Charles Gounod Quotes

Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

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• There's something about live players that you cannot get with machines: With live musicians, you can strike a groove, you can feed off each other... And, even though somebody might make a slight mistake, it's all real!

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Live
  • Real
  • Mistake

• Hanson has rapid female fans, which I'm completely proud of, but a lot of fans are a contingent that have grown up with us really - our peers. There's younger fans. More and more guys are Hanson fans, musicians or kind of guys who were into a Beatles record.

  

  Taylor Hanson Hanson
  • Up
  • Proud
  • Fans

• I grew up with all these old jazz guys in the '70s in L.A., and they grew up idolizing Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Lester Young - all of these incredible musicians.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Old
  • Jazz

• For musicians, Musikfest is the most cool event.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Cool
  • Musicians
  • Event

• I love music and I love musicians and when I hear something that's great, I always say it's like you go to a movie and you can't wait to tell your friends about it.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Movie

• Whenever I felt happy about having discovered something, the first encounter, not only with the public, with other musicians, with specialists, etc, was that they rejected it.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Happy
  • First
  • Musicians

• The artist is the consciousness of society... but musicians' role is very special.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Artist
  • Musicians

• I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Long
  • She
  • City

• I've always thought that actors wanted to be pop musicians and pop musicians wanted to be actors.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Always
  • Thought
  • Musicians

• What you learn from working with other performers and musicians is invaluable, really, and can only help you grow. I mean, if you spend your whole life focusing on yourself, you're not really learning much.

  

  Damon Albarn Gorillaz
  • Life
  • Help
  • Learning

• Artists and musicians of the Sixties were definitely into clothes.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Clothes
  • Musicians
  • Sixties

• I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Remember
  • Past

• I started taking piano lessons when I was about four years old. My parents were both musicians. So I took piano lessons. I didn't like the lessons very much, but I was enchanted by music. Music always transported me somewhere. Singing made feel good and being able to play the piano made me feel good.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Good
  • Music
  • Parents

• A lot of people still don't realize that, before Rascal Flatts, I was in a Christian band for four or five years, and I had the opportunity to work with some of the greatest pop musicians and producers in L.A. I learned a lot from Peter Wolf; he was one of my heroes growing up in the '80s. He was a producer of a lot legendary pop music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Opportunity
  • Musicians
  • Heroes

• People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Musicians
  • Flowers

• We were jazz musicians in the early days. But as soon as we brought in the DJ, the shows turned from people sitting down to dancing.

  

  Felix Riebl The Cat Empire
  • Jazz
  • Musicians
  • Days

• It's easy to get on to something like alcohol or drugs so my advice to musicians is don't lose your perspective because you will waste time in terms of years.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Advice
  • Alcohol
  • Musicians

• 'Some Kind Of Monster' is such a nightmare for any musician to watch because you're watching a band be honest to each other. Not a good idea, man!

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Honest
  • Musicians
  • Nightmare

• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Might
  • Generations
  • Jokes

• We need to replace coal with gas. We need to leave oil in the ground.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Ground
  • Gas
  • Coal

• Trust is more important than fear.

  

  Anthony Ryan
  • Important
  • Fear
  • Trust

• A storm swept the world in 1968. It started in Vietnam, then blew across Asia, crossing the sea and the mountains to Europe and beyond. A brutal war waged by the U.S. against a poor southeast Asian country was seen every night on television.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • Country
  • War

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• Bach is a colossus of Rhodes, beneath whom all musicians pass and will continue to pass. Mozart is the most beautiful, Rossini the most brilliant, but Bach is the most comprehensive: he has said all there is to say.

  

  Charles Gounod
  • Musicians
  • Bach
  • Comprehensive