Famous Music Saying

Famous Music Saying

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

There is two kinds of music, the good and bad. I play the good kind.
Louis Armstrong

You don't need any brains to listen to music.
Luciano Pavarotti

Only the pure in heart can make a good soup.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy. Billy Joel

Talent works, genius creates.
Robert Schumann

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -- for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.
John Lennon

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another. Frank Zappa

All music is folk music. I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
Louis Armstrong

Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.
Gioacchino Antonio Rossini

I was a veteran before I was a teenager.
Michael Jackson

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.
Billy Joe

Rituals are important. Nowadays it's hip not to be married. I'm not interested in being hip.
John Lennon

Music is spiritual. The music business is not.
Van Morrison

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
Ludwig Van Beethoven

The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes --ah, that is where the art resides.
Artur Schnabel

A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
Igor Stravinsky

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
Frank Zappa

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.
Robert Southey



If I had a rose for every time I think of you, I would walk in my garden forever.
Anon