Quotes about Music
I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: Is it going to happen this time? You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.
- Elton John
Hearing Sonny Rollins live... that was really amazing. There were so many things that really blew me away at that time [of schooling].
- Jon Gordon
For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
- Butch Trucks
There is nothing to keeping a band together. You simply have to have a gimmick, and the gimmick I use is to pay them money!
- Duke Ellington
It may be that when the angels go about their task praising God, they play only Bach. I am sure, however, that when they are together en famille they play Mozart.
- Karl Barth
I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth
- Pope Benedict XVI
Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure—and make music that wasn't there before.
- Barack Obama
Ultimately it was rap that got my head in the right place, two songs especially: Jay-Z's "My 1st Song" and Eminem's "Lose Yourself.
- Barack Obama
The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo.
- Mark Twain
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit the very wood that was hollowed with knives?
- Khalil Gibran
I've never been more moved by a voice than I have been by Roy Orbison. I loved him personally, and I loved his voice. I think of him often and frequently listen to his songs.
- Dolly Parton
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
- Jon Bon Jovi