Famous Musician Saying

Famous Musician Saying

Love is a thing, well, its kind of like quicksand: The more you are in it, the deeper you sink. And when it hits you, you've just got to fall.
UB40

In this world we've created Where this place that we live in a blink of an eye the darkness slips in Love lights the world Unites the love that's for eternity.
Vanessa Williams, "Love Is"

And when the storms came through They found me and you Back together And when the sun would shine It was yours and mine. Yours and mine forever.
Vanessa Williams, "Oh, How the Years Go By"

'Cause there was a time when all I did was wish You'd tell me this was love. It's not the way I hoped Or how I planned But somehow it's enough.
Vanessa Williams, "Save the Best for Last"

I write [music] as a sow piddles.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

"My sole inspiration is a telephone call from a producer."
Cole Porter

"Don't bother to look, I've composed all this already."
Gustav Mahler, to Bruno Walter who had stopped to admire mountain scenery in rural Austria.

"I would rather play Chiquita Banana and have my swimming pool than play Bach and starve."
Xavier Cugat

"[Musicians] talk of nothing but money and jobs. Give me businessmen every time. They really are interested in music and art."
Jean Sibelius, explaining why he rarely invited musicians to his home.

"The amount of money one needs is terrifying..."
Ludwig van Beethoven

"Only become a musician if there is absolutely no other way you can make a living."
Kirke Mecham, on his life as a composer

"I am not handsome, but when women hear me play, they come crawling to my feet."
Niccolo Paganini

"Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day."
Ringo Starr

"Flint must be an extremely wealthy town: I see that each of you bought two or three seats."
Victor Borge, playing to a half-filled house in Flint, Michigan.

"If one hears bad music it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
Oscar Wilde

"Critics can't even make music by rubbing their back legs together."
Mel Brooks

"life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years."
William F. Buckley, Jr.

"You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow."
Oscar Levant, explaining his way out of a speeding ticket.

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
Mark Twain

"I love Beethoven, especially the poems."
Ringo Starr

"If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder."
Walter Damrosch on Aaron Copland

"There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major."
Sergei Prokofiev

"I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to tame a lion?"
Dimitri Mitropolous

"God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way."
Arturo Toscanini to a trumpet player

"Already too loud!"
Bruno Walter at his first rehearsal with an American orchestra, on seeing the players reaching for their instruments.

"I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere."
Frederic Chopin

"When she started to play, Steinway himself came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano."
Bob Hope, on comedienne Phyllis Diller

YOUR friends today attach themselves not to you but to your purse or to some advantage they can gain through your father's kindness. When your purse is empty or when your father is no longer in power, they bid you good-bye.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
Francesco Guicciardini

Chandler: You know what's weird. Donald Duck never wore pants. But whenever he's getting out of the shower, he always put a towel around his waist. I mean, what is that about?
Friends Chandler Saying

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.
Marcus T. Cicero

Betrayal is about learning not to idealize external sources.
Linda Talley