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I'll tell you what I would do in a shot if I could. I would sing in the barbershop quartet in The Music Man. -- Ned Beatty
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Speaking of River City in The Music Man & his home town, Mason City, Iowa: I didn't have to make up anything. I simply remembered Mason City as closely as I could. -- Meredith Willson
I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music Man' if there hadn't been a film where he played the part. I just heard how great he was on Broadway way before my time. -- John Lloyd Young
Regarding the current Broadway revival of The Music Man, Jay Nordlinger wrote: There will always be those who sniff that the show is "feel good"-but, oh, it feels good to feel good. And the main reason The Music Man feels so good is that it is good-a great American musical. -- Meredith Willson
I often think about my Music Man guitars being 100 million percent tailored to my needs as a player and how lucky I am. -- John Petrucci
I've been fortunate to work with companies that I endorse because I love their gear. Whether Music Man, Dunlop, or DiMarizo to me these companies have supported me in such a way that's invaluable. -- John Petrucci
I couldn't live without my music, man. Or me mum. -- Robbie Williams
Blue jean baby, LA lady, seamstress for the band. Pretty eyed, pirate smile, you'll marry a music man. Ballerina, you must have seen her dancing in the sand. -- Elton John
I'm gonna go down in history as being one of the best music men and businessmen in entertainment ... The people that I'm going to be greater than are Steven Spielberg, David Geffen and Clive Davis. -- Puff Daddy
When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you? -- Jim Jarmusch
Music, to me, is the most beautiful form, and I love film because film is very related to music. It moves by you in its own rhythm... Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you? -- Jim Jarmusch
The people in Japan love jazz music, man, and also in Europe, far more than they ever did here. And that always puzzled me until I went over there to really get into it for myself and find out what it is. It's their tradition and culture, man. We've gotten away from that in America, man. We live in a country of complete fantasy. -- Milt Jackson
Music is our bidet, man. -- Tim Hensley
Bells, the poor man's only music. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Music is the poor man's Parnassus. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Music is...the coordination between man and time. -- Igor Stravinsky
Music is the best consolation for a despaired man -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The inner nature of man is the province of Music. -- Confucius
Each man has his own music bubbling up inside him. -- Louis Armstrong
Music can elevate man to new heights. Especially elevator music. -- Jarod Kintz
Music's golden tongue Flatter'd to tears this aged man and poor. -- John Keats
Music is the sole domain in which man realizes the present. -- Igor Stravinsky
When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music. -- Tina Weymouth
Now there is music from which a man can learn something. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
a man who hates music can't be trusted, I always say. -- George R. R. Martin
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent~? -- Confucius
music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man. -- Joseph Stalin
What can a man do with music who is not benevolent? -- Confucius
As a man I am flawed, but my music is perfect. -- Kanye West
Only the flint of a man's mind can strike fire in music. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
There is no truer truth obtainable by Man than comes of music -- Robert Browning
Who loves not music and the heavenly muse, That man God hates. -- John Dowland
What love is to man, music is to the arts and to mankind. -- Carl Maria von Weber
A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it. -- Thomas Beecham
Music is one of the ways that God has of beating in on man. -- Charles Ives
Glorious is the Voice of Man, and sweet is the music of the harp. -- Richard Llewellyn
Treat a sick man with the medicine and a sad man with the music. -- Amit Kalantri
Indeed, man only exists insofar as he expresses himself. Music does it in musical ideas. -- Anton Webern
The highest mission of music is to serve as a link between God and Man. -- Corinne Heline
Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not. -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide. -- Pat Conroy
I still believe that music is one of the greatest gifts that God gave to man. -- George Michael
I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing." -- Harvey Pekar
Folk music is the original melody of man; it is the musical mirror of the world. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong. -- Aaron Copland
The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest. -- Plato
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? -- Ira Gershwin
Let a man be stimulated by poetry, established by the rules of propriety, and perfected by music. -- Confucius
It is a truth forever, that where the speech of man stops short there Music's reign begins. -- Richard Wagner
They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. -- Charlie Parker
We just get up there and play rock-and-roll music, man. Everybody sweats and has a good time. -- Bobby Keys
A man in music, as one in love, either lives it or talks about it; seldom both. -- Ernst Bacon
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of woman. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Skrillex. The man is a genius and paved a new way for music and it's very inspiring. -- Christina Grimmie
Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears form the eyes of woman. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life? -- Robert Frost
It never seems to occur to people that a man might just want to write a piece of music. -- Ralph Vaughan Williams
First is the man ...and then the music. If the man is not intact, the music will not happen. -- Gino Vannelli
Every man is full of music; but it is not every man that knows how to bring it out. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Noble and manly music invigorates the spirit, strengthens the wavering man, and incites him to great and worthy deeds. -- Homer
I love indie record stores, man. I love anything that's about independence and preserving the brand of good music. -- Raheem Devaughn
