Quotes About Music

When 'Family Guy' started, we wanted to make it more like a sitcom. And there was very little music.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

My family were all musicians. I really wasn't interested in school or anything.

Click bang, what a hang, your daddy just shot poor me.

I grew up in a musical family, but nobody was a professional musician.

When you watch your mum and dad sing and they're happy and it brings them joy, it is then a natural choice to go where the joy is. Music was always that place in our family.

I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

My brother and I grew up in a musical family. We have an older sister who sings and plays the piano. Our dad is a musician. Music was always a part of our lives.

By 1969, when I celebrated 45 years in the music business, I also had 45 people in our musical family.

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.

Music was always a big part of my family. Only a few of us had the talent - or the courage - to walk out on a stage.

My story as an artist has been about trial and error. It's been about artist development, character building, struggle, happiness and failure, family, and music.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

I'm so famous, people expect me to sell as many records as Celine Dion or Puff Daddy.

I come from musical theater, and a lot of musical theater is about accepting fantasy. I think it is more about just being open and accepting.

Playing with Queen was the biggest moment of my career. It was like living a childhood fantasy.

Any idiot, any stockbroker can get out there and live out a fantasy and pretend like he's playing music. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that.

This is a fantasy fiddle tune. The part you fantasize is the fiddle.

The incalculable winds of fantasy and music and poetry, the mere face of a girl, the song of a bird, or the sight of a horizon, are always blowing evil's whole structure away.

Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things.

If the melody is telling me this is what the song is about, then I'm sort of forced into confession, autobiography or fantasy. If I don't do that, I've hamstrung the melody.

That's the fantasy dream project, to collaborate with someone who preaches the gospel of art through music.