Quotes About Music

One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement.

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.

I'm not a rich man, and Greg Lake is certainly not. I don't know how he can survive. I don't know how he can be that suicidal. But having said that, I'd love to be there to help Greg.

Men, like musical instruments, seem made to be played upon.

Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the most sublime noise that has ever penetrated into the ear of man.

I suppose that it doesn't matter whether a song is written or sung by a man or a woman. If the sentiment is there, it captures the audience.

The grandeur of man lies in song, not in thought.

I would like to be remembered as a man who brought an innovation to popular singing.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

When I was a young man, I was a baritone, very far from possessing the whole range of the tenor then.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

Musical practice is too young an art in America to warrant a search for men with a conductor's gift.

There's music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill; There's music in all things, if men had ears; The earth is but the music of the spheres.

He who understand my music will remain free from the miseries that the other men are dragging with them .

In that long sequence, when Lawrence enters in the desert to rescue a lost man, Lean listened the music I wrote and wanted to extend the scene to let my work stay completely.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

Music is the poor man's Parnassus.

Kelly, Kelly, Kelly. I love your voice man, you give me chills... Brilliant.

Lord, what music hast thou provided for Thy saints in heaven, when Thou affordest bad men such music on earth!

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.

Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

People still come up to me and ask me to sign their records. That's right, records! Man, they don't even make records no more!