Poetry, Painting & Music, the three Powers in man of conversing with Paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. -- William Blake
A wise man seeks by music to strengthen his soul: the thoughtless one uses it to stifle his fears. -- Confucius
After a rest in Edinburgh, where, passing a music-shop, I heard some blind man playing a mazurka of mine... -- Frederic Chopin
Sometimes I feel like a one man crusade against the devaluation of music in America and culture in the arts. -- Terry Bozzio
You like music, Mr. Gurgeh?" Hamin asked, leaning over to the man. Gurgeh nodded. "Well, a little does no harm. -- Iain Banks
A brave man's hand can speak for itself, it does not even need a woman's love to hear its music. -- Bram Stoker
I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music. -- Kris Allen
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is still a young man's game, so we have to stay young. Music allows you to do that, especially rock'n'roll. -- Eddie Vedder
Morning work! By the blushes of Aurora and the music of Memnon, what should be man's morning work in this world? -- Henry David Thoreau
O Music! language of the soul, Of love, of God to man; Bright beam from heaven thrilling, That lightens sorrow's weight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Playing the sax and then enjoying jazz music man. It's like I learned how to find words inside of the beat. -- Rakim
My music is the essence of Detroit. At one time, we were the center of the world, man - Motor City. -- Big Sean
I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud. -- Marlon Wayans
I feel close to people like Jimi Hendrix because I connect with his music. Not the man but what he did. -- Henry Rollins
Music can noble hints impart, Engender fury, kindle love, With unsuspected eloquence can move, And manage all the man with secret art. -- Joseph Addison
Every category has its snobs: music, books, movies. There are so many things a man is only pressured into liking or disliking. -- Criss Jami
Freddy Demann (Shakira's Manager) is a man that knows the world of music. And I know that I am in good hands. -- Shakira
When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man. -- Gregg Allman
I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here! -- Sia Furler
Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world. -- Barbra Streisand
Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. -- Samuel Butler
There was one man who was interested in the color of music, the connection between light and music, and that was Einstein. -- Leon Theremin
I know Eric Engerbretson to be a man of integrity who is firmly committed to the artful balance of music and ministry. -- Phil Keaggy
Music is only a means to an end - it is not the end. The concern is with the condition of man -- Abdullah Ibrahim
Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'. -- Steve Brown
There is no music like a little river's . . . It takes the mind out-of-doors . . . and . . . it quiets a man down like saying his prayers. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
At the upcoming Grammy Awards, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony will perform together as the first time, as man and wife. Hopefully music. -- Tina Fey
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man? -- Henry David Thoreau
My loathings are simple. stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. My pleasures are the most intense known to man: writing and butterfly hunting. -- Vladimir Nabokov
We've made elevator music of Jesus Christ. We've made Him the most boring, bland, blah person; and He was the most revolutionary man. -- John Eldredge
If Pac-Man had affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven. -- Walter Savage Landor
the old man dance, where I tense up, shuffle my feet intermittently, complain about the music volume, and sit down for a rest. -- David Thorne
When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin. -- Richard Steele
The profound meaning of music's essential aim... is to produce a communion, a union of man with his fellow man with the Supreme Being -- Igor Stravinsky
Music is the same to me as it was to Goethe - a pleasant noise. I am an eye man, not an ear man. -- Fritz Lang
Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time. -- Igor Stravinsky
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. -- William Shakespeare
If some of those people who wanted to ban Beethoven's music could hear the music that's being played today, wow, what would they do, man? -- Smokey Robinson
The man who disparages music as a luxury and non-essential is doing the nation an injury. Music now, more than ever before, is a national need. -- Woodrow Wilson
The Medicine Man, taking his music with him, is passing quietly into the Great Silence, where the old songs were "Received in Dreams" by "inner-plane communication." -- Frances Densmore
And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that. -- Eva Ibbotson
I never was the front man in any bands I played in when I was in college, and I always learned music by myself at home. -- James Vincent McMorrow
Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. -- Zhuangzi
Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life. -- Fernando Botero
"I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man. -- Charles Dickens
I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever. -- Malik Bendjelloul
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation. -- Marguerite Duras
I dont think Sugar Man is a music doc any more than The Social Network is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever. -- Malik Bendjelloul
I had an old man moment the other day. I went into Abercrombie & Fitch to get some jeans and the music was so loud I couldn't stay. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software. -- Yukihiro Matsumoto
If interviews are just interviews or if music is just music, why are we even doing it? You only get so many hours in a lifetime, man. -- Ben Harper
You see more and more why healing is happening through music. It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration -- Kenneth G. Mills
Art is a jealous mistress; and if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will be patient, kind, faithful and true To a man who loves music a man who loves art Respect's the spirit world and thinks with his heart -- India.Arie
If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music? -- Confucius
My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music. -- Yoko Ono

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