Quotes of: Modern-music Keyword

Music lets you write your own checks. Don't ever forget that.

The Devil and Preston Black

Is it not love that knows how to make smooth things rough and rough things smooth?

An Equal Music

We're deaf men working as musicians; we play the music but we can't hear it.

Engleby

You must always believe that life is as extraordinary as music says it is.

The Fountain Overflows

Music is the universal language, because it is the language of the universe.

Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

Her laughter was a shiny thing, like pewter flung high in the air.

Beach Music

One can learn anything, anything at all, I thought, if provided by a gifted and passionate teacher.

Beach Music

Always, however brutal an age may actually have been, its style transmits its music only.

Andre Malraux

I grew up in a community of theatre, and I always loved musicals. From a young age, the first present I ever wanted was a video camera. For me it was a great outlet to be creative.

Christopher Egan

Being the youngest, I was a bit of a daddy's girl and sought attention from an early age by singing. I don't know where I got my voice, but ours was always a musical house.

Kiki Dee

At the age of eight, I auditioned for 'The Sound of Music' and made it through to the third round, where we all stood in a row like the Von Trapp family and had to sing.

Michelle Dockery

Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.

Paul Weller

I was involved in music, acting, and some running, but my firm wish was to become a doctor. That was the formative age when I had decided on the pattern of my career.

Roger Bannister

It wasn't until after private lessons and learning bass lines that I even noticed bass in the music I was listening to at that age. My ears were blown wide open.

Trevor Dunn

I started performing music about the age of 16. I lived in Brooklyn, New York, and this thing called the Flatbush Fair comes once a year. That was my first time on stage.

Theophilus London

I've performed solo for 20 years now, but I don't do much of it, because if you only play alone, you go crazy and out of tune and play foolish music.

Steve Lacy

I've always been fascinated with the juxtaposition of technology in music, not only in recording, but in the keyboard. It's amazing the way you can apply technology to an art form.

Geoff Downes

It's been an amazing life. It's really just been the most magical thing for me - and I have these musical friends from all walks of life.

Mavis Staples

For me music is a vehicle to bring our pain to the surface, getting it back to that humble and tender spot where, with luck, it can lose its anger and become compassion again.

Paula Cole

Music, architecture and pictures have always been my passions, and all that material wealth has meant for me, is being able to have some of the pictures I liked.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

You have to make a choice when you start to sing and decide whether you want to service the music, and be at the top of your art, or if you want to be a very popular tenor.

Alfredo Kraus