Music Quotes

I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

Julie Andrews

Big fat hairy monkey, hands a couple of octaves wide?

Terry Pratchett

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

Bob Dylan

Conductors must give unmistakable and suggestive signals to the orchestra, not choreography to the audience.

George Szell

Hip-Hop isn't just music, it is also a spiritual movement of the blacks! You can't just call Hip-Hop a trend!

Lauryn Hill

Half the battle is selling music, not singing it. It's the image, not what you sing.

Rod Stewart

It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.

Honore de Balzac

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Harry Connick, Jr.

Music is the vapour of art.

Victor Hugo

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

William Shakespeare

Nobody was listening when I learned how to play music. But there's something about being on stage, talking to the audience, looking at them and smiling, that's always been difficult for me. I'm a lot more comfortable now, but there are still moments of awkwardness.

Norah Jones

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

Jimmy Buffett

If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.

James Taylor

I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.

Marilyn Manson

I think everything Joni Mitchell did for music was big.

Maynard James Keenan

What I was going for in the first two albums I didn't necessarily achieve. Because I was young and because it was my first time out. And the second album was such a 'quickie' sort of 'Let's just get it over with!' But the kind of music I make, there's a lot of subtlety in it. And I think it takes a couple of listens to actually really get it.

Norah Jones

I am severely distracted these days. It's hard to sit in front of the computer, uploading bad music for hours, when you have a wonderful boyfriend who treats you like a Goddess.

April Winchell

Music is hugely important to me.

Rashida Jones

Music my rampart, and my only one.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

A movie goes from several stages, from idea to script. As you continue shooting, you will make some adjustments. You're constantly adjusting. It's like a piece of music. You're constantly trying to make it better.

Robert Rodriguez