965)
Music expresses that which cannot be put into
words and that which cannot remain silent.
- Victor Hugo
Where words fail, music speaks.
- Hans Christian Andersen
(1805-1875)
Danish short-story writer, poet
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space
between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
- Maya Angelou
All the sounds of the earth are like music.
- Oscar Hammerstein (1895-1960)
It had never occurred to me before that music and
thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say
music is another way of thinking, or maybe
thinking is another kind of music.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
In music one must think with the heart and feel
with the brain.
- George Szell
never Bb
never B#
always Bnatural (with little natural sign)
- Unknown
You are the music while the music lasts.
- T. S. Eliot
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are
doomed if you don't try.
- Beverly Sills
Chairman of the Board, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., and opera singer
My dear fellow, my whole life is moved by the
principle that the one thing which is more
important than peace is music. It is because I
believe that I am poor.
- Tempest-Tost, by Robertson Davies
Time don't let it slip away,
Raise your drinking glass
Here's to yesterday
- -Aerosmith
Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when
you riding thru the ruts. Don't complicate your
mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy.
Don't bury your thoughts. Put your vision to
reality, Yeah!
- BOB MARLEY
"from the song Wake up and Live"
Don't forget your history
Know your destiny
In the abundance of water
The fool is thirsty
Rat race, rat race, rat race
- BOB MARLEY
"from the song Rat Race"
"if young love is just a game i must have missed the kick-off"
-Blink-182
"Shut up when I'm talking to you"
-Linkin Park
"Don't ask me, I don't know"
-Ozzy Osbourne
"Sleep now in the fire"
-Rage Against The Machine
"She smokes a pack a day-wait that's me but anyway, she doesn't care a thing about that hey, she thinks i'm beautiful"
-Train
"When that whole mad season comes around"
-Matchbox 20
"Fight like a brave don't be afraid no one can tell you, you got to be a brave"
-Red Hot Chili Peppers