With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. We did not want to come off like white kids trying to play black music from 100 years ago so a great way to distract them was by dressing in red, white and black.
~ Jack White
A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.
~ Moby
I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.
~ Corey Taylor
It was amazing and inspiring to see so many people come together through music to aid the great state of Vermont.
~ Trey Anastasio
To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good!
~ Florenz Ziegfeld
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
~ Maurice Sendak
I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
~ Sarah Mclachlan
Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows.
~ Bill Hicks
Pop changes week to week, month to month. But great music is like literature.
~ Ravi Shankar
I'm always going to get more of a charge playing Chicago than I will Duluth or some place like that. Just because of the history and the people there are way more knowledgeable than a lot of other cities. It's an amazing music scene with some great bands and great musicians.
~ Matt Cameron
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact - men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.
~ Billy Graham
Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.
~ Johnny Ball
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
~ Doris Lessing
We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as abstract expressionism - are daily devalued by commercial art.
~ Andy Warhol
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
~ Peace Pilgrim
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
~ Will Durant
After 3 years, I left the army at the ripe old age of 20, but I'd like to think some of the skills are still with me. I'm great at physical movement; I can still remember Morse code, and perhaps most importantly, I can fold my socks up into little balls with smiley faces.
~ Rhys Darby
Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
~ Marshall Mcluhan
There's a great deal to say in the Bible about the signs we're to watch for, and when these signs all converge at one place we can be sure that we're close to the end of the age.
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
~ Tom Brokaw
Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
~ Martha Gellhorn
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
~ C. S. Lewis
Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
~ Jonathan Swift
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
~ Walker Percy
Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
~ Larry Elder
Cable is a dynamic and highly innovative industry, providing cutting edge services and content that Americans love. The broadband platform the industry has deployed is a critical part of the infrastructure needed to realize our national ambition to be a great nation in the Information Age.
~ Michael K. Powell
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.
~ Robert Harris
A lot of movie stars are not great actors; they're just very good-looking. And when they start to age and they don't have the looks any more, then it's over.
~ Michael Caine
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
~ Robertson Davies
There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.
~ Joseph Edward Kurtz
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.
~ Muhammad Yunus
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
~ Bertrand Russell
A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
